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When Did Sex Become Fun?

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Re: When Did Sex Become Fun?

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Post by stcredzero »

kabdib wrote: post #6
jorgeleo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When sex started to be fun!

Oh. So, the 1960s, then.

There's a lot of references to orgasm in the writings of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Ancient Egyptians had a very playful attitude towards sex, as evidenced by art and writing. Romans had recreational sex, aided by the availability of a natural abortion inducing drug. Also, quite famously, there is graffiti from ancient Rome admonishing a local resident to stop constantly going down on local women.

Recreational sex is a basic human thing, across cultures and across history. People who think otherwise are just demonstrating ignorance of history and culture. This is common among young people, who often aggrandize themselves by convincing themselves that they are the first people ever to discover [insert basic human thing here]. Much harm has come out of their activities. (Though this too is a basic human thing, and much fun has also come of it.)

Re: When Did Sex Become Fun?

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Post by exolymph »

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #9
pcl wrote: post #5

Sadly, the really-terribly-written article doesn't actually have anything useful to say about the question in the title.

The title also begs the question! Is sex fun? Most people might say "Yes", but not quite 100% of the population.

This would be an interesting survey.

Re: When Did Sex Become Fun?

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Post by dhimes »

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #8

It became fun when I got married.

I know you're getting dv'ed but I actually like this comment. It may have something to do with the true answer to the question. Perhaps developing social structures were somehow important or perhaps sex-as-fun was important to developing social structures.

Re: When Did Sex Become Fun?

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Post by gohrt »

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #9
pcl wrote: post #5

Sadly, the really-terribly-written article doesn't actually have anything useful to say about the question in the title.

The title also begs the question! Is sex fun? Most people might say "Yes", but not quite 100% of the population.

It's a leading question, not begging the question. Begging the question would be "sex is fun because of X, and X always happens because sex is fun"

Re: When Did Sex Become Fun?

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Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe »

dhimes wrote: post #13
0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #8

It became fun when I got married.

I know you're getting dv'ed but I actually like this comment. It may have something to do with the true answer to the question. Perhaps developing social structures were somehow important or perhaps sex-as-fun was important to developing social structures.

Thanks, and by the way this is honestly how it has worked for me.

Re: When Did Sex Become Fun?

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Post by Jun8 »

Here's a quite specific answer from Philip Larkin:

  Sexual intercourse began
  In nineteen sixty-three
  (which was rather late for me) -
  Between the end of the Chatterley ban
  And the Beatles' first LP.
(from https://allpoetry.com/Annus-Mirabilis)

It doesn't answer the fun part, though, because Larkin was known to have a tedious love life.

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