sexuality again

It's a topic I return to way too often, maybe. I think I actually wrote about this before, but I've found new ways to describe the problem that I keep sensing so often.

It's in the way we talk about sex, it's in all those euphemisms, all those descriptions, you know - sexual thoughts being dirty or even wicked, for example. Discussions or laughs about sexuality being perceived as crude, low-brow.

At the core of this lies some ancient notion that sex is wrong - and it's wrong to delve too far into our own sexuality. Isn't it high time that we began to consciously purge this notion from our lives? Open our eyes and see how it has been creeping for ages into our ways of thinking, our vocabulary, planted firmly in these strange corners of our minds through a sort of societal gestalt.

Of course, in these days human sexuality is becoming a far more open topic, but it's still not something completely natural to us. There are still inhibitions in place. The topic still demands some respect due to how special love and sex are (or, at least, should be) in our lives, but respect should not be confused with fear.

Here's something that touches on the subject as well, a compilation from Bill Hick's sketches.