Journal Trolling4Dollars's Journal: Which is the "worse" vice? Sex or drugs? 24
Before anyone jumps to any conclusions about this being a right vs. left thing, I'll say that it's not. I'm specifically asking about personal opinion. If you want to bring up BJs in the oval office vs. coke snorting political marionettes, that's your own look out. The other thing I'll say is that there seems to be a lot of difficulty discussing anything related to sex on
My personal feeling is that drugs are a worse vice than sex because of the damage they do to the most important part of your body: the brain. Sure, you COULD get an STD (possibly life threatening) from casual sex, but if your brain is in good working order, there are plenty of ways to prevent that. I've had a good number of sex partners and was smart enough to know how to avoid STDs, so I know it can be done. On the other hand, every person I know who has fallen victim to drug use has either had a tragic end to their lives, or is miserable now. I've had drug using friends go to jail for committing crimes that were the result of impaired judgement. I've had friends who are currently struggling to get out of poverty but are finding it difficult because they never made it through college due to their drug habits. Being in their mid 30s and having police records doesn't help either. The friends who indulged in very extreme sexual behavior have come out of it just fine. No STDs. No criminal record. And in every case, just a normal life (at worst) where they are now married and have some kids. However, here is the most telling fact in my opinion: the sex focused people can still indulge in their "vice" with no negative impact on their lives whereas the drug focused people seem to fall lower and lower the more they indulge. The only solution for the drug focused people is to completely stop using (a few of my friends fall into this category) otherwise they continue to decline.
What do you think?
Tough question (Score:2)
Re:Tough question (Score:2)
First, you must specify what you mean by "worse" -- which is why you put it in quotes. Suppose you were to use to common measure of infant mortality to decide. Sex increases the infant mortality rate, but not the infant mortality ratio, which all other things being equal it decreases. Some drugs increase the infant mortality rate, and some drugs decrease the rate, and do not always have the correspo
Re:Tough question (Score:2)
Huh? (Score:2)
Re:Huh? (Score:2)
Drugs (Score:2)
I object your honor (Score:1)
Re:I object your honor (Score:2)
OK. Since there is no such thing as black and white make the following assumptions
Recreational Drug use: Good? Bad?
Recreational Sex: Good? Bad?
Comparison between the two based on the above? My take: Sex is better than Drugs for recreation as it is not as potentially damaging to the most important part of the body: the brain
Re:I object your honor (Score:1)
Re:I object your honor (Score:2)
And for that matter, what do you mean by brain damage?
Salvinorin A is a chemical which produces exceptional experiences. But there are no recorded cases of brain damage or long-term affects (other than the positive effect of a cure for depression - is this damage?).
Cannabis has been accused of bringing on psychotic
Re:I object your honor (Score:2)
Do we have any volunteers?
Cheers,
Ethelred
Re:I object your honor (Score:2)
Dick Cheney in emoticon form --> BY
Re:I object your honor (Score:2)
And that is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages.
Though you forgot the pitchfork and tail.
Cheers,
Ethelred
Uh, I can answer that right now (Score:2)
When the experimentation gets really interesting is when you combine the two...
sex and drugs and rock'n roll (Score:2)
If practiced properly (Score:2)
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Sex OR drugs? (Score:1)
Seriously, I stick to my libertarian guns--as long as your vices stay out of my area (And, well, everyone elses), they're cool.
Keep it at home. =)
Re:Sex OR drugs? (Score:2)
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