CARNAL LUST

"Mommy, why is that lady on Uncle Jethro's workshop calendar not wearing any clothes?"

"SHRIEK!! GASP!! YOU STAY OUT OF UNCLE JETHRO'S WORKSHOP! HIS CALENDAR IS DIRTY ROTTEN FILTHY NASTY!"

And thus another nice innocent child gets indoctrinated into our society's perverted notion that human bodies are somehow obscene.

How is public nudity harmful? Who does it hurt? Hey, you can look at your own body in your own bathroom mirror, can't you? I suppose most folks don't really want to leave the less visually appealing glandular parts of their bodies unclothed in public, but if they did, so what?

Everybody knows, deep down, that the human body is fundamentally beautiful and the kind and loving things we can do together with our bodies are fundamentally wonderful. But somehow we've allowed our minds to be contaminated with the warped ideas of freakish perverts like Saint Paul and Saint Augustine and their infamous ilk.

We've even made "crimes" out of such total non-offenses as "pornography" and "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" and "public lewdness" and other nice things like that. That's right, folks, you can actually be arrested just for being nice to each other, if it's the kind of niceness that offends stuffy prudes.

Hey, folks, lust is the primary emotion behind all of our family values. If we didn't lust after each other, there would be no incentive to even bother to have families. Our species would pass out of existence.

Somehow we've gotten the strange notion that lust is perverted, so we've taken to indulging in perverted forms of lust, such as rape and child molesting. A healthy attitude towards proper lust would probably eliminate any desire to do these harmful deeds. No sane and rational person would ever waste such a wonderful thing as lust on anyone with whom they haven't carefully nurtured a mature loving relationship.

Now, can you consider homosexuality a "perversion"? Well, it's sometimes called that, but I don't see how it hurts anybody. I'd rather reserve the word "pervert" for the sort of person who harbors a paranoid dread of some imaginary "homosexual agenda" that threatens to "destroy family values" or something like that.

Kama Sutra