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The Emotional Corrosion of Casual Sex
http://www.thetrumpet.com ^ | From the February 2011 Trumpet Print Edition ยป | Philadelphia Church of God

Posted on 12/20/2010 6:48:08 PM PST by Maelstorm

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21 posted on 12/20/2010 8:51:14 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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To: Maelstorm

I have TONS of casual sex: I casually walk up to my wife and ask her for sex and she casually tells me to go away.

Happens all the time in my house.


22 posted on 12/20/2010 9:07:20 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: armordog99
I still think about her to this day and still get sad. Even though I am married to a wonderful woman and we love each other dearly.

I think every man has one girl from his youth that stays with him, no matter how real the relationship was.

23 posted on 12/20/2010 9:40:53 PM PST by Minn
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To: Maelstorm

I’ve often pondered the resemblance that old married couples begin to share and the Biblical “one flesh,” that perhaps physical intimacy actually produces not just an emotional bond but a literal, physical one.

Extend this observation or suspicion if you will, to multiple, casual sexual encounters. Not healthy, confused immune response, all manner of physical and emotional maladies ... which is pretty much what we’re seeing after decades of detached casual sexual encounters in much of the populace as a whole, isn’t it?


24 posted on 12/20/2010 9:57:16 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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"You never forget your first girl."

Cheers!

25 posted on 12/20/2010 10:18:15 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Maelstorm

thanks for the post.


26 posted on 12/20/2010 10:39:52 PM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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28 posted on 12/21/2010 6:03:55 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Thanks for the ping. Excellent article.


29 posted on 12/21/2010 6:37:32 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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There is a chapter in this book about pop culture that explains it far better than I:

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30 posted on 12/21/2010 7:15:40 AM PST by jazminerose (o)
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To: Maelstorm

BTTT. Thanks for posting!

Merry Christmas!


31 posted on 12/21/2010 7:55:15 AM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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32 posted on 12/21/2010 8:40:14 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Sherman Logan

If so, then being forced to engage in sex should be no more damaging or desctructive than being forced to sit and drink coffee.

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Very strange, almost bizarre, take on this topic.

Is there a difference between freely giving money to charity and armed robbery? If so, what is that difference? Then substitute casual consentual sex and rape into the equation. I think the difference will become clearer to you.


33 posted on 12/21/2010 9:01:03 AM PST by dmz
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To: A_perfect_lady

That’s a good point. I never thought of that.

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Really? You can really equate casual and consentual sex and rape?

The expression of violence in rape doesn’t separate them much in your mind?


34 posted on 12/21/2010 9:04:32 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz

I freely admit the idea has its limitations, but I still find it odd that an activity can be considered so meaningless as to be engaged in casually, and at the same time so deeply meaningful that being forced to engage in it is devastating.


35 posted on 12/21/2010 9:21:47 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: dmz

I do believe you misunderstood my point.

Rape = sex + violence (or threat thereof).

Armed robbery = financial transaction + violence.

My point is not that rape = consensual sex. It is that the conventional wisdom is that violence + sex is more destructive to the victim than violence + anything else.

If sex is, or should be, no big deal, so that engaging in it casually is appropriate, then this equation is imbalanced.

I am not in favor of rape, I am opposed to casual sex, and I think most of those indulging in it are deceiving themselves about its effects. YMMV.


36 posted on 12/21/2010 9:30:47 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Maelstorm

And it starts with parents and children being told that masturbation is perfectly harmless and natural. It is the first step in setting people up psychologically to associate sex as empty pleasure devoid of human interaction. It also may be a precursor to homosexuality as it is sexual pleasure acquired through same sex (self) manipulation.


37 posted on 12/21/2010 3:40:24 PM PST by Bellflower (All meaning is in The LORD.)
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Ah, was going to get this one. Excellent article and absolutely true.


38 posted on 12/21/2010 3:48:32 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: wagglebee

Seen it plenty of times in friends and coworkers.

Sex was not meant to be random.


39 posted on 12/21/2010 5:16:29 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: dmz

I don’t think you understood his point.


40 posted on 12/22/2010 5:37:54 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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