Posts by Rich Lock
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
If you catch my socking my puppet, be sure to point it out.
Already established you should go to your own room for that.Sometimes. Sometimes not (link sfw).
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to James Butler,
You keep dropping hints. It's intriguing, which I guess means it's working.
A teaser campaign? Are we back to talking about sex?
The thrill of the chase, the coquettish, tantalising dropping of hints. Cautious advances, initially rebuffed before yielding in your strong, manly arms...
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to BenWilson,
Heavy metal has a deeply operatic vocal style.
I have recently spent far, far too much time thinking about developing a metal opera based on the music of Black Sabbath, telling the story of our hero Ozzy, a young lad from Wolverhapton who missed out on the swinging sixties, but who just wants to rock out. The first act charts his triumphant rise from grinding poverty to fame, success and drugs, and the inevitable spiral into addiction and near-madness, before being replaced by Ronnie James Dio (boo! hiss!). The second act would chart his rise from the depths, his meeting and marriage to his manager Sharon, and his triumphant solo career.
Seriously, I've got it all worked out. It's called 'Sabbath bloody Sabbath'. All I need is some funding. Who's in?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Deborah,
I’m just saying that OPERA is awesome, and for most people it is or could be the source of great happiness, so for some people who think it’s all a bit meh they could benefit from thinking more broadly and adventurously about what OPERA can be and what it can mean to them.
My parents were mad keen on classical music, and thought that my sister and I should be, too. So we spent many long and tedious weekend matinee sessions and evenings being dragged to various operas and concert performances.
As soon as I could exercise free will and spending power, I bought my first Iron Maiden album, and rapidly progressed from there to Slayer, Metallica, Black Sabbath, and so on.
It's taken around 25 years for me to start revisiting classical music, and acknowledge that perhaps, but only just perhaps, there is some merit in 'Don Giovanni', 'Tosca', et al.
So, the moral of the story is: if you don't want your kids to grow up as pervy deviants like me, don't force the chocolate on them. Or something...?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Well one very good reason for me to not have children is my incredible temptation to mess with their brains ... because you can.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lilith __,
Mmm, chocolate.
That’s the most reasonable thing anybody’s said all day! Something we can all believe in. :-)Northern Conservative 40% Minimum Cocoa Solid Council of 1879, or Southern Great Lakes Milk Ministry of 1912?
Answer carefully, potential unnatural acts heretic scum!
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Ross Mason,
Do fish do it for pleasure? Do birds? Do monkeys? Humans certainly do. Therefore one might assume we humans enjoy it more because....well....we can think about it, reason about and most importantly talk about it. All the above can't. I think we can safely say that all the above "do it" mainly to propagate the species.
There are plenty of animals that masturbate for no other reason than seemingly their own pleasure, including monkeys.
Much as I'd like to google some references for you, I'm at work. I'm not googling that with a firewall in place...
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Danielle,
Feminists who are... struggling to describe them, here. "Non-sex-positive"?
Ok, and there are a quite a few countries and US states where some sex acts are illegal. But I'd argue that they're mostly outliers (as in Alabama =/= 'the west'), and a lot of the background to the illegality is bound up inextricably with the predominant religion.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I'd make the point that it is by no means just religions that seem to have an interest in telling other people how to have sex. And why how they are doing it is wrong.
Possibly an imagination/memory fail on my part, but could you give some examples? Beyond the obvious one of laws relating to underage sex (which isn't really a 'how to have sex'), I'm struggling to think of formal or informal organisations outside religion that are proscriptive in the way you suggest.
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"A woman is beautiful to look upon, contaminating to the touch, and deadly to keep."
"All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable."
"Woman was created from a bent rib and is therefore defective: And since through this defect she is an imperfect animal, she always deceives."
From the Malleus Maleficarum