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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (20138)	8/1/2001 10:39:26 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

You are a spring chicken, too young to retire....... I am perfectly content to accept a degree of coitus outside of marriage, as people have trial runs and false starts. I just want keep them waiting a little, and I want to discourage sheer promiscuity.

To: Lane3 who wrote (20138)	8/1/2001 11:58:22 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You didn't deal with the important question, which is the amount of sex that goes on outside of marriage. That's because once 'adulthood' is reached, I don't regard consensual sex as any great problem - assuming that harmful physical effects (STDs and unwanted pregnancy being the key ones) are minimised... Adulthood, BTW, I'd define here as being 'old enough to recognise the mental/emotional impact and significance of what you are doing, and sensible enough not to become to f***ed up by it'... which probably does exclude most people below 17-18, and indeed plenty above it. I don't think marriage would necessarily change that, however:it might... but I'd suggest that anyone 'adult' enough to recognise the commitment and meaning of marriage would probably not be mentally very changed by it, and certainly not by continued unmarried sex with their partner. I suppose socks are a valid diversion. Did you make pairs or just single socks? 30 years must make a lot of garments... <vbg>