Mark Oppenheimer, the “Beliefs” columnist for the NYT, had a big cover story in yesterday’s magazine that approvingly discussess the views of sex columnist Dan Savage re the propriety of consensual adultery. Here is the link. For those interested in my views, over at Secondhand Smoke, I explain that such articles tear at social norms that help people resist the temptation to stray and promote hedonism.
Monday, July 4, 2011, 1:03 PM
July 4th, 2011 | 4:12 pm
You make that sound like a bad thing or something.
If gays have the right to a “sexual identity” (and to have that identity “affirmed”), then why wouldn’t everyone?
As long as it can be argued (however accurately or inaccurately) that it is “victimless” – which includes pretending that the two people having the relationship are the only stakeholders (even when they’re not), and/or point-blank vilifying anyone who claims to be harmed from the relationship (because some pigs are just more equal than others), then isn’t it right and natural that freedom to worship one’s own crotch should override all other freedoms of religion?
All the others are stuffy and full of boundaries and limits and “should nots”. What fun to have a religion built out of the idea that the “should not” is the only “should not”!
July 4th, 2011 | 6:49 pm
What a hypocrite.
The urge is self-justifying until he decides to exclude something.
July 4th, 2011 | 8:51 pm
Did you all see the book review by Annie Sprinkle, July 3, in praise of prostitution in the
New York Times. !
July 10th, 2011 | 8:54 am
If gay marriage is the same as traditional marriage, then promiscuity and adultery must be normal.
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