Sex IS for PLEASURE
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Hello stilllearning,
Hi Lottree
I hope you are well. It is good to be in dialogue with you again.I am fine thanks Good to have you back.
3 little ones and a big boss and the world at large demand lot of time.
Ah the joy of fatherfood -)
It makes you feel you want to be single again! DFor their smile and laughter I am sure it is worth all the hardwork-)
No doubt we will write the fairy story togather wink
reardsCan't wait!
We can perhaps tackle it from the teenage pregnancies angle. That will pull the heart strings of few readers winkRegards,
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I didn't say sex is bad... I'm just saying that lets not just to conclusions about what we'll have in heaven... we're making lots of assumptions that lead to conclusions we like, instead of just holding to the text.
Yes, I understand. Thanks Claurianta.
Regards,
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Hello Heart,
Salam,
Why is sex considered by many people/muslims taboo to talk about?It was not like this in the begining I think. It was when the Ulema of the Islamic Empire gained power around 10th century that they decided that sex is something to be shamed off. I think they felt threatened by the power of female sexuality so they decided to suppress it. This suppression is still apparant today. The Islamic Scholars in Egypt have issued a fatwa recently to say that to have sex completely naked annuls the marriage or looking at the gentials while having sex also annuls the marriage! You can't help but laugh at such attitudes.
Sex and Sexuality was quite free in India until the Mughals took over the subcontinent and destroyed many of the temples that celebrated human sexuality. After centuries of Mughal rule Indians themselves became conservative about sex. And by the time the British took over, the Christian missionaries ensured that sex was seen as something abohorrent to the new converts. The Christian attitudes towards sex has always been an enigma because Christian Priests looked on sex with such loathing that it was irrational. But since the Enlightenment in the Christian World attitudes towards sex has changed completely.
Muslim world will have to go through a similiar enlightenement before they too can see sex as natural and healthy part of human existence.
Regards,
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Hi stillearning,
Hi Lottree
I hope you are well. It is good to be in dialogue with you again.
3 little ones and a big boss and the world at large demand lot of time.Welcome back Nice to see u post again.
Peace!
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Hi Lotetree and all,
Sex and Sexuality was quite free in India until the Mughals took over the subcontinent and destroyed many of the temples that celebrated human sexuality. After centuries of Mughal rule Indians themselves became conservative about sex.
I think Moghals brought some morality to the country. So, I would say they did some good really in that area.
The way Sex was celebrated in India before wasnt a good thing, in my opinion. It was just animal passion. Women were reduced to sex objects. They were even sold and bought for sex as slaves. The woman did not have any say otherwise. And there were no morals.
Come on look at those paintings and sculptures........in all those old palaces and ancient structures. They say a lot.I agree its very important to have a healthy and realistic attitude but not to the extent that people dont see any morals anymore. We dont want the world to become one big brothel, do we?wink There needs to be a balance in the 'celebration'. Celebration is good only if within a monogamous relationship. And I dont think it was primarily celebrated like this back then in India.
before they too can see sex as natural and healthy part of human existence.
I agree this is important. There is an unhealthy attitude towards it in the muslim world. The muslim world is being ridiculously conservative. especially the fatwa and stuff.....shows how stupid their thinking is.roll
Peace!
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Hello PM on this fine Valentines Morning -)
The way Sex was celebrated in India before wasnt a good thing, in my opinion. It was just animal passion. Women were reduced to sex objects.
But this was true of all cultures from the start of the Oikemene Era in our human civilisations. But sex described in the Kama Sutra is a celebration of both sexes unless I have "read" the "politically correct" modern updated version wink
They were even sold and bought for sex as slaves.
Yes, that was the case in the Greek Culture with Temple Prostitutes.
The woman did not have any say otherwise.
That may be case in terms of how much power they had in a man's world. But sex depicted in Kama Sutra is a celebration of both partners sexuality I think.
And there were no morals.
In what way?
Come on look at those paintings and sculptures........in all those old palaces and ancient structures. They say a lot.
Temple paintings and Sculptures depicted both sexes "happlily" indulging in sex but again sexual excess was also depicted and anything excess is bad.
I agree its very important to have a healthy and realistic attitude but not to the extent that people dont see any morals anymore.
Anything excess is bad of course. And as human beings we are easily prone to doing things too excess. So yes excess is bad, moderation is good -)
We dont want the world to become one big brothel, do we?wink
Hey NO -) Nothing like that -) Individual celebration of sex but not a world as brothel. But sex depicted in hadiths seems like that in the after life where a man's erection lasts for an eternity!!! -)
There needs to be a balance in the 'celebration'. Celebration is good only if within a monogamous relationship.
I agree. Nothing excesss but moderation in all things. The path of moderation is the path chosen by wise people in the past like Socrates and others...
Regards,
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Peace be upon you Still Learning,
Coping with pain is not to be confused with not feeling the pain. Did anyone verify from the monk that he felt no pain?
