Please don’t get rid of phsyical sex…

Well even though we can either jump on the technology train or let it blow by, but this is certainly not a replacement for straight up sex.  How scary would that be if we could no longer have intercourse or touch at all?!

Sex is not only pleasureable and a way to procreate but it is a way to release emotions through the phsyical act.  The brain can do what it wants but without actually feeling someone and sweating with them the act just is not the same.  How impersonal would sex be if we only sat in front of each other and thought about it?

The scary thing is that despite the present the idea that the existence of mankind could actually be threatened by sexually transmitted disease.  If things got that far out of hand then we would be living in a rather depressing world just at that let alone banishing sex.

Technology is bringing our world to a new dimension despite what science fiction says.  We can already see how the Internet has affected porn which has already had its own effects on our society.  I think that the new routes that technology takes us will certainly bring more controversy but in the same respect they can bring us good things.

The pill has brought consequences both good and bad, along with condoms, and abortion.  New technology will follow suite and come with both the good and the bad, a never ending cycle of the grey areas of life.

A bit of a reflection…

Living in a world of black and white would just be way too easy so we settle for grey.  The epitome of this seems to be that of the concept of defining pornography.  Pornography now exists in a way that has not been seen before.  The cyber world of the Internet has now added the world of erotica into its ambiguity.  Socially we need to evaluate this reality and come to some kind of understanding, but HOW? How can we take the opinions of the entire world into account?

This class has done a great job in presenting the difficulty in making this transition but I feel that it was a little too one way.  This being an on-line course made it all the more interesting because we now have the opportunity to discuss such issues in an anonymous way.  I loved the idea but found out that it did not seem to work out in such a large class.  With just under 400 students I feel that some very good points got lost in the crowd and failed to come under as a topic of discussion.  Perhaps students just wanted to meet their quota or maybe the fact that it was online made the venue too impersonal to spark discussion.

The encouraging aspect of this class is that there are a lot of intelligent people who have some great perspectives.  This class engaged me in thinking reasonably in both ways pro and con.  For such a grey area of society it seems necessary that we are as informed as possible using many different points of view before we make a decision. 

Overall I think that having and online discussion venue is great as long as it is paired with an in-class meeting of some nature.