The thing is, I also view sex as an extremely intimate thing... for me. If other people don't feel the same connection that I do between emotional intimacy and sex, and consider protected casual sex to simply be a form of physical recreation, why is that stupid? I could see thinking someone stupid if they had the same sex=intimacy feelings that I did and still had casual sex, because they'd be making themselves highly emotionally-vulnerable to people they didn't know. But if sex doesn't have those attributes in their mind? Then I don't see what's stupid about it.
Nor do I expect everyone to have exactly the same preferences and priorities that I do; someone isn't stupid or immature for having butter-pecan as their favorite ice cream flavor, even if it seems blatantly obvious to me that chocolate is far superior. But it seems like you think a person is stupid and immature if they don't relate to sex emotionally in the same way that you do. Why?
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The thing is, I also view sex as an extremely intimate thing... for me. If other people don't feel the same connection that I do between emotional intimacy and sex, and consider protected casual sex to simply be a form of physical recreation, why is that stupid? I could see thinking someone stupid if they had the same sex=intimacy feelings that I did and still had casual sex, because they'd be making themselves highly emotionally-vulnerable to people they didn't know. But if sex doesn't have those attributes in their mind? Then I don't see what's stupid about it.
Nor do I expect everyone to have exactly the same preferences and priorities that I do; someone isn't stupid or immature for having butter-pecan as their favorite ice cream flavor, even if it seems blatantly obvious to me that chocolate is far superior. But it seems like you think a person is stupid and immature if they don't relate to sex emotionally in the same way that you do. Why?