+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 21 of 21

Thread: Sex Education

  1. #1

    Default Sex Education

    So a right bastard who calls himself my friend introduced me to hotforwords.

    Hotforwords is the channel used by Marina Orlova. Marina is a philologist. But what is a philologist? Fortunately, her specialty helps explain that, but to sum up it basically means she studies word. What is important is that she dresses up in cute outfits and tells people about the origins of words.

    So basically, using the idea that sex sell, and a little humor she has become one of the most viewed youtubers. And people might actually learn something. The slogan "Intelligence is sexy" may not be the common belief, but it should be.

    Have you ever wondered why inflammable means flammable? I did and she told me. OK, a mad Cuban told me first, but that doesn't really prove my point, so let us ignore this inconvenient fact. She may not be able to pronounce all the words, but I love watching her talk.

    Some time before I heard of this site I (and likely thousands of others) had a similar idea. In my case it was in response to reading the old Burger opinion on obscenity.

    "The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. "

    I thought to my self, I should really make pornography that, during various sex acts, needs to teach the viewers about the first amendment, obscenity laws, and famous freedom of speech court cases. I never got around to this project. I did eat pizza and drink a lot of beer so clearly, I did all I could for the project. But even this poor abandoned project is just a symptom of the point I am staggering towards.

    Sesame Street and School House Rock both taught quiet a bit using music and a little humor to educate. Numerous other entertainment venues were also used. My big question is, why not more? In the War on Stupid, why are we not using every weapon in our arsenal? Sex, drugs, rock and roll. Why aren't their sex laden rap videos that teach us multiplication tables or hard core pornography that discusses the history of Panama? Why doesn't junk food teach us the metric system?

    Sadly the answer is simple. We (the great big giant we that makes up society, not the little we of you and me) don't value education. We pay lip service to it, but not much else. We ignore the powerful effect a little wickedness could have on education in favor of pseudo morality and ignore the idea that every dollar well spent on education could save us billions on law enforcement.

    OK, maybe not billions. But I would probably know better if my sociology teacher gave me a lap dance to a heavy metal song about socioeconomic theory.

    Sincerely,
    the undereducated and over opinionated Emo Ball

  2. #2
    helcyon's Avatar i am no one
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    dimension zero
    Posts
    663

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by Cafe_Post_Mortem
    Have you ever wondered why inflammable means flammable?
    Yes. I used this word on here the other day and was thinking exactly that but couldn't be bothered finding out. You have bothered so what's with it ??

    I had a look at hotforwords but was too lazy to do anything but look at the pictures and then only the ones I could see of Marina without clicking on anything.

    I'm also am too buggered to discuss anything you wrote in this topic yet but I might if you answer my question by the time I look here again . You have 24 hours. Cya tomorra

  3. #3
    Morning Glory's Avatar Apathetic Voter
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Campbell's (or is it Warhol's?) Primordial Soup
    Posts
    5,643

    Default Re: Sex Education

    how much pussy do you think steven hawking gets? absolute zero.

    intelligence is not sexy, in fact it is a turn off to the majority of the stupid populace that are intimidated by it and they just want a dumb, pretty and thoughtless face.

  4. #4

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by Morning Glory
    how much pussy do you think steven hawking gets? absolute zero.

    intelligence is not sexy, in fact it is a turn off to the majority of the stupid populace that are intimidated by it and they just want a dumb, pretty and thoughtless face.
    On to something, but I think it's more that each level (or kind, as it's probably less of a linear hierarchy) of intelligence and intellect tends to attract itself. Which kinda works with what you said; most people are pretty dumb, so most people are most comfortable around other dumb people. But it definitely works the other way around as well, with the more thoughtfully inclined getting turned off by stupidity. And that's hardly surprising, but people just often forget to include their own demographic in the pie chart.

    The thing with intelligence (and more generally, meaning) is that communicating it all but requires it to already exist in both parties. Everyone appreciates the merits of intelligence in the same way, but it cannot impress upon anyone beyond their own ability to recognise it. Even the greatest idiots may admire someone for something like a reputation for intelligence, though, and this does happen now and then.

