Saturday, June 25, 2011

As a boy of the Fifties and Sixties era and raised in a Fundamentalist Christian church, there was no sex-education as such, but of course it was subjective. In our system, we were taught that good boys save themselves for the 'right' woman and respect all girls and women as ladies, unless they proved to us, by word or deed, that they weren't. (however they were supposed to do that...) As Americans we all, male and female, inherited the very aspects of the Puritans that got them run out of England and Europe and have adopted that as our National Morality and it's been fucking up generations of Americans forever after. This was one of my very early disagreements with 'Holy Mother Church.' "God" supposedly gave us this playground that feels wonderful to use and in complimentary sexes so that we can all play with each other's toys to mutual satisfaction, then in 'His Infinite Wisdom,' said, "Hand's off, boys and girls! You can only do that behind closed and locked doors and only in preset arrangements which will be confining and intolerable. Furthermore, if any of you ever step over the lines I'm drawing, then you will be ostracized from your community, then for good measure, you will be publicly thrown naked into an everlasting lake of fire to burn forever and ever, amen. Now! Aren't you glad I created you and gave you this playground to never, ever use? Praise Me!" I thought, "God is a BASTARD!!!" I used to pray that He'd take the testosterone drive away, or at least reduce it to more manageable levels. How could I be such a good Christian boy and still get a hard-on when I accidently (or not so accidentally) opened the Sears catalog to ladies foundation garments? It was torture! Oh yeah and we can't forget, it's an even bigger sin to "cast your seed on the ground." So, God gave us all sex organs then explicitly told us "No Sex! and No Masturbation either! Enjoy, people! I'm off to Vacation now at Hedonism, the Planet" See? God was a Bastard! Then I thought, "Well OK, He created Satan to be His fall-guy. If we're all gonna blame this on God and call him a Bastard over this, it might as well all be 'Satan's fault.'" But then, Satan started blaming God for it too! "It wasn't me! Go have all of the sex you want to have! I didn't say that, it was that Big-Assed Bastard up there on the Golden Throne!" So God gave us STD's with the idea that this would stop us and close the playground He'd created for us not to use, but it didn't work!! Why, you ask? The Trojans, in league with Satan, created balloons to fit over men's phallii, thereby stopping God in His tracks on the STD front! So God retaliated by starting the Hellenic wars and trying to burn the Trojan factory to the ground. We now call that the seige of Troy and boor young people to death making them read the Iliad and then the Oddyssey, but those stories are subterfuge, created by the Big Bastard  In The Sky to disguise the real nature of the thing.
We are all sexual beings. We all have the right as to how or whether or not to use our sexuality, and to engage in sexual behavior or not. As a kid, the church indoctrinated me to believe something their 'God' gave me was wrong and shameful. As an adult, I've learned to put them and that far behind me.

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