I doubt if the ashes would have answered the question. The fact that he sat in Lotus position the entire time speaks volumes. Perhaps try just putting a match to your finger and see if you can "cope" with it. D
Control pain of child birth with meditation-yes it will make an excellent modern fairy story.
Well, its not my job to convince you of that, you can take it as a fairy tale. D
Many have tried this method only to suffer severe pain and disappointment-as there are many misguided souls who believe this type of method works and convince many poor women of its merit and as it inevitably fails in practice it leaves many women feeling that somehow they have failed some great test of motherhood.
As with anything, there are people doing instruction for things they are not qualified to instruct in.
But I dont intend to debate about something that I cannot verify FOR you.
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2223 Your women are the bearers of your seed. Thus, you may enjoy this privilege however you like, so long as you maintain righteousness. You shall observe GOD, and know that you will meet Him. Give good news to the believers. (RH)
2187 Permitted for you is sexual intercourse with your wives during the nights of fasting. They are the keepers of your secrets, and you are the keepers of their secrets. GOD knew that you used to betray your souls, and He has redeemed you, and has pardoned you. Henceforth, you may have intercourse with them, seeking what GOD has permitted for you. You may eat and drink until the white thread of light becomes distinguishable from the dark thread of night at dawn. Then, you shall fast until sunset. Sexual intercourse is prohibited if you decide to retreat to the masjid (during the last ten days of Ramadan). These are GOD's laws; you shall not transgress them. GOD thus clarifies His revelations for the people, that they may attain salvation. (RH)
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2223 Your women are the bearers of your seed. Thus, you may enjoy this privilege however you like, so long as you maintain righteousness. You shall observe GOD, and know that you will meet Him. Give good news to the believers. (RH)
2187 Permitted for you is sexual intercourse with your wives during the nights of fasting. They are the keepers of your secrets, and you are the keepers of their secrets. GOD knew that you used to betray your souls, and He has redeemed you, and has pardoned you. Henceforth, you may have intercourse with them, seeking what GOD has permitted for you. You may eat and drink until the white thread of light becomes distinguishable from the dark thread of night at dawn. Then, you shall fast until sunset. Sexual intercourse is prohibited if you decide to retreat to the masjid (during the last ten days of Ramadan). These are GOD's laws; you shall not transgress them. GOD thus clarifies His revelations for the people, that they may attain salvation. (RH)
Good TurkishMan, no where does it say sex is for procreation only wink
Regards,
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salaam all
LT and PM thank you for your warm ewelcome.Salaam idolfree
As with anything, there are people doing instruction for things they are not qualified to instruct in.
I am fascinated in your method of pain control. I am curious to learn more. If you would not mind perhaps you could e-mail me the details. My experience with non orthodox method of pain control is very negative but perhaps you might be able to change my perception.
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2223 Your women are the bearers of your seed. Thus, you may enjoy this privilege however you like, so long as you maintain righteousness. You shall observe GOD, and know that you will meet Him. Give good news to the believers. (RH)
2187 Permitted for you is sexual intercourse with your wives during the nights of fasting. They are the keepers of your secrets, and you are the keepers of their secrets. GOD knew that you used to betray your souls, and He has redeemed you, and has pardoned you. Henceforth, you may have intercourse with them, seeking what GOD has permitted for you. You may eat and drink until the white thread of light becomes distinguishable from the dark thread of night at dawn. Then, you shall fast until sunset. Sexual intercourse is prohibited if you decide to retreat to the masjid (during the last ten days of Ramadan). These are GOD's laws; you shall not transgress them. GOD thus clarifies His revelations for the people, that they may attain salvation. (RH)
Good TurkishMan, no where does it say sex is for procreation only wink
Regards,
Peace
Lets call it REPRODUCTION with pleasure. roll or t he way around PLEASURE with reproduction.Does it make any difference ? Not Really shock
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Peace
Lets call it REPRODUCTION with pleasure. roll or t he way around PLEASURE with reproduction.
Does it make any difference ? Not Really shockBut my argument on this thread TurkishMan is that we have reached a certain stage in our development as human species that there is ONLY PLEASURE in SEX. The REPRODUCTION become secondary and even then a matter of choice for individuals - what say you TurkishMan?
Regards,
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Peace Lote
I disagree with your idea because procreation is necessary to continue having people living on an earth that can support them. Beautiful young lovlies with ripe bodies are great choices for us males and that's what we like. I personally do not want to have children for my own reasons.
Joe
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Peace Dr. LoteTree,
Oh please Claurianta not for show. That will be a killer!!! In fact it will be like hell in heaven if they are only for show -(
What so bad about sex anyway?
Regards,
Think about the cartoon in which Muhammad was supposedly telling the martyrs (suicide bombers), "Stop stop, we ran out of virgins". Think about the reaction of the martyrs. That must be a killer for them.
