Ponderizations of a Crazy Calvinist

What's Normal?

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing

Kind of strikes me as odd sometimes, how what God put in place can often be seen as not normal, and can be given medical names or labels.

Job 311 "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.

Acts 1520Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

To quote just two such references.

Yet, if you believe the media, or other things that let in things of the world, you'd believe the correct answer when filling in forms which ask you the question Sex? to state which gender you are, is "yes please" Makes me wonder what happened to love in the equation. Same as people head straight into a relationship, often without really knowing each other. What happened to dating, courting and the like? maybe why the statistics are as they are concerning marriage and divorce.

New Scientist magazine reported in October that psychologists seem to be reclassifying people who are permanently uninterested in sex, from the old notion that such behavior was a disorder to the emerging position that it is merely a sexual preference of "none of the above." (Asexuals profess no sexual attraction at all, encompassing loners reluctant to associate with people and gregarious, caring people whose natural inclination is to relate to others nonsexually.) Recent research estimated that 1 percent of the population is asexual, and in previous research, 40 percent of asexuals described themselves as "extremely" or "very" happy. An asexuality support group (AVEN) touts its best-selling T-shirt, "Asexuality: It's not just for amoebas anymore." [New Scientist, 10-14-04]

I hate questions of most any kind, that are personal or seem invasive... which is probably why the smart alec answers come to mind, as with the gender question. But, this one, I would just take the fifth, like Yankee doodle dandies do on TV, for fear of incriminating myself!