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Monday, July 20, 2015
Kicking Out the Duggers; Changing Our Attitudes
I DON'T WATCH MUCH TV, so I'm at a disadvantage here. Quick question: are the Kardashians or the Duggers (or is it Duggars? oh well, either way) kooler? They both must be rather exciting groups of people, and I think I actually live right down the road from the real life dugger fam, so, I should know. After all, they are celebrities. Even I know that the Duggers, all twenty something of them, were kicked off prime time TV due to revelations of past sex play among the children, Tsk tsk. Crazy story, as you would expect. Some years ago, it seems that the oldest child, a male, engaged in sex play with several of his many younger sisters. The parents apparently dealt with it in-family, and moved on. Not the end of the world. The years came and went, and more children came, then, celebrity, fame, and wealth. (you'd be looking for extra income too, if you had twenty kids). But then recently some dirt digger revealed the old news, and that, as they say, was that. Even more than elevating people to celebrity status, we Americans love to bring them tumbling down in ignominious disgrace. But here's the dirty little secret: many, if not most human siblings engage in sex play. This fact is confirmed solidly by many studies. Its sinful or perverted only if we choose to label it that, depending on social mores, which frequently, understandably, include an aversion to in breeding, but one thing childhood sibling sex play most certainly is, is normal. Hurray for bio diversity! The Duggers doubtless dealt with their situation religiously and sinfully; they being the Christian sort. Maybe we should consider a scientific approach, with a science base morality, free of religious or emotional dogma and guilt. Or maybe we should reconsider our sexual mores, and fundamentally reform them. It seems reasonable; since every other aspect of human society needs reform, why not our attitudes about human sexuality? Maybe one way to start would be by starting to tell children to tone it down, and be careful. We want everyone to behave safely and, if at all possible virtuously, but we remain realistic in our expectations, we hope.
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