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Re: Will there be world peace if everyone gets to have sex?
| quote: | Originally posted by Rigon
With whoever we wanted and as many times as we wanted.
Or would we just get god damn tired of fucking eachother, and start dreaming of the times where everything was about war again... |
I would bank on the latter.
The same passion which incites violence is merely an extension of sexual potential. To say that war, on the whole, is caused by sexual tension between organisms is a bit of an over-simplification, but it's not necessarily untrue. But war is more an extension of society than it is an extension of violence - sort a paradox, I know.
Sex however is a carnal instinct amplified by society, much like violence; but its passion lies in its competition, it's taboo as a public faculty; it is something that everybody wants, but not everybody can have at all times - this dynamic may very well lead people to violence, but it is the very same work that defines the reward, in a sense. Sex would probably be pretty boring if you never had to earn it.
In Huxley's Brave New World, sex was a social component encouraged by authority as a means to in fact dispassion people - a stark dystopian contrast to Orwell's 1984, where sexual contact was thoroughly disapproved by authorities. I thought this was a far more interesting concept, as characters in the book were known to have numerous and multiple partners, over-sexed to the point where it was merely a social function rather than a leisurely pursuit one had to compete with others for - in short, people were bled of their passion and as such, could no longer enjoy the things that we find enhanced by said spirit.
It is the taboo and the relative criminality that defines our virility for perpetuating our discontinual existence - not as often, the act, itself.
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