Sex pursued without risk or fear of consequences carries numerous subsidiary dangers. The biggest of these lies in the relative freedom to pursue many different kinds of sexual adventure .There is now a real possibility that a significant percentage of the world's population will quickly come to realize how silly, stupid, pointless, innocuous and even disgusting most sexual activity is.This may lead the mass of mankind to shun it before Nature has had a chance to trick the unwary into having children.
The debate inaugurated by Empedocles in the Socratic era over the primary and secondary characteristics of matter provides the key to this modern dilemma. By way of illustration let me review the way in which, historically, it has been applied to the dogma of the Transubstantiation of the Host. Well into the 17th century a theological debate of horrific intensity raged over how and when Christ manifested his presence in the wine and wafer taken during Holy Communion. It was recognized that the wafer normally tasted like day-old matzo, while the wine, if not diluted, could and did make many a priest drunk. Church doctrine taught that it was a mortal sin to confuse the taste and odor of matzo, or the drunkenness induced by the wine, with the supramundane presence of the body of the Lord, an 'essence' standing apart from these base 'accidents'.
It was for questioning the sanity of this doctrine that Galileo was hauled before the Inquisition, excommunicated and put under permanent house arrest. Reference: "Galileo Heretic", Pietro Redondi; Princeton UP 1987.
Now, sex is just like the transubstantiation of the Host. Even the most delicious sexual partner oozes body odors, disgusting substances like mucus, piss , pus, saliva and shit, breaks wind during the consummation of the act, often has stinking breath, sneezes, belches and farts, and smells like an old pair of sneakers after a workout on a hot day. Even the poisonous carbon dioxide that she or he exhales in the bedchamber robs her or his mate of much needed oxygen.
Persons gripped by the claws of Love are all too willing to dismiss these noxious substances as the secondary characteristics of Empedocles, or the accidents of Transubstantiation. They will be unable to find any connection between these and that sublime inner "something" which is allegedly co-joined in copulation. Like the bull who has been hypnotized by the flapping of a red blanket into believing he is in no danger, they are certain that the 'real essence of the Beloved', like the presence of Christ in the wafer and wine, stands eternally apart from the sickening, debased and degrading minutae of an act of sexual congress. So powerful is this conviction, that lovers can find themselves immersed, like rats in a dumpster, in an atmosphere reeking with the sounds, sights and smells of a garbage truck, and imagine themselves in Paradise.
Be warned! Once the human race discovers that the loathsome, so-called secondary characteristics are all that's there, everyone will realize that he or she is being hoodwinked. The realization that a human being is either a bag of shit, or destined soon to become one, will have appalling consequences!
There may or may not be a soul at the core of this decaying ediface of putrescence, but even experts like Casanova, Lord Byron, Madame de Chatelet or Alma Mahler -Kokoshka -Gropius-Werfel would agree that it enters nowhere in the sex act, which is nothing more nor less than a kind of scam or trick perpetrated by Nature upon rational beings for the purposes of Darwinian (at best Chardinian) evolution. It is impossible to imagine that anyone will ever dedicate him or herself to the grim business of perpetuating the species, if the act required to do this inspires only nausea and repulsion.
Yet what will happen if the human race dies out because the freedom to experiment has revealed the true character of copulation? How will we have enough soldiers to fight the Taliban and other enemies of the state? Where will we find the bus drivers to take us to work in the morning? Where will we find the migrant workers to pick our crops, the shopkeepers to remain open every week day from 9 to 5, the coal miners to heat our homes, the factory workers to provide us with dresses, cigarettes, Tupperware and transistors, the janitors to clean our office buildings?
Mankind's numbers will not remain steady without propagation. Propagation comes through sex. Unrestricted sex provides the average human with enough experience to know how unpleasant it really is.
In a few words, sex education is an attack on the human race.It must be banned immediately.