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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I totally agree with the bolded part, but I am not convinced that the examples necessarily produce the negative effects to which you allude. That is to say, I think that our interpretations of these things as negative produces negative effects like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Here I have just pronounced Twilight to be morally bankrupt, when in actual fact my own feelings about this already stem from a well worn, socially conditioned, collective prejudice.
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As I was writing it I wrestled with this. If sex can be purely reduced to a recreational activity like skiing then I would agree that it is social conditioning that has pushed us into these anti porn, anti promiscuity, anti prostitution mind set. However if through Biology sex has mental/emotional effect that cant be decoupled from the physical act then some of these reactions are instinctual then our interpretations of these things comes from a real place rather than society.
So is it possible to reduce sex to a physical response. For me I dont think I can.