Posted on 04/03/2006 8:47:05 PM PDT by twippo
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Cyber-sex, war, and erection-inducing drugs are a recipe for a more socially inept, violent culture, according to a panel of top US sex experts.
The concern was raised as researchers discussed "The Future of Sex" at an unprecedented summit near Santa Fe, New Mexico, late last week.
"The de-interaction of sex is something I worry about," said Julia Heiman, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.
"If we go too much in the direction of virtual sex, what's left out? How you get along in a personal sphere is getting short shrift," Heiman said in a conference call with reporters.
While cyber-sex fueled by drugs such as Viagra might be tempting, it is "built for disappointment" because real life can seldom compete with fantasies, panelists said.
"The breakneck speed of technology development allows one to create one's own erotic ideal and a multi-sensory experience of virtual sex," said Heiman.
"If young people are learning in this fashion, what about the very personal aspect of sex in which you have to interact with the other person?"
A compounding factor will likely be pharmaceutical companies eagerly expanding the array of drugs that enhance sexual activity, Heiman said.
Erection-stimulating drugs such as Viagra could exacerbate the "individualization" of sex, said professor John Gagnon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
"The other part of the couple may not be consenting to the erection," Gagnon said. "The assumption is the woman will be happy if the fellow arrives with one."
Technology and Viagra-type medicine combine to push people out of social relationships and reduce their capacity to relate to each other, according to Gagnon.
"Like one simulates a bombing run," Gagnon said. "It distances you from the person being hit by the bomb."
Another potentially disturbing ingredient in the mix is that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and ensuing "war on terror" are inuring society to violence, Heiman said.
"The tolerance of violence may be making a comeback," Heiman said. "And when that happens, sexual violence will be tolerated."
Technology is pushing people apart just as online dating services bring others together, according to panelists.
The Internet is increasingly a place for people with shared interests to form online communities and for people to seek dates or mates, said Pepper Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington.
"Every country, no matter how undeveloped, has dating sites," Schwartz said. "My experience is people want to get offline as quick as possible. People are looking for partners, looking for love."
The Internet could also serve as a trove of information dispelling misconceptions about sexual lifestyles, health and trends, according to panelists.
The researchers, who joined about 100 peers for the three-day conference, hoped the coming decade would see more research into the roles of race, medicine, age, technology and political conservatism on sexuality.
"When one gets into the predicting the future business," Gagnon said jokingly. "One gets into a situation where you are mostly wrong."
LOL. So, good! I seized the correct picture! I think of all of those Anna Kournikova emails I refused to open...I had no idea what she looked like!...:)
The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964760908/sr=8-2/qid=1144124455/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-6903742-7249504?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Here is a well-referenced essay, if you don't have time to read that like me:
http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/lively.html
Start with the premise that marriage and fatherhood civilizes men. Wouldn't sex divorced from marriage and fatherhood have the opposite, "barbarianizing" effect? Is there a link between fornication and abortion and the increase in crime in our society?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Thanks. Dr. Judith Reisman's website has many articles and white papers documenting the effect of Kinseyan sexual philosophy on society, and she references the homosexuality/Nazism connection. Consider that the first peoples to condemn homosexuality were the Jews that Hitler hated.
The New York Post wouldn't've let this slip by.
Maria Sharapova
I had the passing thought that Hitler's clients in Vienna may have been Jewish? No idea if that's true, but maybe it fueled his hate for them.
Someday I'll find time to read a whole book or two...
...who've never won any games.
I guess winning Wimbledon doesn't count?
She's 18 years old, and has won 11 WTA tour singles titles and 3 doubles titles. She just lost in the final match in Miami, in fact.
Are you off your meds? Posting a picture is sick? Since when? You are joking right? If you aren't joking then you are the sick one if you see something wrong in a picture of a beautiful woman, fully clothed I might add.
It is quite probable twippo- to get to your statement on pornography,studies have not got a lot of coverage. Studies on the relationship that pornography has with it's absolute effect on human beings. The courts seem to be aware though, of it's effects re child molestation. A man in Toronto murdered a poor little girl two years ago. He was into pornography,right up to her abduction. The police had his computer seized.
Though late in posting, I could not help but continue. Part of my interest in genealogy is the lives of complex figures. I have done something of Hitler. He revered his mother,Klara Pozl Hitler. She died when he was about 14 years. It was cancer. Hitler was distraught. The consequences in those days must have been severe. Yet, it appears that the Jewish doctor did all he could to help. There appears no blame on their doctor, by the Hitler family.
Hitler's life poverty stricken in Vienna is in itself fascinating. No excuse though at all, for the terrible carnage he wrought.
If anyone could run down Hitler's true grandfather, that person would be sought after indeed. No one knows who that paternal grandfather was. One theory of his personna is of his rejection by the arts scholarship. He banked everything on being acepted by the academy in Vienna. On the lighter side, I wish they had rolled out the red carpet. Who knows?
Now, get back on your meds.
Reminds me of this classic "blast from the past" 1969:
Source: http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/intheyea.htm
ARTIST: Zager and Evans
TITLE: In the Year 2525
Lyrics and Chords
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive they may find
/ Em / D / C B7 /
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa-oh
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again, whoa-oh
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin', whoa-oh
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535 {fade}
Posting a photo of a fully clad tennis player is wrong? You just prove my point. There is something wrong with you and I am sure YOU need some type of medication or professional help. Obviously you have a screw loose somewhere. Thanks and have a nice day.
Marriage was then demanded by most women- or else- nothing. LOL
I have two daughters and most men do not fool this old lad.
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