Men of Two Minds and the Y-Not? Chromosome
Sam Aurelius Milam III
On
Thursday, August 12, 2010, I was busy for most of the day but, from time
to time during the day, I turned on my television. Mostly, I watch
the documentary channels so, on that particular day, I saw on The History
Channel bits and pieces of a documentary series on the seven deadly
sins, as defined by various Christians over the past several centuries.
The documentary series had one episode on each of the seven deadly sins,
those being wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.
If it was left to me, then I'd start the list with evangelism. Indeed,
I'd probably limit the list to evangelism. Whatever the case, I saw
only bits and pieces of the series, those bits and pieces being from the
episodes on sloth and lust.
The
most interesting material that I saw was from the episode about lust.
Note that the episode was about lust and not about human sexuality.
I believe that the perception of human sexuality as lust, and the perception
of lust as sin, reveals a perverted attitude toward human sexuality.
I once heard it describe as "the typical filthy Christian mind".
Whatever description you prefer, it's a fact that Christians deal with
the idea of sin more readily than they deal with the idea of human sexuality.
I'm reminded of an amusing little anecdote about a circuit preacher.
During his monthly visit to a small church in a remote part of his district,
he tried to impress upon the members of the congregation the insidious
nature of sin. He warned them that even something as seemingly innocent
as a pillow could become an instrument of sin. Some people in the
big city, he noted by way of example, sinned by putting a pillow under
the woman's backside during their acts of procreation. Upon his next
visit to that region, the preacher observed that many of the local ducks,
chickens, and geese were notably lacking many of their feathers.
The
reluctance of Christians to deal openly with human sexuality has made it
difficult for them to specify just exactly what it is that they want to
discourage. The secular authorities have been more successful than
the Christians in that regard. If your local preacher isn't helpful,
then secular documents such as, for example, a Penal Code might be a useful
source of interesting ideas. The best that the Christians have been
able to do is to impose a general prohibition of anything sexual or, more
generally, of anything that feels good, with one specific exception.
That is, anything sexual is a sin except for "relations" between a man
and his own wife, with her on her back and him on top, with both of their
heads at the same end, strictly for the purpose of procreation, without
the involvement of any extra gadgets, and just so long as neither of them
enjoys it. I've heard it described as the Missionary Position, an
interesting pun if nothing else.
Admittedly,
the documentary provided a few brief mentions of other cultures, past or
present, that had or have less punitive notions than do the Christians
regarding human sexuality. There was even a brief mention of the
Kama
Sutra. Of course, the documentary was being shown on a channel
that's licensed in the United States. That being the case, you couldn't
expect anything more than the network censors will allow. The treatment
of the
Kama Sutra was predictably brief. The filthy-minded
network censors are always on the job, always imposing upon the rest of
us their perverted notion that human sexuality is obscene.
The
really good part of the episode on lust came near the end of that episode.
It was a segment about a group of scientists who were studying the functioning
of the human brain during moods of sexual interest as compared to moods
of oh, I don't know maybe the way that people feel while they're sitting
in church, listening to the preacher talk about the Israelites wandering
in the wilderness and eating sugar-frosted manna flakes for breakfast.
I
didn't make a recording of the documentary so I can't go back and retrieve
any specific
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