The really sad thing is that this isn't just about sex.  Sexual happiness and fulfilment are famously good for you in all aspects of life.  When Clinton was getting impeached, I joked that I think the office of president ought to include fluffers.  There's no reason at all why someone with that much responsibility ought to ever be sexually frustrated.

What makes me so mad is that teenagers ought to be encouraged to explore their sexuality safely and without shame.  I imagine a country where some aging rock star's boob comes out during a superbowl show and nobody even cares.  Where girls don't have to lie to each other about their dates and say they just kissed when they really gave their date a handjob.

I wonder if most people have thought about what being a teenager would be like if it wasn't treated like a capital offense to fool around.  Study after study shows that girls who know all about their sexuality and know all their options for birth control and disease prevention are actually less likely to have sex and more importantly, less likely to have unprotected sex.

We're creating a nation of neurotics.  

You think?  

It seems like it ought to be blatantly obvious to everybody that informed decisions are better than uninformed decisions, and accurate data is better than inaccurate data.  Once again, reality proves me dreadfully wrong.

The longer I live, the more I'm baffled that people think sex is so damned special.  I saw a shirt once that said, "Relax.  It's just sex."  I think that's one of the most profound bumper-sticker style slogans I've ever heard.

One thing brings me a certain amount of intellectual comfort when I look at how sex-crazy (and I mean insane in our thinking about sex, not horny all the time) we are.  I'm reminded of how beautifully humans illustrate the principle of evolution -- evolution doesn't care if we're happy.  It cares if we reproduce successfully.  Think about it:  If everybody became sane about sex and reproduction, the population would probably drop 50% or more.

 That kind of thing burns me to the core.  What really gets me is that in the last fifty years, since scientists first began to look at humans as "just another animal" and scientifically study the way we work, we've compiled mountains of evidence that our sexual identity is, in a very real sense, our identity.  So much of our life is a direct extension of our gender, sexual orientation, and attitudes towards sexuality that it's sometimes hard to think of something that isn't somehow related to sex.

Just for shits and giggles, try to think of some social behavior that isn't somehow related to sex.  It's harder than you think.

What especially burns me is how badly we fuck up women's heads by telling them that they're supposed to be exactly the opposite of what their biology wants.

Damn... lots of things are making me mad tonight.

 I think part of why Freud is still popular in some circles, and why he achieved such popularity in the mainstream, was that he was right about quite a few things, even though he got there the completely wrong way.  Of course, his whole system is fatally flawed, but there really are a lot of people with hidden sexual issues that muck up their lives, and in the end, everything really is about sex.

In the States, we think that kind of behavior is pretty weird.  You fucking Canadians keep your deviant sexual practices above the border... capiche?

I see your mistake quite clearly.  You were thinking that playing a game while being part of a group that has no chance of getting laid is the same thing as the game itself not being related to human sexuality...

easy mistake to make.

Ibid.