Most people hate logic.

[Angrboda]

That's sorta the point here.

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Most people will be absolutely repulsed by the idea of buying a used dildo. But this isn't born of logic, but emotionalism.

Consider - Do you insist that your sex partner is a virgin? Most people don't these days. So why is that OK, but a used sex toy is "dirty"?

If cleanliness is the issue - remember that at best - the most your partner can do is use soap and water to clean their "equipment".

A dildo - you can wash - soak overnight in bleach, peroxide, ammonia, or alcohol - or all four. You can even stick it in an autoclave, and make it as sterile as surgical equipment.

Try that with your boyfriend's pecker.


Price wise -- a garage sale would be cheaper than most anywhere else. I haven't seen one at a garage sale - but it's sort of an uptight neighborhood around here.

I'd imagine if you hit a garage sale in the Mission District in San Francisco - you'd probably find a dildo or two. So - in theory at least -- you'd be better off buying at a garage sale rather than a retail environment.


And - as far as privacy - you'd be better off in a retail environment - or a garage sale - than you would online shopping -- where buying a dildo is likely to get you inundated with some really tacky spam - that you certainly wouldn't want your kids seeing.


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Thus - logic dictates something contrary to the usual response.

Actually, that's not entirely true. Objection to the use of a used dildo stems from concerns about purity, one of the core intuitions undergirding ethics. And ethics exists to prevent bad things from happening. So when you ignore your intuitions regarding purity, you are encouraging violation of ethical norms, and violation of ethical norms is bad, for emotional reasons, granted, but some emotional reasons, such as preventing bad things from happening, are valid justifications for a course of action. What you mean is that it is illogical to do things purely for emotional reasons that are divorced from objective fact. In this case, the emotions are not divorced from objective fact, but rather rooted in an evolved concern for purity which is important to the well ordered functioning of society. One might argue that purity as a moral value, while at one time serving a legitimate function in promoting the interests of our species, no longer serves that function, and so any decisions based upon a concern for purity are irrational, but that would be a different argument, and you have not established that claim. So, while I applaud your cunning, and appreciate that you are attempting to make a point, that point is ultimately spoiled by the facts.

This points up a very important lesson. Logic alone, if lacking the relevant facts, can readily lead you astray.