  5. #5

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by Morning Glory
    how much pussy do you think steven hawking gets? absolute zero.

    intelligence is not sexy, in fact it is a turn off to the majority of the stupid populace that are intimidated by it and they just want a dumb, pretty and thoughtless face.
    I don't think that's correct. Most stupid people I have meet think they are smart and are annoyed by people that they precieve are less intelligent than they are. They might be intimidated by people who are much more intelligent than they are but most people will still be turned off by people they feel are stupid. There are some cases where guys who are really insecure with themselves will only date stupid bimbos that they can boss around but I don't think that is common for most men.

  6. #6

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by allah
    Thats what their friends are for...
    Perhaps. Or perhaps it just happens that intelligence doesn't often coincide with other things they find attractive in a person. Self-titled intellectuals often have a way of belittling every other virtue by comparison - something for which does exist unique rational cause, but which will still conflict socio-psychologically with anyone that's proud to identity with something else, not even necessarily exclusively. Being smart is awesome - most obstacles in life can be overcome just by being the right kind and degree of smart - but even the insights of 'smart people' are generally mostly limited to a defined range of expertise and make at best for a good start towards an interesting personality, or person.

  7. #7

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by allah
    You seem to be explaining intelligence too narrowly.
    The 'intelligent people' category, you mean? Otherwise I don't see what you're getting at.

    Quote Originally Posted by allah
    What people want to be and what people want to have are not the same things but they are driven by the same motor. There probably is an actual model of beauty which could be explained mathematically and to be aware of it and understand it (to an extent) would take intelligence but the resulting perspective would only be marginally deeper than that of someone that never really considered the topic at all. The only real difference between 'smart' guys and 'dumb' guys (again I’m speaking mostly about men here because that’s what I know) is that although they both want the same thing, only the intelligent guy can rationalize why (probably subtractively). Basically what I’m saying is that both 'smart' guys and 'dumb' guys usually just prefer "hot" girls. Thats where the common expression "all men are only after one thing" comes from.
    I dunno, you seem to be working with a rather crude archetype of men, and I don't think it applies to real people that strictly. Maybe it's what they think about themselves when they're single and talking it over to one another at a bar, but everyone that's been in a real long term relationship has been through situations where they wished there was better communication, a larger shared ethical frame of reference from which to start solving differences, more common interests to keep time spent together involving and unforced; a general mutual understanding. I mean, I'm sure there's exceptions, a few barbaric types that are so absorbed in the boundaries of the most oversimplified and sexist relationship model pop culture has to offer that they've truly never lived anything other than cartoony I-want-sex-and-sandwiches moments, but they'd certainly not be the majority; not even the majority of men.

  8. #8
    Mr Karl's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    4,725

    Default Re: Sex Education

    what's there to learn about the metric system?

  9. #9
    Mr Karl's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    4,725

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by Morning Glory
    how much pussy do you think steven hawking gets? absolute zero.

    intelligence is not sexy, in fact it is a turn off to the majority of the stupid populace that are intimidated by it and they just want a dumb, pretty and thoughtless face.

    steven hawking's a bad example

    people who want pussy get pussy.............intelligent people can figure out how to get more

  10. #10
    Morning Glory's Avatar Apathetic Voter
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Campbell's (or is it Warhol's?) Primordial Soup
    Posts
    5,643

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Why is Steven Hawking a bad example? He is a guy that is not physically attractive in the typical sense, but hella smart, demonstrating that intelligence is not a factor in attraction, or at most it is a secondary one.

  11. #11
    nathanmbailey's Avatar Batteries not included
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Over there.
    Posts
    908

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Uh, I also don't think he's trying simply because.... well his pecker doesn't work so well. And even if it still did somehow, I don't think he'd notice.

  12. #12

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by Morning Glory
    Why is Steven Hawking a bad example? He is a guy that is not physically attractive in the typical sense, but hella smart, demonstrating that intelligence is not a factor in attraction, or at most it is a secondary one.

  13. #13
    Morning Glory's Avatar Apathetic Voter
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Campbell's (or is it Warhol's?) Primordial Soup
    Posts
    5,643

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Ok, fine. then how about Einstein? He's not a bad looking guy, he even had a wife and kids, so people did find him attractive maybe moreso than they could for hawking.

