I used the word 'rules' loosely. So let me explain what I mean. Ethics are rules that have evolved over a long period of time, based on whether various forms of behaviour are good or bad for the society.

So, for instance, most religions will tell you it's bad to murder other people. The real reason that it's bad is because if there are people going around murdering other people, it eventually causes instability in society, and when society is unstable, it collapses.

Adultery, sex before marriage, in earlier traditions, possible caused trouble. A father might not know if the child was his. There might be jealousy which would result in violence. Sexual disease (which was incurable) spread.

Over a period of time, these rules came into being, and to enforce them, some priests said they were commanded by god.

The other issue about these rules are that they are indoctrinated (socialized) into human beings as children. They grow up with them. The vast majority keep to the rules. Some don't.

That is demonstrated in the fact that we all, to a greater or lesser degree, don't go round breaking the law, murdering others in the streets, etc.

I have also wondered about why she did that. In an interview, she mentioned that she had always had a deep interest in sex, from about the age of four. She said that she was sleeping around at college, so she didn't see why she shouldn't get paid for it. She also said that her parents knew about this, had nothing to say about it, and that her mother looked after the money.

So tell me this - where does a four year old learn about sex? She says she comes from a normal, happy family. Did she?

Sadly, Greg, I must tell you that while I'm a strong woman, and an independent thinker, I am not a feminist. In my world, I've never been stopped from doing anything that I wanted to do, and if there was something I would have liked to do, because the laws stopped me, I obeyed the law. We have so many choices - why focus on the ones we can't have?

I do not see ambition, the lust for power, or the desire to earn many hundreds of thousands of dollars (and this is what feminists are talking about) as something to be admired.

There are many negatives to the current situation. For instance, when I first dated a man in America, he wanted to know whether I was a first date or a third date woman. I had no idea what it was. I had to ask him. I was appalled. The answer would have been 'probably never.'

Many women feel forced to have sex in order to keep a man - I got this from a friend of mine who ran a dating agency. She told me that the women often said that they slept with the men, because if they didn't, he would find someone else.

Man also mislead women sometimes - they pretend commitment, love, get women drunk, etc. All for the sake of sex. This entire creed benefits men far more than it does women.

Let me share.

I do not have a high sex drive. Once upon a time, I wanted to have a loop inserted because I had finally met a man. The Christian doctor refused because the baby could get caught in the coil, and therefore I must go on the pill. I was loathe to as it has terrible side effects.

I was put on one that was high on progesterone. Shortly after that, I could only think of sex. If I could have, I would have become a prostitute. My entire persona changed. After three months I asked myself why I was feeling this way. I suddenly realized it was the pill. I stopped.

48 hours later, I had no interest in sex.

So, yes, the pill drives up the libido of women, and that probably accounts for a lot of female behaviour today.

Why would women have a lower sex drive than men? I think it depends on whether you look. Where religion has had a dangerous outcome if a woman slept with a man, it was the women who had low sex drives that tended to survive. In African cultures where there was no such thing, the sex drive of the women is as high as the man. Well, it's very high anyway.

Yes, of course, 'psychic costs of such behavior are lasting, crippling and difficult to resolve.' That is why it is a bad idea. Actions are seldom immoral or unethical in themselves. They become immoral or/and unethical when one counts the long term cost to the whole.

You ask, "Is our society so sick that it cannot give impressionable young women any other goal except this one?"

We don't know what her goal was. It might simply have been easy money. What become apparent in the interview is that she had no particular morality with regards to sex. That might have been the society she grew up in. We imbibe the values of those we surround ourselves with.

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