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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1714 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 4, 2025

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Otherwise, it seems self-evident to me that God would not have made something so fundamentally part of our nature feel good to us if he didn't intend for us to enjoy it

Counterpoint: It also feels good to dominate other human beings, but I don't believe God intended for us to enjoy that.

Now, match "domination" to "sex", combine that with the degree that marriage is inherently an exclusive prostitution agreement for sociobiological reasons, mix that with a generally-productive instinct for men to do this sexually more often... and now you know why traditionalists have an emergent, adversarial relationship with sex. For progressives, mix that with the female zero-sum social game, and the result is "yes, all men do that for power reasons, and they all do it on purpose".

I think it would be pretty fantastic if you actually dug into the logic underlying any of your frequent pronouncements on this subject, rather than acting as though your highly-idiosyncratic perspective should be straightforwardly obvious.

A few questions to help the process along:

  • Is the parent-child relationship also obviously a form of prostitution for sociobiological reasons? If not why not? Or depending on how one drew the lines, is it more analogous to simping?

  • How does the purported adversarial relationship with sex "emerge" in traditionalist relationships? Is this why their marriages observably last much longer, and why they report much higher rates of satisfaction with those marriages? How does this emergent adversarial relationship with sex interact with the consistent reports of higher sexual satisfaction among such traditionalists?

That's an interesting point, but is it not also plausible that dominating other people is pleasurable because it taps into an impulse which God does intend that we enjoy? In that case the good feeling of dominating others would ultimately be something which is corrupted by sin, much like how sex outside of marriage still feels good but isn't part of God's plan.

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