    But the point is that he is not considered a sex symbol, which he rightfully should be if indeed intelligence is a sign of sex appeal.

  14. #14

    Default Re: Sex Education

    I'm pretty sure I've heard interesting things about Einstein's sex life, but the guy was famous for his grasp of physics. You can't say that <sexual fame> must = <all other kinds of fame> or it reflects badly on someone's attractiveness, there's too many other factors involved, like the internal culture of his audience.

  15. #15
    nathanmbailey's Avatar Batteries not included
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Over there.
    Posts
    908

    Default Re: Sex Education

    You know, Cassanova was a total sex symbol, and he was ugly. He just used his intelligence to get the ladies to drop their panties.

  16. #16

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by nathanmbailey
    You know, Cassanova was a total sex symbol, and he was ugly. He just used his intelligence to get the ladies to drop their panties.
    http://instantrimshot.com/

  17. #17

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by allah
    No. You seemed to be saying that some things, for example human attraction, work exclusively of intelligence, and i don't believe that. My point then was that its disheartening that radically different levels in intelligence don't equate to radically better choices in partners.
    Wouldn't that be definiting it too broadly then, if anything?

    I don't think I intended to say that either way, though; I was commenting more on the context of the archetypical impopular intellectual wondering about how people don't value their intelligence 'as they should', about how they get pushed into the 'friends' category by people they were intimately interested in.

  18. #18

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Quote Originally Posted by allah
    Don't you get it!?! intelligence is only sexy if you're already sexy!
    Well, intelligence itself isn't really anything. It's a tool, that allows you to become more effective at things you take your time to learn about.

    You can use intelligence to learn things that may render you more capable of attracting people, such as applicable bits of psychology, charming ways to phrase what you want to say, a developed opinion on cultural interests you may share with your target audience. If you can avoid the pretentious stereotypes, sophistication still holds a lot of appeal. But if you use it to get good at something like physics, don't expect it to help attracting anyone not sharing that interest - no more than being good at tennis would help you attract someone apathatic to the sport.

    Trying to measure a 'general' intelligence isn't nearly as useful as it is popular. It's only what you display somehow that can make an impact on people, and possible displays of intelligence go well beyond the occasional insightful remark that may or may not be understood and appreciated in its limited social context.

  19. #19

    Default Re: Sex Education

    I think I missed that idea being purposed, but otherwise; yeah, that too.

  20. #20

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Me? My name is actually a derivate of the Quake character 'Razor' that I liked playing, when I needed a less videogamey nickname for The Lion King roleplay.

    In my defense, I was 13 then, and ironic self reflection was quite beyond me. Fortunately in my years of using it online I've stumbled across a dozen of worthwhile associations for the name/word in different cultures and languages - and you added another, just now - so as long as I'm not asked directly I can pull off a reasonable pretense of sophistication.

  21. #21

    Default Re: Sex Education

    Agreed, Duke3D was my definite favorite, along with Shadow Warrior which I'm fairly sure was the same game with different graphics and weapons. I've played endless LAN games of those two in the school's computer room, back when having a computer room was such a new thing that teachers didn't have a clue what went on there and digital content control was entirely unheard of, rather than merely ineffective.

    That's even further back in time though, around ages 10/11. Mostly our class's collective nicknames were a bunch of variations on 'KILLER' and 'FUCKER', and one generally didn't even bother switching to the one of their preference when they took over a computer.

+ Reply to Thread

Similar Threads

  1. Do you think a university education is important?
    By Amelia G in forum Blue Blood Boards
    Replies: 16
    Last Post: 06-28-2004, 09:37 AM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
Blue Blood
Trappings | Personalities | Galleries | Entertainment | Art | Books | Music | Popcorn | Sex | Happenings | Oddities | Trade/Business | Manifesto | Media | Community
Blue Blood | Contact Us | Advertise | Submissions | About Blue Blood | Links | $Webmasters$
Interested in being a Blue Blood model, writer, illustrator, or photographer? Get in touch