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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Planned Parenthood, the wisdom issue
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 22:20:55 EDT
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> Frankly, I find both sides of this "should Planned Parenthood
> give Moral ADVICE" debate stupid.  It seems to me that pre-marital
> sex, adolescent sex, etc, are all easily lumpable under the heading
> of "wisdom", i.e. is it WISE to behave in a given manner?
> 
> While I'd think it was absolutely idiotic to say to
> a kid that "it's immoral to have premarital sex,
> even if you don't believe in my God and teachings,
> because I say so",

I suspect that morality was developed (a long time ago) to keep society
from being wiped out by venereal disease.  Think about it.  Any society
with venereal disease that didn't limit sexual contact somehow would
eventually sterilize all the females and disappear.  Monogamy is 
reasonable and successful approach to the problem.  Note that societies
such as Polonesia that had no venereal disease (before the white man
came) were very promiscuous with no serious problems.  When syphlis and
gonorea were conquered by drugs and the pill came out, we thought free
sex was great, and it was.  The hidden problem arose when herpes and
AIDS got into the picture.  Basically, sex is a great way to spread
disease.