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- Apr 3, 2021
"Life is but a penis."
I've been thinking about that quote a lot. I like it, in a very vague, platonic sort of way. I especially like that it can be taken two ways, one being that the "life is but a penis" line of thought could be taken as a metaphor for the natural state of man/woman -- as a way to say that men and women are the same, that if the parts match up they're all good.
It's a nice thought, but then again, it's also a very vague thought, and, well, there are always two sides to every question. For example, a penis isn't just a penis, it's also a means of reproduction. And the quote doesn't really make sense if taken to mean that woman's "natural state" is somehow less than what a man is.
So this is the part where I'm supposed to say something about the vagina and clitoris, and how having sex with someone who's a virgin is different from having sex with someone who isn't. Except that if I have anything to say about that I'll get flamed, because some people say that if a woman has sex before marriage (or with someone other than her husband) that it's wrong because it could ruin her life. I think, to use the analogy I use all the time, it's like that -- if I had a bad marriage I would think it ruined my life and then I'd be miserable and wouldn't want to have sex.
But, anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying that I'm actually not sure what I'd want to say, and that I'd prefer to leave this topic as it is -- a topic that has been debated countless times and that no one has yet to come up with anything particularly new or insightful.
That, and there's no point to writing something when the very point of writing it is so pointless.
But, I guess I've been thinking about this for so long now that I'll finish out by writing what I've always thought, which is this: "Life is but a penis."
There. It's done. Now I can go back to thinking about things that really matter.
I've been thinking about that quote a lot. I like it, in a very vague, platonic sort of way. I especially like that it can be taken two ways, one being that the "life is but a penis" line of thought could be taken as a metaphor for the natural state of man/woman -- as a way to say that men and women are the same, that if the parts match up they're all good.
It's a nice thought, but then again, it's also a very vague thought, and, well, there are always two sides to every question. For example, a penis isn't just a penis, it's also a means of reproduction. And the quote doesn't really make sense if taken to mean that woman's "natural state" is somehow less than what a man is.
So this is the part where I'm supposed to say something about the vagina and clitoris, and how having sex with someone who's a virgin is different from having sex with someone who isn't. Except that if I have anything to say about that I'll get flamed, because some people say that if a woman has sex before marriage (or with someone other than her husband) that it's wrong because it could ruin her life. I think, to use the analogy I use all the time, it's like that -- if I had a bad marriage I would think it ruined my life and then I'd be miserable and wouldn't want to have sex.
But, anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying that I'm actually not sure what I'd want to say, and that I'd prefer to leave this topic as it is -- a topic that has been debated countless times and that no one has yet to come up with anything particularly new or insightful.
That, and there's no point to writing something when the very point of writing it is so pointless.
But, I guess I've been thinking about this for so long now that I'll finish out by writing what I've always thought, which is this: "Life is but a penis."
There. It's done. Now I can go back to thinking about things that really matter.