• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Downvote because you didn’t explain your position at all. You state an unpopular opinion. You don’t give any meat to the topic, and then you peace out.

    Sorry, but no.

  • EgoNo4@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Dropping the opinion without an explanation… Kind of like farting and walking away…

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    As others pointed out, it might help if you elaborate on your position in the comments. This would make a healthy debate possible.

    On the substance - I think sex before marriage should remain normal, and there are many benefits to it. For one, sexual compatibility is a big factor for many people when it comes to building lasting relationships - and you won’t know it unless you try. Better sexual chemistry improves long-term romance, improves mental health, and may also contribute to fertility, so this is not something to look over. Also, making such a big deal out of sexual relationships can make it more frustrating if they don’t go perfect right from the start - and being married, you are now trapped, which doesn’t really help.

    If I want to marry a person, I want to know them as much as possible - I want to know them as a friend, as a lover, as a sexual partner, as a person to share household with, and many more. I’d love to see them as a parent, too, but this is too big of a commitment with other person’s fate on the line, so parenting goes after marriage. Sex does not have such properties, and I see no sense in putting that goalpost so far.

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    2 months ago

    How do you suggest “un-normalizing” it?

    It’s a natural urge. Trying to ban it by law or religion is about as realistic as banning people from breathing out of the mouth instead of the nose.

    Trying to make it culturally unacceptable also won’t work. It’s already culturally unacceptable to pick your nose and eat it, but some people still do that too whenever they think nobody is watching.

    You’ll find that countries that have either banned it or made it unacceptable have much higher crime rates including rape.

    That’s how illegalization generally works. It only creates more illegal situations, because it surely doesn’t stop people from doing it.