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Next sexual taboo to be lifted?

What will be next sexual taboo to be lifted?

  • Incest

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Zoophillia

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ephebophilia

    Votes: 1 4.5%
  • Necrophilia

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Polygamy

    Votes: 12 54.5%
  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • Total voters
    22
Polygamy . . . no debate - why not?
 
Oh gosh, I'm posting on this thread. We don't need to codify polygamy with laws. Just keep marriage between two people. They could be two women in a polygamous group. It gives the group the same coverage that two people married have. If one dies, marry the third, inheritance etc. are covered. I bet this is happening now. If there are four there could be two legal marriages, etc. This needn't be complicated.

But you're no longer talking about polygamy then, you're doing serial monogamy. Besides, it doesn't change anything, people together longer than 7 years are automatically common law married in most states. There are still custody issues and support issues even if you try to sidestep the legal problems.
 
By the way public nudity will get you on the sex offender list if you are a male.

If you're a female, the worst that can happen is a citation for indecent exposure or disorderly conduct.

I'll just take your word for it - I'm not about to find out.

Public sex, though, has the same judgment no matter what :D
 
I'll just take your word for it - I'm not about to find out.

Public sex, though, has the same judgment no matter what :D

In my younger days a few of my friends in their late teens got busted for public sex. The cops used the darkness to sneak up on them and then turned their flashlights on them. Scared the heck out of my friends. Then the cops told them to go home, there were no charges filed against my teenage friends.

I'm not sure what today's cops do.
 
It will be polygamy. Opponents will be accused of being Muslim-hating bigots.
 
It will be polygamy. Opponents will be accused of being Muslim-hating bigots.

Or Mormon hating bigots


I am rather certain that mormans decided to drop polygamy for persecution reasons, rather then religious revalation ones
 
Nah. Hating Mormons is cool - after all, they oppose gay marriage. So do Muslims, but Muslims are part of our rich cultural tapestry, and if you dislike Muslims it' makes you racist, even though most Muslims aren't Arabs. What are you, a Nazi?
 
In my younger days a few of my friends in their late teens got busted for public sex. The cops used the darkness to sneak up on them and then turned their flashlights on them. Scared the heck out of my friends. Then the cops told them to go home, there were no charges filed against my teenage friends.

I'm not sure what today's cops do.

LOL

There's a point at which your property becomes public and that usually changes depending on the activity being done therupon
 
Fornication, miscegenation, adultery and homosexuality were all in past unmoral things today normal 100%.
What is going to be next big thing?

Necrophilia - who really cares they are dead they won't mind
Ephebophilia - there is party in Holland that is fighting for this Partij voor Naastenliefde, Vrijheid & Diversiteit
Zoophillia - animals are getting rights really fast today; also support from PNDV
Incest - use condom and everything is going to be alright

Don't say nothing! If someone asked 50 years ago about gays they would tell to you not to support sick people.
Don't say this isn't provocative I am serious.

I had to google "Ephebophilia"
 
in turkey ,islamists tend to abuse all kinds of civil rights ( as they abuse the religious rules).and maybe because of this, a great majority of people including me here do not support polygamy..our perception of polygamy usually depends on the islamist perversions.
 
Zoophillia- illegal and immoral because one party cannot give consent.

Forgive me if somebody else brought this up, I don't have time right now to read every post.

Do animals give consent to be slaughtered and eaten, and/or made into clothing and glue?

(this is not to say I condone sex with animals.....just wondering why consent is the argument regarding animals)
 
The premise of this thread is flawed, because it presumes that homosexual behavior is abnormal and should be illegal.

Actually, that doesn't seem to be the premise...it seems to be you stereotyping hte OP and projecting a premise onto it.

From what it actually SAYS, it seems to suggest that Homosexual sexual behavior was at one point in American society considered Taboo (which, to be quite frank, it factually was) but has became now at least significantly more accepted if not fully accepted.

Something being "Taboo" has less to do with it's legality and more to do with societal acceptance of something as being within the mainstream.

That said, there are far more things that were viewed as a "taboo" I think in the past that are less taboo now. Anal and Oral Sex in and of themselves I think are far less taboo in the modern day, as are threesomes involving two females. There was a time the notoin of sex toys were incredibly taboo and now they've got theme night parties women can host in their houses.

Surprisingly enough, I do actually think the taboo of a significantly older person with a younger person, specifically that late teen 16-19 type of range but early 20's as well, will be one that is next most likely to fade. You already see it a bit with the advent of "Cougars" which brings the notion of an older woman with a much young male into the mainstream. That's the funny thing with Taboo's...when there's not a political issue attached to it people do'nt seem to have as much issues with it being taboo. Put a clearly 30 year old woman walking around and being couply and doing some PDA's with a clearly 18 year old and depending on location I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar reaction to that as you'd see at times if it was two gay 20 year olds doing it.
 
