Sex
My friend James (hi there!) has written up a fabulous blog post about sex and what the company he works for is try to do for the cause. The basic concept is this, while we are all connected with social networking and such, how are we using that? To just have simple blurts of my cat is licking his ass again? Great. Can we try deeper please?
Sex is an issue that affects each and every one of us. And I do not believe for one second that talking about sex makes people more prone to “do it”. Education and answers are really the only tools that separates us from the animals.
Why are we afraid of people seeing us buy condoms? Why are we afraid of asking the doctor for a birth control prescription? Are we afraid their perception of us will change? I would wager a guess that 70% of the population doesn’t know the proper use of a condom. Maybe I’m wrong. With the rise of STD’s and pregnancies, I don’t think so.
Then there is the religious aspects which I can’t even believe I’m going to touch on, but here goes.
I believe in God and I believe God gave us sex as a tool that no other animal has the right to use like we do. It is intimacy, emotional and functional all in the same body. Yet, we are afraid of talking about it, for whatever reason. Well, I’m not. I can talk about it anywhere (I write erotica, nothing surprises me anymore). I’m amazed, astonished and puzzled that anyone of faith thinks that educating the next generation is going to encourage them to wonder into it out of curiosity. Just the opposite, IMO. Risk, responsibility, and respect are what going encourage someone to wait till the right time for them. Not sweeping it under the rug and pretending it doesn’t exist.
Bringing this full circle, we are all using some form of social networking. Reading this simple blog is a social network of sorts. Then let us use this tool to get out the education, the information, and hell, just a conversation. Let us find ways to get ourselves involved with a great cause that involves something we all enjoy doing anyway.
Antoine of MMM said,
June 11, 2008 at 11:11 am
Ya know sis; I like the way you think. Having knowlege gives us room to empower others to make responsible decsions. The consequences are easier to take when people know the enterity of their actions.
Social networks should defintely be working in this space; I wonder what other caffinated people will be a part of this mix