Morality @ MindSay

"Merry X-mas Cathouse - home of the ho-ho-hos!"

Prostitution, the worlds "oldest profession". Legal in the US till the early 1900's then forced into "shady practices" along with drugs and prohibition by the Womens Christian Temperence Union 

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution.)

Those crazy Christians, always trying to legislate morality when in fact all they do is is cause so called "sins" to become hidden and violent compounding the problem.

You can not control the animal instinct of man with laws or religion...it just won't work. Sex is nature and you can't fight it so why not make it legal, regulate it and tax it? Seems like a no brainer to me!

In Nevada "brothels" are legal. The "girls" practice safe sex and have regular doctor visits there by curbing the spread of "STD's" The "Moonlight Bunny Ranch" is one such brothel and HBO did a series on them between 2005 and 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathouse:_The_Series). I have seen many of the episodes and if my husband was going to seek a prostitute (which he better not if he wants to keep all his parts) I would hope he would go to a place like that.

Street prositutes are beaten, pimped,abused and often diseased, many are drug addicted as well. Wouldn't we be better off with safe , legal taxed brothels? America could surely use the tax dollars.

Why is prostitution illegal anyway? If a person can sell the use of their "body" as a maid or gardner, and a singer can sell her voice, a scientist can sell his mind,why can't the use of the "vagina" or "penis" be for sale? People don't say much these days if you "give it away", they just don't want you to profit from it.

I say take sex (prostitution) and drugs (pot) out of the hands of the dealers and pimps and you'll knock the feet out from under them!

 

One thing that has changed over the last three years or so is my motivation. I'm really pushing myself now, I have goals. I know it makes me sound crazy but I want to change the world. I want to show people the power of the individual, what one person can do, and inspire in them what great things, together, we may become. I'm constantly working to meet my definition of "great", and I'm planning a book that, in depth, covers it. My goal is to become larger than life, to make this world as amazing as I possibly can, and I have to martyr myself to it relentlessly.

It took me a long time to realize that doing so was the only thing that would make me feel fulfilled at the end of the day, and this only came to me when I had a graduating class looking up to me. I think that did change me more than anything else, but there were more gradual things, too. I try not to let petty things bother me anymore. I do my best to lament nothing, I got so sick of sitting around brooding over things I couldn't do anything about. Life is really short, and I have much better ways to spend my time.

I've given my life's path a lot of thought...I've studied Buddhism, various sects of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Nihilism, and quite a few other beliefs. What really set me on my course was when I was arguing against Nihilism, I was arguing that this world, that everything, does matter, because what "matters" is only relative to the individual perceiving it, and not solely the Nihilist. I decided that the only thing that matters to me is this world, that this is where I want to be, and that my only concerns past my own security and happiness were the present and future of this world. 

I went a step farther some time ago; my grandfather was like a second father to me, and was very important to my childhood, and I learned his last words, "I need something to hold onto." I can't let that happen to me, I have to know that I did something, that I did everything possible. That, on my death bed, I can know for a fact that I had martyred myself to what really did matter to me. Is that noble? To cast away any chance at redemption whether you believe in it or not, and do as I think I should? Or have I just lost my mind?

It's not a question of logic, though. It's a morality question. In a society when the norm is only self-gratification, is it insane to sacrifice one's self for something else? Is it honorable? And is it honorable still if the only reason one is doing so is for their own self-gratification or validation?

Like many families, my children watch television to the background drumbeat of “Sex is best saved for marriage.” It has been our philosophy that with the media clamoring for their attention from the time they were in diapers, offering them tempting (and mostly non-nutritious) treats and dangling the newest toys in front of them. It seemed that it wasn’t long before the commercials got racier, the girls more scantily clad, and they were hit with the idea of popularity being tied to sex appeal. We decided that we too could not give our children our messages too early or too often: illegal drugs harm your body and your mind; smoking has no benefits and many risks, including cancer; sex is more than a single physical act which you can do and then walk away from unchanged; sex is too complicated for many adults let alone children; and sex is best saved for a time of love, commitment, and marriage. They hear these drumbeats in the background any time we watch television shows together. We applaud characters who uphold our message and we use those who do not as times to teach. It is our hope that this drumbeat will continue in the background of their lives long after they leave the nest, long after our voices are drowned out by the voices of their peers.
A few weeks ago, my daughter decided to challenge my teaching by asking me if her father and I had ever had sex before marriage. I was a little taken aback and apparently had a little smile on my face. “You’re smirking!” she exclaimed. “You guys so did it!” I paused for another moment and just looked at her. I smiled even bigger and said: “I really don’t know how to answer your question. Sex is first of all a very private matter between two people. Second of all, what we may or may not have done does not change how we feel about it. Anyway, if I say ‘yes’, you will say ‘Busted’ and if I say ‘no’, you will say ‘You guys just don’t understand how things are these days.’ So, I am not going to answer your question. You will have to answer the question yourself for your own life one day and it will be your decision. And you won’t have to tell your children either.” She sighed and said something to effect that she knew I’d turn a question into a lesson. And so the drumbeat goes on…

"The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest."
                                        --Cecil J. Sharpe