With the problems the world has today particularly in the West with drug and substance addiction and over-population (resulting in climate change), notwithstanding we have a thread warning that anal shouldn’t be considered a safe method of contraception, anal as the default sexual act could help cure, or at least alleviate these problems.
I think that Western health authorities have changed their stance on anal sex in recent years and are now providing guidelines for healthy and safe anal sex. This is following a similar pattern to safe sex guidelines and contraception in the years prior as the West through off the Christian doctrinal view that sex was only for married couples and that sex was only for the purpose of procreation.
It will probably be a long time before they ever recommend anal sex as a preferred method of sex, but who could have ever thought anal sex would ever be accepted enough to issue guidance of safe anal sex? If you look at the history there is definitely a progression. Imagine a world where anal sex is encouraged as an alternative to substance abuse and overpopulation.
Pleasurist, I appreciate your perspective, I am in agreement, and think your post is both very thoughtful and thought-provoking.
As I am the original poster of the thread regarding “warning that anal shouldn’t be considered a safe method of contraception”, I just want to once again try to make it clear that my concern is to avoid telling people who might not understand the actual science of getting pregnant that anal is not a completely reliable method of birth control. However, I absolutely agree that anal sex done with the idea of doing ones best to not get pregnant is an alternative that is better (as birth control) than unprotected vaginal sex.
In other words, I don’t like setting up a situation were some people will get the idea that if they do anal sex pregnancy will never happen. People who get that kind of idea seem to be predisposed to quickly getting “sloppy” and don’t take reasonable precautions (assuming they don’t want to get create a child). [If they want to have a child, then they should do whatever they want. I am not “anti-child”.]
My concern is that there are many hundreds of millions (if not more) people in the world who just don’t know enough of the facts about getting pregnant. A lot of those people are “young and dumb” – being young usually means being “dumb” and making bad choices. Some of those people don’t have any formal education beyond the 6th grade and just don’t have access to good information. Others have wonderful potential access to education and information, but have been failed by educational systems that seem to believe that if sex is not discussed it won’t happen.
I think that a well-rounded education should include a broad and detailed sexual education, including learning about anal sex and all sorts of other stuff that is even more rarely discussed in public. However, I don’t hold out much hope because some parts of the world has been going in a much more conservative direction lately – a world where “alternative facts” have more impact than actual facts. In the region of the U.S. where I live, the schools hardly manage to teach kids to read and write – and they certainly no longer provide much, if any, information about sex. I am an employer and the vast majority of kids coming out of our high schools (which in the U.S. means after 12 years of schooling) are not qualified to hold a basic low-level office job in my company. It is really sad and does not bode well for any aspect of our (their) future.
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Sex ed at my school was definitely not the best. Ohio’s sex ed policies more generally are pretty bad, they don’t even require that the education being medically accurate!
But the internet is a beautiful thing and I learned a lot that they didn’t teach in class on my own. I actually think my generation is much more open to all kinds of sexual practices, even if that doesn’t show in the sex ed standards. Those standards are mostly written by old people, I think.
The education I received during the equivalent of 7th-9th grade and high school here where I live, taught me some things about sexual activity, mut mainly focused on transmission of diseases, unplanned pregnancy and awareness about sexual harassment. Of course, it’s really valuable information. My school called it “the week of sexuality” where we had to expose about the same sexual themes over and over through the years to other groups and the school would also bring experts for a final presentation in front of all groups.
From all those talks, they almost placed sex in general as this nasty, dangerous thing that will either get you sick, pregnant or in jail, and would left you thinking you’d better not do it. It wa only towards the end of high school that I had this really nice teacher that gave us a real talk about sex (she even asked us if we would try anal… but didn’t specify if receiving or giving, so I said “no” assuming receiving… at least for that time). But (and in theme with the group) what gave me a bit of curiosity was the total lack of talk about anal sex, only mentioned it as “yes yes it exists and it’s the most dangerous” and move on without elaborating.
The shift from “sin” to “utility” is the logical result of a world that can no longer afford overpopulation or the fallout of addiction. By moving sex to the only 100% effective “natural” contraceptive zone, you solve the reproductive crisis while using the body’s highest nerve concentration to provide a dopamine hit that rivals synthetic drugs.
Health authorities issuing “safe anal” guidelines is the first step in this institutionalization. If the West continues to prioritize sustainability over tradition, Anal Only moves from a fetish to a functional, “green” method of human connection that protects the planet and the psyche.