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Warpy

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10. Rampant access to religion at an early age is just as bad, if not worse
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 03:27 PM
Jan 2020

because that is where the worst attitudes toward sex as sin and poisoning the relationship between the sexes originates. Without all the robed charlatans teaching people that sex defiles us and that one sex is the natural slave of the other, and that virgins are pure and sexually active women are poisonous and all the other vast pile of utter hogwash they use to get us by the balls and keep us there, one wonders what pornography would be like. Hell, we might even have eroticism, instead.

I don't think pubescent kids of both sexes looking at nakedness is all that bad, curiosity is natural, especially when your own body is going through so many changes. Religion is what supplies the plot, that males "need" what little girls have. but in order not to be shamed and reviled, little girls need to stay "pure" and if you don't think that's where much of the rage comes from, you haven't been paying close attention.

Yes, some of the porn out there is degrading and nauseating beyond belief. However, that's only part of the conversation that needs to happen. Addressing the men who supplied the plot line, codified into law and set into stone over thousands of years, you're not going to get far.

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