Posted on 02/23/2002 6:23:46 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Of course there is more to this. His thought is not completed in just that brief passage - but it's something to think about until I add the rest of the story.
Well, I've often been treated better by some "whores" than by some so-called "ladies".
Really?
"Rape n. 1. The crime of forcing a person (esp.a female) to submit to sexual intercourse. -- tr. v. 1. To force (a female) to submit to sexual intercourse." -- The American Heritage Dictionary
If desire for sex is, as you say, a biological imperative exempt from any ethical boundaries, then why shouldn't a man commit rape? In fact, according to your claims, I can't see where a man without a willing sexual partner would have any choice but to do so, since he is a slave to his hormones with no free will.
No such thing. Girls who sleep with married man as his ' whore on the side' have no decency.
That said I do admit to chasing every female who was possibly available and attractive to me when I was single. I never, knowingly, included married women in that pursuit and I did at least look for a wedding ring and ask. I further, admit to looking and appreciating the many beautiful women everyone sees every day.
Were I not to do that I would have to check to see if I was still breathing. When I am asked what people should look for in a spouse I will usually answer that the most important things are shared values and sense of personal honor. That and love of your spouse will sustain you through the bad times and there will always be bad times, unfortunately.
Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
There are two reasons why I do not want to deal with Christian marriage. The first is that Christian doctrines on this subject are extremely unpopular. The second is that I have never been married myself, (he was married later in life after this book was written) and therefore, can only speak at it secondhand. But in spite of that, I feel I can hardly leave the subject out in an account of Christian morals.
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words "one flesh" would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says a lock and a key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument. The inventor of the human machine was telling us that its two halves, the male and the female, were made to be combined together in pairs, not simply on the sexual level, but totally combined. The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. The Christian attitude does not mean that there is anything wrong about sexual pleasure, any more than about the pleasure of eating. It means that you must not isolate that pleasure and try to get it by itself, any more than you ought to try to get the pleasures of tasting without swallowing and digesting, by chewing things and spitting them out again.
I know that you're lying. Possibly to yourself, if you're a complete moron, but most certainly to everyone else.
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