<p>Wonderful. Liberals are now animals. Dang.</p>
<p>the thing about love is stupid. your love for parents doesnt just wear off after a few years, nor your children. and lots of spouses love one another even after they divorce. my my silly silly.</p>
<p>It also depends on what you center your life around. If it's this "soul mate" stuff, then so be it. That's what you choose, and there's nothing wrong with that if you think about it in terms of general happiness. Everyone has a different way to attain this ultimate goal of happiness. So we don't all agree, but that doesn't make any of us wrong in those terms.
Other people are pessimistic and skeptical (<em>raises hand</em>) about these things. They prefer work over love, or money over love. Some don't believe love exists and that it is but a pleasure of the moment that evaporates the very next moment.
If you center your life around love and sex, then there's nothing wrong with premartial sex in your terms. It's just "wrong" in the eyes of a person holding a different opinion, especially those who have had bad experiences with "love" and concluded that it's fickle and work/money yields more stable happiness.</p>
<p>More about this liberal animals business!</p>
<p>AD HOMINUMMMMMMMM!!! Guh.</p>
<p>You, of course, are assuming that happiness is stable. It isn't, and is highly affected by events that happen to oneself and how the events are percieved by one's brain.
And of course, I can't see how no one has figured out that the root of suffering is desire (at least Siddhartha Gautama did).</p>
<p>OoooOOo000ooOo...what animal can i be?! I wanna be a CHIMPANZEE!</p>
<p>I wanna be a panda. A nympho panda. So that I can raise the population of pandas.</p>
<p>Aren't giant pandas supposed to be endangered? If so, that would be a good thing. I just hope that you don't have a 1:1 fertility ratio, because that would mean a few thousand babies to one mother. I think only mosquitos are that bad.</p>
<p>I must say CC tangents are very unique and amusing. :)</p>
<p>There was a time when saying one would have sex as frequently as a mosquito was a really, really bad insult; I believe it was the Shakespearean way of calling someone a slut (Othello).</p>
<p>Yes, giant pandas are endangered. I believe there are about 300~ in the wild.</p>
<p>Meh. You should have sex when you are ready and responsible enough to know the consequences and have knowledge of effective contraceptive methods.</p>
<p>If that is the same time as when you get married, then its all fine and dandy.</p>
<p>But marriage shouldn't be the prime deciding factor whether to have sex or not. Maturity should.</p>
<p>Well, to each his/her own, eh? :)</p>
<p>I don't think anyone should be sleeping around, but you don't have to keep it in your pants until you're married. If you are committed and in love, I'd say go for it. I had sex with my first boyfriend for the first time six months after I felt I loved him and well... It's been two years and we're still together. So just do it when you know</p>
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<p>that is interesting. can you give me some sources?</p>
<p>Its funny that people assume that waiting for marriage means that your waiting for that special one, when 50% of marriages end in divorce.</p>
<p>It's just sex. Really.</p>
<p>Ive heard several times that it's a chem reaction but I've never actually seen proof. but it does seem like a logical thing to say; the wholwe body is a coktail of chemical reactions</p>
<p>Hmmm. I'm ready to respect just about any take on premarital sex, as long as it doesn't involve disrespecting yourself. (So promiscuous sex/"sleeping around" is out.)</p>
<p>I plan to wait at least until I graduate from high school, but at the rate I'm going (17 years old, never had a boyfriend, gone on a date or been kissed) I'll be a nun. :p (Erm... too bad I'm not in the least bit religious. :p)</p>
<p>Well, I respect kids who wait till marriage, but some kids cave in before marriage...after all, many divorces don't look good on your record & marriage is like a huge committment...my best (guy) friend is waiting (i'm a girl), and that's respectful in my eyes, that he doesn't cave in to peer pressure. But who knows, you may never get married, you may turn down the best sex in your life by waiting, maybe you'll lose your sex drive if you marry at an old age...</p>
<p>so i see both ways and don't criticize either. i'm going to wait (i hope), no one around here worth having sex with..well, except maybe 1 or 2 guys, but i'm not obsessed over either.</p>
<p>How is having sex before you marry is "caving in?"</p>