1. Is the West “sexually decadent”? @TAJackson20 describes the West as a “fuck party”, and not in a good way. But Boccaccio, Juvenal, and Chaucer all featured plenty of fucking in their works. I think the West has been a “fuck party” for sometime.
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6. We are surrounded by sexualised images, but we’re more andogrynised and desexualised than ever. We also have more things to distract us from sex. We’re too rich for it. In this sense, our decadence lies in not having enough sex rather than too much.
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7. The sexual market place is bad, and I certainly complain about it. But I only complain, as with most moralised comaplining, when I haven’t had sex in a while. Some people take this moralisation too far and into the realm of self-disgust or disgust with the flesh.
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8. They then imagine that people were “pure” in the past, possibly due to religion. And even that’s silly, the jokes about nuns and monks fucking each other existed for a reason— though obviously many were sincere. The sexual market place is wrong, but not bc sex is “dirty”...
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9...though it’s fun to pretend it is sometimes. It’s wrong bc it produces some perverse results from a societal perspective. But it’s not the fact people are having sex that is *the* problem, and only an immature or a sexually unfulfilled mind would think so.
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10. The disgust at sexually decadence as “too much sex” ends in a nihilistic wish to destroy everything to end the “impurity”. That’s just unhealthy. Yes, there’s a lot wrong with how sex happens in the West. But you have to separate out your own frustrations to think about it...
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11. ...And don’t think that people in your idealised past didn’t do everything that happens now, or that orgies or lesbianism or what ever you’ve decided is “perverse” can’t coincide with moments of high civilisation.
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