Before anyone reads my post, I want to make a thing clear:
This is my very personal view on things. I see things like that because I thought about them for a vey long time, as I find that quite important.
I'm not judging anybody or saying that they are "less" worth it or something like that, I am just saying MY personal view on these things and how they affect ME and why I think what I think. If anyone feels offended, I feel deeply sorry as this is not what I intended to do.
On August 02 2011 17:39 sunprince wrote:
When an artist, writer, or performer sells their work (the most intimate expression of their feelings), are they less for it?
Having sex doesn't take away your ability to express yourself through sex. If anything, the practice makes you better at it.
You compare having sex someone to creating some stuff for someone?
We have a complete different view on things and thus we can't really discuss that. No wonder you disagree with me.
Sex is by my standards nothing like writing a book, a song or performing one on stage, or drawing a portrait of someone.
By the expression of feelings I meant the expression of feelings for somebody else. If you do these things for money, you pretty much erase the possibility because it is no longer anything special, but just another "service" you could buy, it just loses the meaning it had.
On August 02 2011 17:49 G_Wen wrote:
...
Look, I already said that it is okay for me as long as it is okay for them.
For me, sex is just nothing like "Hey could you do me a favor and have sex with me?" No, I have a complete different view on that.
I don't go into a restaurant and ask the waitress for sex before having dinner.
I could never have sex "just for fun". It's just not how I see things.
Just because some people are having sex without the emotional connection does not lesson the value of intimate sex.
I disagree on that point. Strongly.
Sex is the strongest terrestrial expression of love. The strongest.
As a human being you can't feel the feelings of other humans, thats just not possible.
Therefore, having sex for money destroys the way of having sex because of love, at least for me.
Let me explain why I think so:
Why do we talk to each other?
Because we can't read each other's mind, right?
So when we talk to each other, you hope to get the information that I have(my mind and thoughts), and I hope the same for you.
Nnow, when you start talking bullshit and not what you think and not what I want to hear, I don't trust you anymore. Your talking won't mean anything to me because I know I can't be sure whether it is true or not.
Sure, this state can change, but for that typical moment I don't believe what you say.
Now it comes to love. Feelings. How can we express these?
Facial expressions, words, kissing etc and sex and anything related to it.
What happens when you start laughing for no reason, say things you don't mean, kiss everybody you see and have sex without emotional connections?
Nobody will believe that you are happy when you laugh, nobody will trust a word you say, nobody will have feelings when you make such kind of acts (e.g. kissing for no reason, having sex without even caring about feelings etc.)
I know that this is a harsh way to see it, but as I value the "extraterrestrial" over anything else, I try to respect them as much as possible.
I could never have sex without "a reason" behind it. I could never kiss someone without "backing it up" with proper feelings, I would never tell you that I'd like you if I didn't.
Therefore, I strongly connect these things to people's mind, feelings, thoughts and their overall "human consciousness" and everything that can not be measured in numbers.
It is really hard do express, even in words, and the whole topic of communication, feelings and the "possible expressions" for that is very interesting and eversince I thought and read about it I can't just simply say
"Sex is just sex, a kiss is just a kiss, and saying "I love you" doesn't mean anything".
By saying i'm romantic I didn't mean I'm a casanova, I'm referring to the age of romance as the counterpart to enlightment. And because I know, as a rational human being, this sounds pretty stupid, I said "romantic idiotic f****tard". It is fully understandable that people disagree with me but thats just my 2 cents. I don't disagree with the enlightment on the religion part, but I strongly disagree with it when it comes to feelings, sex and other stuff.
And please, I already said that I don't judge them as worse human beings. It's just that I wouldn't trust them in anything related to the issue.
EDIT: fixed some typos. Sorry for my horrible english.