(September 28, 2017 at 6:49 pm)Macoleco Wrote: Technology and medicine advance every day. Eventually, science will allow us to remove our sexual desire willingly.
Would you do it?
I imagine a lot of people would. Those who wish only to work without distractions. Those brokenhearts. Etc etc. All kind of stories. What do you think?
Very interesting thread.
I was born with a major physical disability 41 years ago. When I was growing up, I felt beholden to a percieved (and I think very real) taboo against the visibly physically disabled being sexual at all, including but not limited to actually having sex and foreplay. Between that and having moved around a lot, and having issues making the right friends/enemies, I do not have any romantic experience whatsoever. I am developmentally completely behind on this aspect of socialization.
That said, I do look at pics, and communicate on sites like fetlife, etc. And that's satisfying in a way, but it's also time consuming. Would I still have problems if I were able-bodied? Maybe. And maybe not. I'll never be able to tell. But it is maddening having these feelings and not being able to as easily act on them due in part to these societal constructs in my way.
Would removing sexual desire at he flip of a switch cure all my problems? Most definitely no. But it might help me focus on what I can achieve in life, and is important for me to achieve.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