Probably all of them...some believe as long as its a loving consensual relationship its all good and everyone that doesnt agree has to shutup.
 
Maybe they'll deactivate the sodomy laws in states that still have them enforcable.

Texas doesn't allow you to butt-hump, you know.
Also, there is/used to be a law saying you couldn't but a dildo...but you could buy a "cake-topper"...or some such nonsense. Basically, you couldn't call a spade a spade.
 
Forgive me if somebody else brought this up, I don't have time right now to read every post.

Do animals give consent to be slaughtered and eaten, and/or made into clothing and glue?

(this is not to say I condone sex with animals.....just wondering why consent is the argument regarding animals)

good point.but the consumption of meat has always been an evolutional fact of human rather than being damned like zoophilia.but I cant support them being hurt and abused to take the advantage of the benefits of their skins.
 
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Maybe they'll deactivate the sodomy laws in states that still have them enforcable.

Texas doesn't allow you to butt-hump, you know.
Also, there is/used to be a law saying you couldn't but a dildo...but you could buy a "cake-topper"...or some such nonsense. Basically, you couldn't call a spade a spade.


That doesnt address the poll answers though...used to be a law in NYC that a consensual couple couldnt have oral sex too....we know how that worked out...
 
Is there a law against having sex with dead animals?
 
That doesnt address the poll answers though...used to be a law in NYC that a consensual couple couldnt have oral sex too....we know how that worked out...

I know, I was just throwin' it out there. And it kind of relates...I would think we'd address less extreme taboos first before we start discussing the right of a man to screw his chickens.
 
I know, I was just throwin' it out there. And it kind of relates...I would think we'd address less extreme taboos first before we start discussing the right of a man to screw his chickens.

The point to be made...is where does it stop. The same excuses and reasoning for any moral change can be applied to any moral situation.
Father and daughter, Mother and Son. Grandmother and Grandson..etc.....Im sure theres some that could say with "Conviction" If its a loving consensual relationship who are we and the govt to say they cant get married and were denying them their civil rights.
 
The point to be made...is where does it stop. The same excuses and reasoning for any moral change can be applied to any moral situation.
Father and daughter, Mother and Son. Grandmother and Grandson..etc.....Im sure theres some that could say with "Conviction" If its a loving consensual relationship who are we and the govt to say they cant get married and were denying them their civil rights.

I think we have to set a standard. If sound-minded consenting adults wish to enter into contract with one another, they should be allowed to do so. That makes it simple and eradicates much of the rest of the issue.

As another stated, animals, children, corpses...they can't consent to enter into contract. If we're merely discussing sex we can still discuss consent and the legal ability to do so. We can then also discuss the obvious and inherent damage done to children and animals through sexual intercourse with an adult (all of which is well documented and readily available). As for the corpse...it's pretty easy to say once something is dead it is off limits to any number of things (sex, desicration, etc) unless signed off to prior to death by the individual.

In any case, there is not a single study that shows that gay sex is inherently and always emotionally, physically, or culturally damaging. There are higher risks for certain issues within the homosexual community, but certain catagories of straights also have a higher risk than the average, and we don't ban or outlaw them from having sex or entering into contract.

I think people make it more convuluted than it needs to be. Does it inherently cause harm based on scientific data and research, or is it likely to cause harm? Are the parties involved willing and able to consent to the actions taking place? Is there any reason to believe that either party is being coerced into participation or forced to act in the manner displayed?

:shrug:
 
Where will it stop?

It's hard to say but its really fully dependent on society and culture. Taboo's are an invented notion placed upon acts and things by society due to the majority of societies OPEN views on the matter at hand. The "standard" we have now of "sound-minded consenting adults" could go the wayside just as much as the standards that defined what was taboo in the 1900's or 1950's or even 1990's. At the same time, if the culture hits a point where it shifts back the other direction things that are no longer Taboo could become taboo again.

I think by and large as things become Taboo or remove themselves from Taboo it basically works as a balancing act...society gains some benefits of it doing that and loses some benefits by it occuring. How one judges the situation is essentially based on which set of benefits that individual finds more important in their view for society. But it all revolves around the outward thought process of society at large.
 
I voted other because I believe that the next sexual taboo will be put into place, not lifted. Flash forward to the year 2028.

Raleigh, NC (APLOL) - Today, in a surprise announcement, North Carolina put repeal of the Masturbation Ban Amendment on the ballot. For 12 years, this amendment to North Carolina's Constitution, which equates masturbation with serial killing, and provides the death penalty to those who masturbate, has been the center of a protracted war between Democrats and Republicans in that state. Neither the Democratic nor the Republican presidential candidate had any comment to make on this announcement, as neither feels that North Carolina's 3 electoral votes are worth going after.
 
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