Comments on: Sex and Social Networking http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Robin Forder http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-2#comment-534619 Robin Forder Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:16:58 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-534619 David, Yes, I appreciate this point of view. To be honest, it's why I put 'moral virtue' in quotes. gps, You're free to express your opinions, and I am free to express mine. People have a right to hear other points of view: it's part of a free, healthy society. So, no I shall not. Arguably, science and religion address different spheres, one how, and the other why. Morality (which is what this is about really, rather than religion) is, at least partly, about the wider view, and the long-term best interests. To some extent, it is the wisdom of the ages, built on millennia of human experience. We might like to think we know better, but it is wise to at least to consider it. I'm advocating chastity before marriage and faithfulness within as a way of avoid STD infection. So, if teenagers and the older generation reject this path, then they do run the risk of infection, indeed. David,

Yes, I appreciate this point of view. To be honest, it’s why I put ‘moral virtue’ in quotes.

gps,

You’re free to express your opinions, and I am free to express mine. People have a right to hear other points of view: it’s part of a free, healthy society. So, no I shall not.

Arguably, science and religion address different spheres, one how, and the other why. Morality (which is what this is about really, rather than religion) is, at least partly, about the wider view, and the long-term best interests. To some extent, it is the wisdom of the ages, built on millennia of human experience. We might like to think we know better, but it is wise to at least to consider it.

I’m advocating chastity before marriage and faithfulness within as a way of avoid STD infection. So, if teenagers and the older generation reject this path, then they do run the risk of infection, indeed.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-2#comment-534409 David Bradley Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:57:53 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-534409 <a href="http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/spray-on-condoms.html" rel="nofollow">Spray-on condoms</a> have apparently come of age...I don't think so! Spray-on condoms have apparently come of age…I don’t think so!

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-2#comment-534382 David Bradley Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:29:33 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-534382 GPS, It's not even just teens, it's silver sh*ggers too, the incidence of STDs among older people is also on the rise., despite the fact that the older generation often has a religion-based code of conduct, as it were. GPS, It’s not even just teens, it’s silver sh*ggers too, the incidence of STDs among older people is also on the rise., despite the fact that the older generation often has a religion-based code of conduct, as it were.

]]> By: gps http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-1#comment-534239 gps Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:36:06 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-534239 Robin, teenagers fall in love too and marriage doesn't keep anyone from getting STD's, so I advise you to keep your religious opinions to yourself! Science needs to end religion soon! Religion is pulling society back, and science can accelerate the understanding of the universe quicker when religion is gone! Robin, teenagers fall in love too and marriage doesn’t keep anyone from getting STD’s, so I advise you to keep your religious opinions to yourself! Science needs to end religion soon! Religion is pulling society back, and science can accelerate the understanding of the universe quicker when religion is gone!

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-1#comment-534012 David Bradley Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:55:18 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-534012 The thing is a lot of people don't want to do what other people consider to be the moral thing. They have their own set of virtues (to paraphrase Mick Jagger) The thing is a lot of people don’t want to do what other people consider to be the moral thing. They have their own set of virtues (to paraphrase Mick Jagger)

]]> By: Robin Forder http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-1#comment-533962 Robin Forder Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:00:51 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-533962 Christians don't have a monopoly on 'moral virtue' at all, so I'm sure others can manage it. We can't change what others do, but if we do a certain thing, then others can see that it is possible. Christians don’t have a monopoly on ‘moral virtue’ at all, so I’m sure others can manage it. We can’t change what others do, but if we do a certain thing, then others can see that it is possible.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-1#comment-533437 David Bradley Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:27:06 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-533437 Robin, interesting in theory, but there are many more people out there guided by primordial urges than by spiritual leanings. As to eradicating STDs in two generations, it's a nice idea, but it ain't going to happen. Even when societies were more widely religious STDs were widespread. Robin, interesting in theory, but there are many more people out there guided by primordial urges than by spiritual leanings.

As to eradicating STDs in two generations, it’s a nice idea, but it ain’t going to happen. Even when societies were more widely religious STDs were widespread.

]]> By: Robin Forder http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/sex-and-social-networking.html/comment-page-1#comment-533298 Robin Forder Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:12:49 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=2003#comment-533298 There is a third kind of safe sex, one regrettably overlooked and undervalued, that with your favourite person and only with your favourite person. It is tried, tested and widely known as marriage. It is possible to practise chastity before marriage and faithfulness within, even if it isn't easy, sometimes! Eyes on the prize, gentlemen and ladies, and back away from the edge... carefully. My Christian faith is key to my approach to this, but I can't help thinking that the advantages are clear. If we all managed this, how long would it take for STDs to be eliminated? Two generations? That might be 70 years. There is a third kind of safe sex, one regrettably overlooked and undervalued, that with your favourite person and only with your favourite person. It is tried, tested and widely known as marriage. It is possible to practise chastity before marriage and faithfulness within, even if it isn’t easy, sometimes! Eyes on the prize, gentlemen and ladies, and back away from the edge… carefully. My Christian faith is key to my approach to this, but I can’t help thinking that the advantages are clear. If we all managed this, how long would it take for STDs to be eliminated? Two generations? That might be 70 years.

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