3. Alastair Norcross - The Immorality of Premarital Abstinence

Alastair Norcross - The Immorality of Premarital Abstinence

It's funny how people use the word "protection." Protection against the propagation of the species, the "need" in question?

Yes, its a subconscious sort of thing. I desperately do not want to get anyone pregnant, I go to a lot of trouble and expense just to ensure that. Yet, I sleep around like crazy because my body is telling me to. Ever hear of the baby crazies? Biological clock ticking? Girls around 25-35 start desperately wanting to get pregnant? Man its our biology trying to trick us into propagating the species.

which is completely unsustainable as a societal model.

I'm genuinely confused by that, why do you think that?

I'm 30, and I've been abstinent my entire life. I know many people who are similar. And many who have had many sexual partners but now do not.

What? You're 30 years old and you've never? I'm sorry man. Have you considered using an escort? There is this place you can look up called "backpage" and they have legit escorts.

What does religion have to do with anything?

Well sometimes people have the same opinions as I do but for different reasons. My FWB talks to me about her husband from time to time and he and I have a lot of the same opinions but he has them because he's a devoted catholic and I have them because of factual evidence among my own experiences.

People who have hookup sex or look at pornography all the time, who are oversexualized all the time, tend to have more insatiable drives.

I can't argue with that I look at porn most days and masturbate or have sex every day. I get the same feelings with a lot of things I do in life. Going to the gym every day, improving myself, working on cars and busting my ass at work, all of these things increase my drive.

the people tend to be unvirtuous.

I've got to be honest I'm not a very moral person, but I tend to have a good time.

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