Undress my intellect

I've been thinking recently, or remembering, rather, that I used to have all kinds of youthful, empassioned, studious things to say about sex and sexuality. Sure, today I will be occasionally flustered by someone's attitude or lack of awareness of themselves in these areas, but they feel much more personalized to individuals than any sort of rampant social disease of the mind that threatened to potentially poison the way we relate to each other in all regards.

Obviously, this is partially because I am no longer a college student.  Not literally, though yes also that. But I'm not bursting wide eyed into the world and shocked to my knees over things that other people do in it that I may or may not agree with. In fact, I've managed to hone an ability to stand back and admit that we're all special snowflakes, and I dont have to approve of everything that people do unless I can draw a firm intellectual line that answers the question "why not". And when I can do that, based on information I've gathered in my own little world, that's when really fun debates can take place.

Regardless. I think another part of the reason for my lack of empassioned shock at the world's attitude (or perhaps just my generation's, in my country) towards sex is because as I've grown older, I've begun folding myself into the social circles that I find most fulfilling, most inspiring, most interesting to ME. Which means, needless to say, that I dont often come across or talk in depth to people who just dont 'get' sex, either in themselves or others. I'm not confronted by it often, and when I am, it's when I'm advising someone over a personal hiccup.

But thirdly, I'm afraid that it might partially be because as well as not often being confronted by things that confound me in this area in real life, I am also just not discussing such things as much as I would if I were on a campus, taking classes in these subjects, or otherwise regularly discussing or debating these things. I dont even know if I remember some of the things that used to be so important to me to stand up for. I'm rusty.

I honestly think I'm hoping that somehow, as the 'Sex' part of this blog expands, I will hit on something that someone feels a desire to ask about, to express confusion on, or outright disagree with me about. And then we can all duel with those straight and narrow intellectual swords we have constructed that we each believe point to a big chunk of ethics or psychological health.

Any takers?