Posted on 01/27/2007 9:04:27 AM PST by do the dhue
A young disabled man who receives care for his life-limiting illness at a hospice run by a nun spoke yesterday of his decision to use a prostitute to experience sex before he dies.
Sister Frances Dominica gave her support to 22-year-old Nick Wallis, who was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Sufferers usually die by their thirties.
Mr Wallis told staff at the Douglas House hospice in Oxford that he wanted to experience sexual intercourse. He explained that he had hoped to form an intimate and loving relationship with a woman, but his disability had acted as a barrier.
He told The Daily Telegraph: "It was a decision two years in the making and I discussed it with my carers and my parents. Telling my mother and father was the hardest part, but in the end they gave me their support.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Course, I don't think it should be illegal, anyway.
Sometimes people can be so anal about sex.
Some special appreciates that. :^)
If I recall my old video tapes, Ginger Lynn was pretty anal about sex.
I've never felt, or been made to feel, guilty for having the urge. It whether or not, and how, one chooses to act on that urge that is at question here.
I know, but I gave the guy a hand job anyways.
Hildy, I'm right with YOU on this one!!!!
:)
You are right. Compassion is a circus, as anyone knows who has been involved in living it.
I'm sorry, but that is ridiculous. I am not a male and I have urges ALL THE TIME!!! It's not just for men. And just because we have these urges does not mean they should be acted upon whenever we feel like it. Sex is a gift from God and with it comes responsibilities. Not only did he have sex outside of marriage, I'm assuming there was some form of birth control involved(killing that whole "male animal's job is to procreate" argument). From my Catholic view, this is also a grave sin. He's not only hurting his own soul but those of all the others involved.
Maybe God wanted him to stand up for boys all over and be an example that the mind is stronger than the body.
There's nothing to feel guilty about. Having urges is perfectly normal. A man that can control those urges for his future wife makes him the strongest and most desirable man out there. Comparing a male human to a male animal is a huge put-down to men all over the world. Saying you expect nothing less of them is offensive. Men have minds.
I'm still sickened but the congratulatory posts to this young man.
But there's more. I like this (long quote, but worth it, I think):
“True eros tends to rise in ecstasy towards the Divine, to lead us beyond ourselves . . . [on] a path of ascent, renunciation, purification and healing.
“Even if eros is at first mainly covetous . . . a fascination for the great promise of happiness in drawing near to the other, it [becomes] less and less concerned with itself, increasingly seeks the happiness of the other, is concerned more and more with the beloved, bestows itself and wants ‘to be there’ for the other.
The Greeks—not unlike other cultures—considered eros principally as a kind of intoxication, the overpowering of reason by a “divine madness” which tears man away from his finite existence and enables him, in the very process of being overwhelmed by divine power, to experience supreme happiness.
This attitude found expression in fertility cults, part of which was the “sacred” prostitution which flourished in many temples. Eros was thus celebrated as divine power, as fellowship with the Divine.
[Yet, this is] a warped and destructive form of it, because this counterfeit divinization of eros actually strips it of its dignity and dehumanizes it. Indeed, the prostitutes in the temple, who had to bestow this divine intoxication, were not treated as human beings and persons, but simply used as a means of arousing “divine madness”: Far from being goddesses, they were human persons being exploited. An intoxicated and undisciplined eros, then, is not an ascent in “ecstasy” towards the Divine, but a fall, a degradation of man.
Two things emerge clearly from this rapid overview. First, there is a certain relationship between love and the Divine: Love promises infinity, eternity—a reality far greater and totally other than our everyday existence. Yet we have also seen that the way to attain this goal is not simply by submitting to instinct. Purification and growth in maturity are called for; and these also pass through the path of renunciation. Far from rejecting or “poisoning” eros, they heal it and restore its true grandeur.
It is neither the spirit alone nor the body alone that loves: It is man, the person, a unified creature composed of body and soul, who loves. Only when both dimensions are truly united does man attain his full stature. Only thus is love—eros—able to mature and attain its authentic grandeur. ... Yet the contemporary way of exalting the body is deceptive. Eros, reduced to pure sex, has become a commodity, a mere thing to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself becomes a commodity.
This is hardly man’s great “yes” to the body. On the contrary, he now considers his body and his sexuality as the purely material part of himself, to be used and exploited at will. Nor does he see it as an arena for the exercise of his freedom, but as a mere object that he attempts, as he pleases, to make both enjoyable and harmless. Here we are actually dealing with a debasement of the human body: No longer is it a vital expression of our whole being, but it is more or less relegated to the purely biological sphere.
How might love be experienced so that it can fully realize its human and divine promise? ...[What is needed is] the experience of a love which involves a real discovery of the other, moving beyond the selfish character that prevailed earlier. Love now becomes concern and care for the other.
No longer is it self-seeking, a sinking in the intoxication of happiness; instead it seeks the good of the beloved... eros directs man towards marriage, to a boneros directs man towards marriage, to a bond which is unique and definitive; thus, and only thus, does it fulfill its deepest purpose."
Isn't she the one who was always arrears in her bills?
Your screen name is disgusting. So are the pictures you post.
I'll be succumbing to my base, animalistic, godless caveman urges between the hours of 10 to 11:30, God Willing ;)
I'm sorry, but that is ridiculous. I am not a male and I have urges ALL THE TIME!!! It's not just for men
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HMMMMM, please continue...
Your post #2 did not offend me. Believe it or not, I have a sense of humor. I do get sick of the world's view of sex as a right instead of a gift from God. Reading about sex in the media makes it look so absolutely ugly and disgusting.
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Your mind is always in the gutter. ;o)
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