Posted by fschmidt on
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You have membership now and can read the private forum.  I don't agree with everything you wrote, but agreeing with me is not a criteria for membership.  The main criteria is showing that you can think for yourself.  I think it's important to discuss things at least enough to understand where everyone is coming from.  I will respond now to your post.

I am a big fan of religion for reasons I explain in the private forum.  If you look up monogamy on Wikipedia, you will see that it has several aspects.  I support marital and genetic monogamy.  Sexual monogamy is only relevant for women.  The Old Testament mostly supports this position.  The word "adultery" in the Old Testament means sex with another man's wife.  I think the Old Testament perspective on this subject is as close to perfect as one can find, and certainly better than that of Sexual Utopia in Power.

The closest one can come to utopia is the system found in almost all rising cultures, namely strict rules for marriage plus prostitution to satisfy the male desire for variety.  This system is entirely possible to implement today if a group of men would actually support it.

The question of responsibility is complicated by the fact that women are not at all like men and cannot really think for themselves.  In terms of responsibility, women are more like children than they are like men.  The responsibility for organizing society belongs entirely with men.  Men delegating this responsibility to women, by giving them the vote for example, is as nonsensical as delegating it to children.  So the real responsibility for the political disaster caused by women voting belongs to those men who gave women the vote.

What should be done is a matter for the private forum.