Well, we here at decriminalize prostitution are all for sexual arousal, resulting in a cash payment for the happy ending.

Sexuality doesn't frighten me at all. I dont know why tribe is so prudish.

sexual arousal = shame for a lot of people. everyone knows that everyone has sex or there would be no kids. its not something something someone should talk about though because someone else might get sexually aroused or get the wrong idea about a person. its basically just a fear of what someone else will think. i dont see the big deal myself, but some peoplel do or seem to.

In tribe, the porn issue is due to being afraid to cover their ass from the Fed prosecution..IMO
with the existing law regarding keeping the copy of model's id etc, many sites are simply not allowing explicit materials.

That being said tribe folks do strike me as bit insecure about sex.

Fear of sex varies quite a bit from one culture or society to another... it's always based on whatever the local taboo is and there is only one universal human taboo -- that sex in every culture must be controled in *some* way. The *some* way varies *wildly*. There's a good bit of information about how sex is handled in different cultures in the Time Life book (oddly enough) titled Sex and Spirit. You can also check out Margaret Mead's Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies which is mentioned in Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising. For a modern example, the puritanical taboos about pornography that we have in the US aren't really found in much of Europe. Heck, the US is so puritanical that there's even loud debate in some places about women breast-feeding in public... which is a discussion most cultures find to be completely ridiculous. It's all about people reacting emotionally to the things their upbringing trains them to react emotionally about. The reason every culture insists on some moralization of sex is because there's an evolutionary advantage to tribal cohesion, because sex is a very potent physiological and emotional experience and because it's closely related to breeding of course and so therefore having a well-defined moral code where sex is concerned is an effective way of creating tribal cohesion and "social order". It's worked very well in tribal cultures -- it's only in the modern cultures of today that those of us who are able-minded and haven't been too terribly shocked by our early experiences are able to look back on the long line of sexual taboos and consider them silly... Because they are silly when transposed on modern society -- although in the cultures that evolved them, they made sense and promoted the welfare of the tribe (relatively speaking). One rather dramatic example is that island-bound tribal cultures throughout history have found some way to "cull" their population by choosing a specific trait (twins, birthmarks, etc -- arbitrary decisions) and then sacrificing any child born with that trait. To us these acts are far more than absurd, they're "evil" -- to the tribes that developed them, they were a "practical necessity" to control the population and prevent overpopulation from causing severe famine for everyone -- and they rationalized it at the time by saying that the gods would punish them (famine) if they didn't cull these children. Fortunately in today's world, famine is much less common and hopefully becoming less so every day. The reason people in our culture fear sex is because it's a holdover from the puritans who had a very stringent anti-sex morality. It's totally unnecessary in our culture today, but we still struggle with it and associated taboos like the gay-marriage debate merely because it's difficult for most people to see past the conditioned fear of chaos, which these days we describe as "the fall of western civilization" that many of us are convinced gay marriage will cause. We're just in the midst of the slow process of evolving past the need for those kinds of conditioning in recent years (and years to come) to reach a point at which there is free information flow and people can make their own informed decisions about what they want or don't want sexually (and in other ways).

Hi, I'm new here, and this is a very interesting conversation. I think that most people who have a problem with sex are more ashamed of it than afraid of it. And the shame came from their upbringing, or religious indoctrination, often one and the same. Not having had any religion, and not much more upbringing, I never inherited the fear or shame, and just think sex is a wonderful thing, nothing dirty about it. And if I don't feel like going through the game playing to get to it the "normal" way, I feel I should be able to go buy some, just like I should be able to go buy anything else that would make me feel good. I have never paid money up front for sex, but I have been taken to the cleaners by a "gold digger" without realizing it at the time. The sex was wonderful, but I think I overpaid for it.