{"id":2176,"date":"2011-03-29T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2011-03-29T07:31:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:31:28","slug":"the-crusade-against-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"The Crusade Against Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I attended the Freethought Society<\/a>\u2019s monthly meeting. Our special guest was Jill McDevitt, who is a Sexologist and the owner of a \u201csex shop.\u201d In other words, her store, Feminique Boutique<\/a> sells lingerie, vibrators, and has sex positive lectures.<\/p>\n

I was working in West Chester, PA (where her store is located) when her store first opened and it created quite the controversy. This was what her lecture was about. She talked about the taboo against sex at every level of trying to open and run her store.<\/p>\n

The way I see it, the taboo against sex is mainly a religious one. It is perhaps one of the greatest evils that the Abrahamic religions have left on our society. It has become so pervasive that even atheists sometimes hold on to these taboos.<\/p>\n

In my examiner Atheism 101 series<\/a>, I have an article which talks about why Christianity demonizes nudity, sex and sexuality<\/a>. The thing is that we have to start to speak out more on this topic as a community of reason. Sexuality should not be repressed. Just as the greater atheist community often speaks out on gay rights issues, we also have to speak out more on the repression of sexuality in general.<\/p>\n

There is no reason why nudity should be censored. People should not be ashamed of the human body and when we see this type of thing, we should question it. We should fight back against the systematic crusade against sexuality.
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