by Mayavi Morpheus » Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:37 am
Neeraja ji, I cant fathom that deep. I am at loss here. I myself am confused. Still I will make an attempt to answer ABCD\'s question from ur POV, follwed by my own observations.
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<br>IMO, Neeraja would say that nothing is more immoral than indulging in the actual act. Sex is for procreation only and thats our culture.
<br>My take on this: Human mind is uncontrollable, more so for mortals, u can never control thought. Sexual feelings and arousals are but human nature. So imagination doesnt make you lose virginity.
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<br>Random thoughts:
<br>Why is sex considered immoral? Not just premartial, but sex for recreation is considered immoral too. For this we need to dwelve thru ancient Indain thought process.
<br>Before that I found the answer for ABCD\'s origial question.\"Why do guys prefer Virgins?\"
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<br>For this I will quote one Mr.Ghaurang Bhatt, he posts on another forum and this is what he has to say, on a different topic (abortion):
<br>\"This control of female sexuality by the human male has a basis in not wanting to raise some other male\'s children. This has indirect bearing on male attempts to control abortion. More importantly the last point of the article was now that birth control is freely available and safe, there should be no reason to fret about any spouse\'s copulation with any outsider. The instincts that have evolved still cause intense jealousy, violence and murders in such instances. This is why the subtitle was pelvic prisoners paroled by the pill. \"
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<br>In simple words, its human nature (also animal nature) that men only want to see their gene spread. They donot want to raise others children. If we take a Lion pride, the pride leader will kill the cubs of Lioness which were born out of sex with the previous pride leader, before it starts having sex and producing its own cubs.
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<br>Man is more evolved than a Lion and has compassion. He doesnt kill other humans. So the best way to avoid this catch 22 situation is to marry a woman who he knows that didnt copulate with other males. And so is the preference for Virgins. Unfortunately females donot have this choice, as men only fertilize women and do not give birth. Every child she bears is a result of having sex with a man, and carries her genes, so she is not raising \'others\' childern.
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<br>But birth control pills and contaceptives have changed the situation. Now men and women can indulge in recreational sex without fearing precreation.
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<br>The Indian side of story:
<br>Ever since Indian civilization evolved, Vedic Indians pursued spiritual thoughts to conquer the internal unlike west which conquered the external. The aim of a vedic man is to learn, to understand god, understand nature and achieve Moksha.
<br>To achieve moksha, one needs to concentrate. Concentration means focussing of all energies on one thing and one thing only. Sex, wine, gambling etc were seen as hurdles for achieving Moksha. So abstentisim(?) was followed. Sanyasatvam. But to further human race they need to reproduce, so they married women and copulated and then accepted sanyasam.
<br>This is the Hindu twist to it.
<br>Busshists and christians follow abstentism to come closer to god.
May the Fries be with you!