For the longest time, one of the highest goals of civilization was to raise the human race above the status of the lower animals, especially in their social behavior.
This is what led to art, architecture and the academy.
Men and women alike reveled in their ability to move around in complex geometric ways, shunning the paths to the baser pleasures in order to define a systematic plan for community living and interaction.
But there were those who sought more control and laid down rules on what art and architecture should be and what the public square should see and we ended up with the Victorian age.
Now we crowd the randy dogs out of our way, kick the wallowing pigs to the side and leap into the trough of gluttony and the bed of iniquity with all our appetites in raging force to gorge and rut and muck about with unashamed gusto.
Now we crowd the randy dogs out of our way, kick the wallowing pigs to the side and leap into the trough of gluttony and the bed of iniquity with all our appetites in raging force to gorge and rut and muck about with unashamed gusto.
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Sounds like fun!
Are you suggesting that the trend towards accepting contraception is a step back for humanity? If anything, I would think that the ability for us to control our reproductive outcomes would put us ABOVE the level of animals, who are helpless and unable to separate the act of sex from reproduction.