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Stinky The Clown

(67,841 posts) Thu Feb 16, 2012, 10:37 PM Feb 2012

When I was a young clown, the good fathers of the order of Holy Cross taught us young men that . . .

. . . . sex without the intent to procreate was recreational, and was sinful.

Why, we asked, did God make us the only species for which sex was pleasurable?

Well, they told us, God made homosexuality pleasurable, too, but we all know that's not right.

I stopped being a practicing Catholic not long at all after my graduation from Notre Dame High School.

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When I was a young clown, the good fathers of the order of Holy Cross taught us young men that . . . (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 OP

I was a Catholic... izquierdista Feb 2012 #1

Re: "God make us the only species for which sex was pleasurable" Speck Tater Feb 2012 #2

Hell, take one look at my young male cat when he's masturbating kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #4

Or Dolphins. nt DCKit Feb 2012 #5

I stopped in 7th grade when I recognized the misogyny Remember Me Feb 2012 #3

izquierdista

(11,689 posts)

1. I was a Catholic...

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 10:52 PM

Feb 2012

...until I reached the age of reason. ---George Carlin

Speck Tater

(10,618 posts)

2. Re: "God make us the only species for which sex was pleasurable"

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:18 PM

Feb 2012

I guess you never heard about the bonobo monkeys then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sexual_social_behavior

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

4. Hell, take one look at my young male cat when he's masturbating

Reply to Speck Tater (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:21 PM

Feb 2012

and purring, with that goofy smile on his face, and tell me it's not pleasurable.

And he's been neutered.

DCKit

(18,541 posts)

5. Or Dolphins. nt

Reply to Speck Tater (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 17, 2012, 04:34 AM

Feb 2012

Remember Me

(1,532 posts)

3. I stopped in 7th grade when I recognized the misogyny

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 11:18 PM

Feb 2012

though that word was completely unknown at the time and wouldn't begin to be known, along with "sexism" for half a decade more years and I was in the "less happenin' " Midwest, and didn't really hear it for at least a decade and a half more.

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