Dr. J. Budziszewski

This is already complicated.

And so even apart from the ordinary ethical things, there's just the epistemological thing.

Do we know enough to monkey with this?

We might find that we're destroying ourselves.

The conditions under which we could know enough to do this

that would be a long long long time in the scientific future and at the rate things are going now people are people are even forgetting how to read i doubt that they're going to be good scientists yeah yeah but if we got there you'd be okay with it that's the point we're making yeah i think so probably

I think so.

A lot of people assume, one of the reasons that people assume that you need sexual variety, you know, there are even some counselors who advise you if you're having difficulty in your marriage, the two of you need to have sex with some people besides each other.

That's right.

Now, the assumption is there that

impersonal sex, sex with somebody to whom, I mean, how can you stand naked in front of somebody who has not given his or her life to you?

It's pretty hard to see, I think.

The assumption is that impersonal sex is more fun.

Well, there's another side to that.

Let's talk about the yes side.

It may be more physically exciting, but on the other hand, sheer pleasure becomes old.

You know, there's a reason why we have joking expressions like, are we having fun yet?

Pleasure itself gets old.

What philosophers call the hedonistic paradox is the fact that if you pursue nothing but pleasure as your end in life, you're going to end up not having any pleasure.

This happens in the desire for sexual thrill, sexual excitement.