[Vision2020] Nudity and Christianity revisited

[Art Deco]

Robert,

You may be very right.

When I was in high school some of the daughters of the local religious
professional were discreetly, but very, very generous with their sexual
favors.

Some of the anti-gay messages posted on this forum, appearing in letters to
the editor, and being spewed from certain local pulpits would lead one to
believe that most of these anti-gay, anti-nudity, so-called pundits are
suffering from extraordinarily severe cases of reaction formation****.

Also, one wonders if these same pundits' conjugal relations are so otiose
and dull that they must titillate themselves by contemplating and
fantasizing about what goes on in other people's bedrooms, using their
superstitious beliefs as a cover for their more natural impulses of
curiosity and sexual gratification.

****reaction formation   n.
A psychological defense mechanism by which an objectionable impulse is
expressed in an opposite or contrasting behavior.
[American Heritage Dictionary]


Wayne Fox



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Dickow" <dickow@uidaho.edu>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:28 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Nudity and Christianity revisited


> 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
>
>
>
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