Your reaction is similar. "Oh please Claurianta not for show. That will be a killer!!!"
How about this?
"Stop stop LoteTree, they are only for show! You can't have sex with them!"Anwar Azim
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Hello Nabi,
Peace Lote
I disagree with your idea because procreation is necessary to continue having people living on an earth that can support them.That is so but that is not my argument. My argument is that PRIMARY use of sex NOW is for PLEASURE. REPRODUCTION has become secondary and even that is a matter of choice now...
Regards,
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Hello Anwar,
Long time no see?
And Dr. LoteTree? How did that happen?
Now now Anwar, don't put me on a high pedastal that even you can't reach? I might just enjoy looking down on you wink
Just kiddin -)Think about the cartoon in which Muhammad was supposedly telling the martyrs (suicide bombers), "Stop stop, we ran out of virgins". Think about the reaction of the martyrs. That must be a killer for them.
Your reaction is similar. "Oh please Claurianta not for show. That will be a killer!!!"
That is why the Cartoon is very funny D
How about this?
"Stop stop LoteTree, they are only for show! You can't have sex with them!"Knowing my luck probably there will be sign up in heaven with that -(
I suppose I will have to go with "Look but not touch"...it will be hard. In fact it will be very hard-(
But I guess looking is fine -( ...yes I can live with it perhaps after a looooooooooooooong agony wink -)Regards,
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Thats quite a possibility, I'd say. The book, I understand has been partly translated by and to suit the westerners.
I will check up on that.
Temple prostitutes was common in India too.....I dunno what the greek one is but here a young girl was selected and was forcibly married to the hindu God(idol). Once she is married to the God(she becomes God's property), its meant that any man from that village had access to her sexually....... in other words a 'holy' prostitute. roll
Yes Greek temple prostitues had similiar role.
I am not denying they celebrated sex........but they did more than celebrate sex. And it was all about pleasing the men.
Yes it was about pleasing men but that was the case for all women in the start of the Oikemene era.
The women were trained to seduce men and please them.
They got pleasure too wink
There were wives, courtesans and so on..O, and the women celebrated 'sex' amongst themselves too.
Yes. Sex Research has shown that upto 70% of women have some bisexual tendency.
There was public nudity, group sex, public sex, bestiality, swinging, homosexuality(not restricted to people born with that orientation but practised at large) etc The richer u were the more women u had access to and so on.......Women were primarily sex objects.
Unfortunately that was the case for all women in the Oikemen period.
I dont think its a good idea to give specific examples in a public forum.(just do a google image search of the word 'khajuraho'. That should give a general idea. khajuraho is a temple town in Madhya Pradesh of India. But should warn u, these sculptures are pornographic in nature.)
Its ok I have seen them all wink
Regards,
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Hello All,
I have heard people say that the primary use of sex is REPRODUCTION. I want to argue the case that we have reached a certain stage in our development as species that this is no longer the case. The primary function of sex is now is for pleasure. The REPRODUCTION function has become secondary and even then that has become a matter of choice.
Humanity as a species may have been driven by principles of Darwinian Natural Selection in the past but we have reached a stage where Darwinian Reproductive urge no longer is in control. But we are now in control. We are in a sense living in a Anti-Darwinian world and in this world sex is for pleasure and nothing to do it REPRODUCTION.
As for me I think Sex is one of the amazing thing you can share between two people. Sex is fantastic. Through consensual Sex I have felt a connection and a closeness that is more akin to a connection that you can develop intellectually with another individual. I also felt joy, satisfaction, contentment, fulfilment, peace and also a very good night's sleep!! wink
So sex is good. It relieves tension. It is amazing. And yes SEX IS FOR PLEASURE.
I guess for the young'en's on this forum this thread is probably not for you because you have to experience sex before you will know how good it is wink
Sex is good but please don't rush out and impregnate the first girl you find. Practice safe sex OK!!! -) or no sex at all and wait till you are married ok chaps and chapess -)
Regards,
What evolutionary theory actually says is that the pleasure of sex is an adaptation for procreation.
Why is sex pleasurable and why do we humans go out of our way to have sex ? An evolutionary psychologist might respond that sex is pleasurable because the pleasure we experience is one of natures tricks to insure that we reproduce. What better way is there to guarantee reproduction than to make the very acts and behavior of reproduction rewarding and pleasurable? According to this line of thought, the phenomenal experience of enjoyment and pleasure in sex is the proximal evolutionary mechanism to achieve the distal evolutionary goal of guaranteeing reproduction. We humans are soft wired to follow the proximal goal of pleasure regardless of the distal goal of reproduction.
http//psych-www.colorado.edu/hgss/hgsschapters/HGSS_Chapter15So, your assertion seems to be senseless.
Furthemore, I Think this kind of topic may be hurting for the unmarried readers who are striving to avoid sexual relations.
Peace