I know you have a very high opinion of your setters, but I'm not willing to place them in the category of reasoning, consenting adults.
I;'m getting confused. Are you really saying that a loving, caring physical relationship between two men or two women is comparable to some wacko getting off with a dog (which I would classify as abusive, I think)? ANd that any sexual act that isn't consummated by vaginal intercourse is, in your opinion, unnatural?
Since the only thing I can see that sets male/female intercourse apart from other sexual acts, is that it's designed for procreation, then wouldn't your logic lead you to have sex only to procreate? Otherwise, you are just doing it for the same reasons anyone does who wants to be close to someone they love- to touch and be touched and to be gratified emotionally (and physically). Why then, should sexual acts be confined only to male-female, in one specific manner, if they are not intended for procreation?
This has nothing to do with my personal opinions on any of these topics. I don't know that anyone should care what my or your personal feelings are about our sexual preferences. They are meaningless to any but ourselves if they occur between consenting adults and I don't believe that you or I or Po or E or Solon or.... have any particular market on morality here, except as it applies to our own behavior.
I can certainly decide that I'd rather not spend my time socializing with a person who insists on regaling me with tales of his sexual conquests- be it with his wife in the missionary position or with his canary, but I hardly feel so morally superior that I will tell him what is Right and Wrong according to Rambi's Code of Sexual Behavior.
Which, by the way, involves a lot of sticky gummi bears and an uzi.
If you are referring to things outside the realm of a caring relationship, I probably would agree with some of what you say, but I also would feel the same aversion toward your "normal" act, if it is done outside a mutually caring and consensual relationship. |
