[Vision2020] Nudity and Christianity revisited

Robert Dickow Robert Dickow" <dickow@uidaho.edu
Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:28:11 -0800


I have a theory.

'Fundamentalist' Christians et al are really kinda horny.

Now, to explain:

I used to teach at Asbury College in Kentucky as an adjunct professor. It
was a very strict Christian school, where sexual things where very
repressed. Girls had to where long dresses. Boys couldn't walk on the same
side of the street were the girls' dorm was located, etc. etc. Strict
curfews etc. You get the picture. But the joke was that just about everyone
there knew you could find young folks 'making out' in just about every broom
closet you opened at any time of day on campus. And this is no exaggeration.

My theory is that by repressing, through doctrinaire/ 'moral' grounds and so
on-- 
the outward conventions of sexual expression you actually enhance the
desirability of those things, body parts for example. It's a bit like
forbidden fruit. And
that's the ticket! Fundamentalist Christians are really interested in sex
and they actually have found a way to make sex even more fun, although they
would be the last to admit it.

Hence the fundamentalist/puritan abhorance to bare breasts in public and the
like. If we liberals had our way, bare breasts would become commonplace and
boring...as in Denmark. If lots of these sexy things that turn people on
become acceptable and non-noteworthy, these sexual stimuli become more
rarified
in the environment, if you will.

Now, we liberals wouldn't want THAT would we? Let's keep those sexual taboos
alive. Ban nudity!! I want to keep the excitement alive! Vive la thrill!
Hubba hubba.

Bob Dickow
horny bastard