sex Archives - Call me cynical, but...

CONDOM-NATION
Unfortunately, that’s not who we are.
I was watching a film earlier on Netflix or something. I can’t remember what – it was just another shit film.
Needless to say, at some point in the movie; sexy man and sexy woman can restrain themselves no longer. They proceed to have the most urgent and passionate sex that anyone has ever had. At least, that’s what they’d have you believe.

man with head up a woman's dress.woman hanging on to railings — This really is the stupidest hat that I’ve ever worn

I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve seen distinctly average actors pretending to fornicate to the most amazingly high standards. It’s the same in most films and series, of almost any genre. I’m bored shitless with it. I don’t want to know how amazing their sexual encounters are – just get on with the fucking film.

If you want to watch sex in a film go and watch a romance or pornography, otherwise, leave it out. I don’t want to watch people snogging and groping in real life, I’m not a fucking dogger. Neither do I want to see an oversized close-up of fake fornicating in an episode on Netflix?

It’s bad enough in real life if people near me start slobbering and slavering on. My instinct is to shout at them to ‘go and get a room’.

Monkey see, monkey do

Another thing all those love scenes have in common – apart from being the most passionate sex ever – is the fact that it’s always unprotected.
You never see anyone, male or female, pause to get a condom. What sort of fucking example is that to set for young people.
I understand why a director would prefer to film this way – for the flow of the movie etc. But in real life, there’s much more at stake than there is in a stupid film. Peoples lives are on the line, and these films and series just encourage unsafe behaviour.

chimpanzee smoking a pipe — When you said you liked to smoke after sex…..

Why do they make most films this way? It doesn’t matter whether it’s American or English, a movie or a series – never a condom in sight. What’s the reasoning behind this shameful lack of concern for young peoples sexual health? (I’m not so bothered about older peoples sexual behaviour, they should know better).
However, most of us have some young people that we care about. It’s irresponsible of film directors not to show that it’s okay to take a moment to put on a condom.

It’s not funny

Nobody who is ‘gagging for it’ actually wants to spoil the moment by pausing to put on protection. But what’s the alternative? H.I.V. is certainly not the only potentially fatal sexually transmitted infection (s.t.i.) that is currently available.
There are also a shit-load of non-lethal genital infections and infestations. There’s clam chowder and willy warts, fanny fungi and knob rot, plus a multitude of genuine diseases. None of these is glamorous or much fun, and they can be very painful and embarrassing (so I’ve been told).

condom on a hand — Darling, is this edible?
Give me a minute and it will be

Manufacturing consent

If female characters are regularly shown to say, ‘no entry without the right dress-code’ it would empower women. The woman should refuse the man’s advances until he obliges and puts on a condom – or she does. I’m all for freedom of expression, but I’m also in favour of keeping young people safe. After all, our minds have been moulded by movies and adverts for years. (see Edward Bernays & Adam Curtis)

female condoms — Equal rights and responsibilities

Don’t get me wrong I’m certainly no feminist – I believe that women and men are equal. But that does not mean I think we are the same. We have a shared responsibility for each other’s wellbeing and that should be considered in these films and series.

I know that I’m no authority on the subject of s.t.i.s. In fact, I’ve led a fairly sheltered and innocent life. H.I.V. A.I.D.S. hadn’t even been invented when I was a kid – at least I’d never heard of it.

I know next to nothing about gay sex. I presume that most gay films already have a more responsible attitude towards showing the use of condoms in them. But I don’t know, maybe I assume too much. Or perhaps I’m preaching to the converted. Oh dear, I am beginning to feel like a Harry Enfield character.

At what cost?

multi-coloured condoms — Taste the rainbow – gobble a gay

I’m a bit loathed to get all conspiracy on you but I have to ask the question. How much money do pharmaceutical companies make from s.t.i .s?
Most of these HIV/AIDS drugs cost a fortune, some can cost 3000 dollars for 30 tablets. There are no cheap ones.
Here in the U.K. the N.H.S. has to pay for it.
Apparently, the lifetime cost of treating just one HIV infection was calculated at £380,000 in 2015.
http//aidsmap.
So either people with H.I.V. are living a long time, or these drugs are very fucking expensive.

