I'm reading a book called "Fatal Impact" which is about Capt. Cooks "discovery" of Tahiti and the South sea Isles way back in the late 1700s. The author tells us a lot about the attitudes the Tahitians have to pro- creation, to love making, or to what we in the west call sex. It appears that they were completely shameless in this area of humanity, at least that's the way it is reported in the journals that they brought back. Their huts had no walls to hide behind, and sometimes making love would take place in full view of the village, perhaps with the elders even instructing the younger boys and girls how to please their partner of the moment.
Then the other morning I heard a report on radio 4 about how the government want to clamp down on porn on the internet. The laudable reason being, to protect children from accessing these sites, either by design or accident.
Now porn is one thing and procreation is another but it just got me thinking.
Was it Adam and Eve with the fig leaves that got us all hung up about sex. When we invented god we also started down this slippery slope of repression that has ended up with depraved images being beamed down the wires to our browsers. The stuff that we're not supposed to want to see, but millions do, and others make millions from making the images and videos.
What was going on in those South sea islands that made them so innocent and shameless about sex. They didn't know about god, or Adam and Eve, so they just took sex as a normal thing that human beings did for pleasure, and for making babies.
So it just made me question the effect that inventing god, this imaginary friend, has had on the world. Perhaps if Capt. Cook had come back and proclaimed that he had discovered a race of people who had a much more realistic notion of how the world works then things might be different. Instead he came back talking of a race of savages, a race of people more like animals than human beings.
I think that perhaps he was wrong, well him and his shipmates, although I think some of his shipmates, who jumped ship, sussed it straight away and wanted to stay in paradise.
Had we grasped that truth back then, ditched god and original sin and had a Tahitian revolution, at least where sex was concerned we may not be now having a government trying to crack down on the ISPs and the porn industry cause there wouldn't be an industry to crack down on.
Maybe, just saying.
Then the other morning I heard a report on radio 4 about how the government want to clamp down on porn on the internet. The laudable reason being, to protect children from accessing these sites, either by design or accident.
Now porn is one thing and procreation is another but it just got me thinking.
Was it Adam and Eve with the fig leaves that got us all hung up about sex. When we invented god we also started down this slippery slope of repression that has ended up with depraved images being beamed down the wires to our browsers. The stuff that we're not supposed to want to see, but millions do, and others make millions from making the images and videos.
What was going on in those South sea islands that made them so innocent and shameless about sex. They didn't know about god, or Adam and Eve, so they just took sex as a normal thing that human beings did for pleasure, and for making babies.
So it just made me question the effect that inventing god, this imaginary friend, has had on the world. Perhaps if Capt. Cook had come back and proclaimed that he had discovered a race of people who had a much more realistic notion of how the world works then things might be different. Instead he came back talking of a race of savages, a race of people more like animals than human beings.
I think that perhaps he was wrong, well him and his shipmates, although I think some of his shipmates, who jumped ship, sussed it straight away and wanted to stay in paradise.
Had we grasped that truth back then, ditched god and original sin and had a Tahitian revolution, at least where sex was concerned we may not be now having a government trying to crack down on the ISPs and the porn industry cause there wouldn't be an industry to crack down on.
Maybe, just saying.
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