Saturday, February 15, 2014

A RESPONSE TO OM

Here is what I would consider a reasonable response to the practice of OM as outlined in a previous post.  From today's Boulder Daily Camera:

Orgasmic meditation - A slide to deviant behavior, by Susan Littmann.

"I've spent most of the day so far trying to find words for my reaction to your story on orgasmic meditation (“From OM to OMG,” Daily Camera, Feb. 12), but can't really articulate my depression at the new lows to which our culture has descended.
 
In 1993 Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote an essay called “Defining Deviancy Down.” His thesis was that there is a limit to the amount of deviant behavior that any society “can afford to recognize” so that eventually, behavior that once would have been considered deviant is redefined to be normal. We are quickly sliding down that slippery slope to the point where nothing seems to be out of bounds, inappropriate, or at the very least, not mainstreamed in the daily hometown newspaper. Your article just hastened that slide.

However, after turning the page to discover the story about BDSM whips and other sex toys that are ecologically green and nontoxic, I felt so much better. How reassuring to know that our progressive Boulder elites are still on the cutting edge of societal evolution and always deeply concerned about reducing the carbon footprint of their sexual adventures.

14 comments:

Mike said...

Boulder may be on the forefront of the quest for peace and world harmony. I have long held that a person in love or inspired toward that end or otherwise preoccupied with something other than the quest for power and domination would not be one interested in fighting wars and would be much more inclined to live and let live. A person engaged in sexual stimulation or very much looking forward to it in the next few minutes or hours is not one who will be holding up liquor stores or engaging in gang banger drive by shootings. Let us all focus on the clit and save mankind. o

Lucy Fihr said...

What good is a discussion about OM without a "how to?" This is for 18 and over and you need to sign in with a gmail account if you have one, or you can follow the directions and create one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7bCke4LyKs&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DX7bCke4LyKs&has_verified=1

Eleutherios said...

OM looks like it could be an "enriching" practice between a husband and wife. However, commercializing it and practicing it with strangers takes it into the realm of the infamous San Francisco bath houses. BTW, I recommend Lucy's video. Lol!

hoosierdaddy said...

Dear Pseudonym Master - I get most of your "play" on names, but Eleutherios escapes me - explanation??

Eleutherios said...

Eleutherios is not a play on words or a new type of oat breakfast cereal. Was looking for something related to Dionysus, a popular figure in Greek mythology, that I vaguely remember as being connected to things decadent. He was also known as Bacchus. There were Dionysian festivals that featured phallic processions, or penis parades. Then I stumbled across Eleutherios, which one source describes as a “glorious nickname” for Dionysus. If you info.com Eleutherios and check under Wikipedia, it says it means “the liberator” and is an epithet (meaning nickname) of Dionysus and Eros.

DES said...

E - that was quite the lesson on mythology; fascinating but in my world, not particularly useful :-)

Eleutherios said...

Going pragmatic on me, Perfessor? Lol! Reminds of an essay from the text of an English Comp course I took back in the 60's. It was written by Bertrand Russell, titled 'Useless' Knowledge. It can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/145593733/Bertrand-Russell-Useless-Knowledge

Sick Sigman Sez said...

Gentlemen, to each his own. Let Eleutherios ponder Greek mythology and let DES ponder Darwinian mythology. Lol!

The Science Guy said...

SSS - some myths are true but not factual, some are true and factual, and some are simply not true. Evolution is true and factual, and I suspect that most folks who accept this don't know quite what you mean by Darwinian mythology :-)

Nostradumbass said...

Well, Science Guy, guess what it boils down to then is "each to his own axiom." Your axiom is that evolution is true and my axiom is creation is true. My prediction is your axiom will collapse one of these days, based on scientific evidence that will disprove Darwinism. There are already cracks in the evolution axiom, despite the fact that tenures and grants are at stake.

Dr S said...

NostraD - as you know, the folks at BioLogos accept both evolution and creation - just a different version than the story in Genesis. Also, don't swallow the anti-science creationist claim that evolution is crumbling. Of course Darwin got some things wrong, but that was 150 years ago. Basic premise remains - common origins, descent with modification, etc.

Nostradumbass said...

Re: "anti-science claims," I don't believe in science, except for physics, with chemistry a close runner-up. So much fraud, BS, and politics exist in science that "scientific" claims mean nothing to me.

Dr S said...

NDA - since biology is not on your list, I expect that you don't accept the validity of vaccinations, pasteurization, and myriad other biological stuff :-)

Nostradumbass said...

I believe in the validity of vaccinations and pasteurization. But one group of scientists say vaccinations are bad for you and cause autism and another group of scientists say that is wrong. In physics you never hear, "Most scientists agree that F=ma." There is 100% consensus on the laws of classical physics.