Is there more to life than just sex

[yesman]

To me there obviously is, but it makes me wonder what makes the tabloids from both sides of the "pond", or anywhere else for that matter think's there isn't.

Read this and make up your own mind.

Personally I think it sucks, (no pun intended)

Or maybe I am just getting to old..........

[jrhnewark]

Strange.

I think there's far more to life than just sex (however good it maybe). There's cuddles, train journeys, dogs (well, I suppose they come under sex to some), sea air, and frantically writing stories on large mergers at 5am on a Sunday morning.

Sex is great. Cuddles are just as good.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by jrhnewark

Sex is great. Cuddles are just as good.

On balance, I would tend to disagree with that

[Halcyon]

There are lots more things that are equally as important.
Some people think everything is about sex but it should not be.
I have passions for music, traveling abroad, discovering new places, and if we are talking about being with your partner, just being close and spending time together is just as good, whatever you are doing.

[Chimaera]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

On balance, I would tend to disagree with that

So would I - at the moment - as it's sort of out of bounds!
Otherwise - no it's not really the be - all and end - all of everything - is it?

Personally (and having a bit of experience and knowledge in the subject!) I think it's a good thing if it will stop people being stigmatised for simply being "different".

Tabloids will always jump on a story like that, but that's just their natural hypocrisy...

[BBKing]

I was a bit worried by this:

Nanin's photos are more than an explicit how-to of exhibitionism and sadomasochism, he says; they are examples of safe alternatives to sexual intercourse that need to be de-stigmatised in order to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Does this mean we should be shipping bulk orders of whips, gimp suits and ball gags to sub-Saharan Africa and forgetting about the condoms? Not sure that's the way to fight HIV/AIDS at all - condoms, condoms and more condoms please (and wide-reaching education, of course).

Originally Posted by BBKing

Does this mean we should be shipping bulk orders of whips, gimp suits and ball gags to sub-Saharan Africa and forgetting about the condoms?

No, but I'd be quite happy if it was *as well as*...!

[BBKing]

You grasping capitalist pig

Incidentally, did anyone else see the story about the Brazilian government refusing $40m in US aid because it came with a proviso that they condemn prostitution. I thought it was outrageous to demand that proviso - there's nothing wrong with prostitution, there's quite a lot wrong with the surrounding coercion, violence and exploitation, and that deserves condemnation.

[shredder]

mmm no i didn't see it sorry! but sex sure does help!!!! i've just split with my ex after 2 1/2 years and god to i miss him....... but the sex!????

Originally Posted by BBKing

You grasping capitalist pig

Yes, and...?

Incidentally, did anyone else see the story about the Brazilian government refusing $40m in US aid because it came with a proviso that they condemn prostitution. I thought it was outrageous to demand that proviso

No I didn't, but good for them! Aid like that should *not* come with *any* strings attached.

[punky]

Originally Posted by Graham

No I didn't, but good for them! Aid like that should *not* come with *any* strings attached.

Not quite as good for the people with adis that might have liked that money.

Besides, its the US' money and they can do exactly what like with it. It is Brazil's own stupid fault if they don't want it, I am sure someone will. They should have been grateful they recieved anything, given the amount of people needing help in the world, and that extremly petty measure of fingerprinting every American coming in as a protest to the US' stance. Sounds a bit childish to me.

Originally Posted by punky

Not quite as good for the people with adis that might have liked that money.

Besides, its the US' money and they can do exactly what like with it. It is Brazil's own stupid fault if they don't want it, I am sure someone will.

Don't blame the Brazilians for something that is *entirely* the USA's fault.

If the Americans *really* cared, they would not put strings on something like that, but instead they try to force or cajole or bribe others in behaving in a way that suits *them* and that is simply not acceptable.

They should have been grateful they recieved anything, given the amount of people needing help in the world,

Oh sure: "*Thank* you for your charity, Uncle Sam! We're so pleased that you've bothered to give our poor benighted country some money that we'll tug our forelocks and bend our knees and kiss your ars^H^H^H boots and do whatever you say to get it!"

You really don't understand, do you?

and that extremly petty measure of fingerprinting every American coming in as a protest to the US' stance. Sounds a bit childish to me.

What, the USA implying that everyone who visits their country is a potential terrorist? Yes, I think that *is* incredibly childish, not to mention stupid and naiive because it will *not* prevent terrorism, but *will* just p$$$ people off.

[BBKing]

Certainly the US has the right to give $40 or $40bn to anyone it fancies. What it doesn't have the right to do is offer the money but attach conditions that infringe the autonomy of the nation you're donating to.

To my mind, if you're giving aid, there's only one proviso that's reasonable, and that's that you can check that the aid isn't being siphoned off into a Swiss bank account by some unscrupulous politico*. To try and use bribery and blackmail to influence a democracy like Brazil is completely out of order and smacks of neo-colonialism, not that the US would ever engage in that, no sir.

Effectively what the US is saying is 'Say what we want you to say or your people will die'. That's not 'spreading freedom across the world', that's simple blackmail.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04437989.htm

Quote:
"Biblical principles is their guide, not science," Pedro Chequer, director of Brazil's globally-lauded AIDS program, told Reuters. "This premise is inadequate because it hurts our autonomous national policy."

*As is happening in Iraq in quantities substantially larger than the $40m withheld from Brazil.

[yesman]

Dear Oh Dear.....

Girls aged 10 are taking the Pill
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen found 23 girls under 13 had been given the Pill - two were under 10 years old.

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