I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
Posted on 12/02/2002 10:45:47 PM PST by JohnHuang2
The homosexual lobby isn't merely interested in that prerogative for themselves but for a loosening or rather a elimination of any boundaries concering sexuality for anyone at any age, and in any fashion.
Amidst all the doom and gloom about the economy these days, comes a ray of sunshine! The New York Times on Nov. 19 carried this headline: "Sex Museum Reports Profitability." The story begins, "In its first six weeks the Museum of Sex at 233 Fifth Avenue has drawn more than 15,000 visitors, well over the projections of the number needed to make a profit, reports Daniel Gluck, the founder and executive director."
So what? There's a museum. It has exhibits that draw enough people to make a profit. Move on, folks, there's nothing to see here.
Doesn't that just warm your heart? It sure does mine. The story goes on to tell us that the big draw for these thousands of people is the opening exhibit entitled "NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America" and, further, that the catalogue of this first show is "boldly illustrated." I'll bet!
So what? Is that somehow an illegitimate topic for a museum centered around sex? Did she think they'd somehow entertain a display detailing the history of cubism?
New Yorkers complain that their city gets a bad rap as the Sodom and Gomorrah of the USA – yet, here they are trumpeting Gotham as catalyst for "transforming sex in America." As proof, the exhibit features pornographic videos of the fetishist trades, displays of 19th-century gay resorts in the Bowery, and a celebration of "the public and orgiastic sex that turned into a health disaster" known as AIDS. Hard to imagine why any city would want to take credit for that!
Sounds to me like it's a lot more historical than titillating. And to use the term 'celebrating' seems flagrantly dishonest, unless there were to be an exact description of the context in which there were portraying the subject matter.
In an earlier story, the Times told us that the "Sex Museum says it's here to educate." Its first curator, who lasted only a few months, explained, "The loftier mission was exploring the sexual subcultures of the city and how they influenced the mainstream."
So what?
What an insult to the culturally rich New York City that excavating gutters and exhibiting depravity is promoted as a "loftier mission."
Typical self-righteous prudery. They're a sex museum. They have exhibits about sexual things.
But the erstwhile curator is not alone in perceiving pornography and sexual perversity as educational. Some of our finest universities are touting courses in the curricula of women's studies, cultural history and sociology that require students to view pornography and study all sorts of sexual practices, then, write term papers about the content as though it was a legitimate focus of academic inquiry. In more than one university, student-made pornographic videos are acceptable as final projects.
A. Sexuality is a legitimate area of study and inquiry.
B. University curricula have nothing to do with the museum.
It's no wonder that a 34-year-old man who graduated in fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania with a business degree from the Wharton School, after having made a fortune in the software business would think that a Sex Museum is a legitimate business. That's Daniel Gluck's pedigree.
So what? He was trained in business. He saw a niche no one else was exploiting. He took a chance, ran his business correctly and now is making a profit.
Once the groves of academia legitimized what once were considered societal sexual taboos in the name of academic freedom, it was only minutes before we had the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developing and disseminating sex-ed material to middle schools that explain how to protect your health while "fisting," "rimming" and performing cunnilingus with your sex partner. (If you don't know what these sexual practices are, call the Sex Museum of New York.)
Irrelevant to the topic of the museum.
And let's not forget the teen-age "health" website called Go Ask Alice, created by none other than the very distinguished Columbia University and recommended to children by the American Library Association. That's where kids can go to find out how to wash the blood off their cat-of-nine-tails after engaging in sadomasochistic sex – among every other sexual perversion imaginable, and some that are unimaginable.
Irrelevant to the museum.
The poison has seeped so far into the culture that a few weeks ago the Tucson campus of the University of Arizona was welcoming pimps, prostitutes, porn stars and exotic dancers into their classrooms to talk with students about "careers" as sex workers, and to demonstrate that working your way through school as a lap dancer, stripper, "escort" or actor in a pornographic film should not be considered shameful. Maybe not. But the University of Arizona should certainly be ashamed of itself!
Irrelevant to the museum.
I urged parents of students to withhold their next tuition payment and alums to withhold their contributions until they got a promise from the college that it would never again allow such a "sexual festival" to be held on the campus. It's because people don't do that – don't speak up courageously and powerfully – that these things keep happening and keep getting more and more outrageous and offensive. Those activists and special-interest groups that gain an advantage from having "all the walls come tumbling down" are well organized and well financed.
Irrelevant to the museum.
(20 people anonymously invested several million dollars to endow the Sex Museum of New York.) The rest of you just avert your eyes while you wring your hands.
They're called 'investors'. They utilize something called 'capital'. It in turn goes into running a 'business'. Why am I not suprised she doesn't understand this, and is unable to divorce this concept and its application to the museum from her problems with the specific course subjects at universities?
I say "you," rather than "we," because I'm on my soapbox day after day, hour after hour, bringing all of this to your attention and "givin' 'em hell," as best I can. Where are the rest of decent Americans?
Giving them hell in a dishonest, meandering and purposefully opaque manner.
If "Dr." Laura didn't exist, we'd have to invent her.
Evil spreads when good people do nothing.
I say "you," rather than "we," because I'm on my soapbox day after day, hour after hour, bringing all of this to your attention and "givin' 'em hell," as best I can. Where are the rest of decent Americans?
I believe that her reward in Heaven will be great.
No, I'm saying that all human behavior is chosen and that is where we differ from animals.
That we are completely blank slates and that we can like, dislike, and desire to act in any way we want?
I'm sorry, but you aren't making any sense.
I agree, to participate in any sexual act is a choice...
Exactly, they chose to behave this way.
...but is the desire to enjoy such activity chosen?
Yes, it can be.
Can you chose to be sexually attracted to a member of your own sex?
Yes, you can. It would, of course, require that you adopt a moral standard completely removed from the norm but it can be done.
You could even say that this concept forms the very moral foundation of Western Civilization.
Sort of irrelevant since it is only the behavior that can affect others, isn't it?
Good job! Some great men are known by the enemies they make.
Shoot the messenger, ignore the message.
I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
I'll consider the viewpoints on their merits. Personally I'm neither impressed nor disgusted by her persona.
I'm tired of all the perversion, frankly.
If people had normal sex as it was intended, they wouldn't have sought out perversion. Sexual lust drives one into perversion.
Not all sex is driven by lust.
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