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I came across this piece on Scott Adam's blog and found it quite interesting. Thought others here might find it interesting too:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133406477506/global-gender-war#_=_
So if you are wondering how men become cold-blooded killers, it isn't religion that is doing it. If you put me in that situation, I can say with confidence I would sign up for suicide bomb duty. And I'm not even a believer. Men like hugging better than they like killing. But if you take away my access to hugging, I will probably start killing, just to feel something. I'm designed that way. I'm a normal boy. And I make no apology for it.
Now consider the controversy over the Syrian immigrants. The photos show mostly men of fighting age. No one cares about adult men, so a 1% chance of a hidden terrorist in the group – who might someday kill women and children – is unacceptable. I have twice blogged on the idea of siphoning out the women and small kids from the Caliphate and leaving millions of innocent adult men to suffer and die. I don't recall anyone complaining about leaving millions of innocent adult males to horrible suffering. In this country, any solution to a problem that involves killing millions of adult men is automatically on the table.
If you kill infidels, you will be rewarded with virgins in heaven. But if you kill your own leaders today – the ones holding the leash on your balls – you can have access to women tomorrow. And tomorrow is sooner.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday November 21 2015, @02:33PM
Unless both parties require about the same amount of sex, the low demand partner is going to have to agree to some sex that they aren't enthusiastic about for the health of the marriage.
I wonder why these discussions are always about marriage. The exact same thing could be said if you just replaced that word with "relationship". Marriage is just a silly social ritual that some people seem to believe is magic; I see little reason to assume that it's an inevitability in a relationship or that it will magically improve everything.
That's abuse and there's really no other way of looking at it.
Controlling your own body is abusing someone else? You're not entitled to sex in the first place. If someone doesn't consent to having sex with you, you have not lost anything, so there's no conceivable way withholding sex could qualify as "abuse".
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Sunday November 22 2015, @01:45AM
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(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Sunday November 22 2015, @01:47AM
Controlling your own body is abusing someone else? You're not entitled to sex in the first place.
Yes, exactly! In Dr. Harley's nomenclature, to engage in abuse, you have to actually do something. Not doing something is not abuse, and in fact he encourages you to not do something in your relationship if you are not enthusiastic about it.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday November 22 2015, @12:23PM
Withholding is an action you engage in in this context. Not having sex because you're physically unable is one thing, not having sex to control the other person is quite a different thing.
And yes, withholding sex definitely is a form of abuse. You see it on TV all the time being used as abuse and nobody seems to care. But, anytime you're doing something to take power from somebody else and use it to control them, that is abuse. If Dr. Harley is arguing otherwise, then he's a fucking moron that ought to have his license revoked because that's not competent psychological treatment.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Sunday November 22 2015, @12:54PM
If Dr. Harley is arguing otherwise, then he's a fucking moron that ought to have his license revoked because that's not competent psychological treatment.
The thing is, his approach leads to a happy relationship with lots of sex, whereas the approach of calling your wife or girlfriend an abuser or otherwise lecturing her for not having sex with you leads to loneliness and sexual frustration.
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