So I am a furious Vixen at the moment. Someone posted a challenge to our community, then deleted it and then deleted their account.
I get it, that's part of the way Reddit works. It's also why sometimes I wait a few days before I reply to a sensitive post.
Posting on social media is a risk. You never know how your message will be received. You either post with conviction, or you can be what the person I am referring to is; a coward. The person threw a posting grenade into a subreddit of people who really care about a very sensitive and confusing topic which is Christian Sexuality. There are people on this subreddit who express their support in what I say and there are those who politely think I will burn in hell. BUT all parties are civil 99% of the time. I have had many respectful dialogs with those who disagree with me. And in honesty, I have learned from some of these dialogs.
In the case of this post, it was clear that the person wasn't serious, but instead was poking fun at all points of view. The poster could not even get the LGBTQ spelled correctly (their exact spelling is in the heading post).
So I have a suggestion. In the future, when someone posts something like this. Instead of responding, reply with "are you serious?". Wait a few days and if the person responds and does not delete their account or the post, then by all means, let's start a dialog.
I had written something for that post only to find when I had logged back on, it was deleted along with the profile. It's too bad there isn't a patron saint of "I hope you don't get laid for a month" that we could curse them with.
I have come to very much appreciate everyone in this subreddit, regardless of your being pro or con on the issue of Christian's participating in recreational sex. So thank you for reading what I have to say, thank you for your posts and contributions, and thank you for the many direct messages I enjoy dialoging with from all of you.
As Paul said in his second letter to the Church at Corinth, "You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!"
Thank you! I appreciate that you read my posts. And thank you for responding with your post.
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You did. It was the first post to respond and I noted it. I was asked to research the correlations between porn and mainstream impressions for MarCom in the vanilla world. The goal was to build a survey out of "safe" porn topics to create background interferences for marketing campaigns. Remember - sex sells is a truism and "Sex Sells Everything" is a reality. So why would I bring this up?
I hope you consider a bit more in your statement that porn can drive incestual behaviors. I used to think that when I was younger and before I became jaded by the realization of how EVERYONE and EVERYTHING and EVERY INSTITUTION uses sex to sell messages. Perhaps its why I woke up one day and discovered I could become really good at marketing. I just had to get past my Catholic X 4 guilt factor for being a horny Catholic girl.
The assumption that porn drives behaviors is not totally accurate. Porn in an addiction, porn can give someone unrealistic assumptions and beliefs about what sex and sexual norms are, but they seldom promote desires that we would consider abnormal such as incest. In real-life, the sequelae of incest is more often disfunction (in some cases radically dysfunctional) in a family or with adult relationships that drive the desire to engage in incest. This can also spark some to desire pedophile behaviors as well.
Whenever a topic like this comes up, I always return to the roots of anything I have read, studied, or observed and I came across a quote that I underlined when researching sex, marketing and communications.
“People don’t choose what arouses them — they discover it,” said Dr. Fred Berlin, director of the Johns Hopkins Sex and Gender Clinic.
Thank you for your last sentence! What you say about this crew is spot on and I thank you for it... upvote... ding!