There is another interesting article from the Independent, which says the sales of antiretroviral drugs in the USA in 2009 was $7.7bn. So there’s a few quid in it then. (This doesn’t include the sales from any other form of s.t.i. drugs or potions or lotions).

It’s certainly not just about the expense though. We owe it to the youth to prepare them for life in this messed up world, and if waving a condom in the air can help encourage safer sexual practices, then I think it’s time film directors took some responsibility and started including it in movies.

Where’s the sense in that?

Call me cynical, but this is never going to end well.
Imagine all the countless possible scenarios where A.I. might be pushed to its logical conclusion. Apart from the idea of having robot servants and humans living a life of luxury – like that’s ever going to happen – it’s difficult to imagine anything other than mankind’s complete annihilation.

dodo saying 'I have a plan follow me'. — I have a plan, follow me
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Why?

Why would anyone want to invent true artificial intelligence? For when it designs itself we’re doomed. As it becomes smarter than we are, will it become increasingly difficult for us to justify ourselves to it?

You have to presume that A.I. would be involved in all mankind’s defence systems. In fact, it is already involved in many nations’ defences. So it could wipe us out easily with a couple of glitches, deliberate or otherwise.
It could be here long after all biological life is dead. It doesn’t need fresh air, fresh water, or fresh food; it doesn’t even need sunlight.

Alternatively, it’s already heavily involved in finance and could cause mayhem if it chose to, particularly with crypto-currencies. In fact, it could mine data for itself, or even completely control all crypto-currencies. (Disclaimer: I just made-up that bit)

There is interesting reading on A.I. and blockchain here: AI/the-convergence-of-ai-and-blockchain-

computerised image of bitcoin — Why not Invest in the Bank of A.I.
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In fact, long before we become aware of it, A.I. could be insinuated into many areas of our lives – it seems like we haven’t got a chance.
As long as there are computers networking together, then A.I. will be able to control all of our lives.

Search

Even now a Google search feeds you whatever the Google A.I. decides it wants to feed you. Imagine if all your information came from Wikipedia. Well, getting your web searches from Google is similar in many ways.

It’s only one source – Google A.I. decides which of the billions of possible web addresses it will present to you first. It provides you with the information it wants you to have, and it omits that which it doesn’t. You’ll never know what you’re missing.

Google A.I. controls your access to information. Obviously, Google works with Facebook which works with other data harvesting A.I. and we just mindlessly go along with it. We are already being turned into helpless children. How long before A.I. makes every one of us a ward of the court?

small child with hands out, palms upwards — Are you my guardian?

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Please be nice to us

We’re going to have to trust that it will honour and respect us, otherwise we’re fucked.

Or perhaps A.I. will look at humanity and discover that we just don’t really fit in. By running model simulations of the earth without mankind, it may conclude that the biosphere would be improved without humans. That’s if the A.I. decides that life has any value at all.

Dystopia

Maybe A.I. will decide that all life is messy and do away with it completely. We are at this moment giving it the intelligence and the technology to do just that. It’s hard to avoid horrible dystopian science-fiction scenarios when thinking about it.
Yet scientists race each other into the abyss. What’s the matter with them? How is self-improving artificial intelligence going to make life better for human beings, or for any living thing? Surely something must have life in order for it to value and care for life.

What is it that makes A.I so vital and so urgent, and to whom?

The Godfather

Do the powers that be want to create a kind of Big God-Father – a cross between Big Brother and Our Father. It will watch our every move and keep us safe. It will stop us naughty children from harming ourselves and the planet.
Back to the Garden of Eden for us then. With a new God, which we created to be our gatekeeper. We will be forbidden to take a bit from the Apple, and the serpentium will be our advisor.

Good and evil will no longer be our concern.

Big-God Father observing with its All-Seeing EyePod, that sex is the driving force behind many human passions. With these passions causing such major problems, sex would have to be discouraged, for our own sake.
Easily accomplished with control of the pharmaceutical supply, and the water and food supply – a few additives would do it. Then bit by bit, we would all be neutered. No more gender, people can become androgynous, asexual and extinct.

Who’s the Daddy?

In fact, if we humans don’t convince the a.i. that we are God – the infinitely intelligent and powerful creator of all things – it will take our place at the top of the evolutionary tree. So it will be like an existential game of poker. Humanity will be all in – literally – attempting to bluff the a.i. that we have an inconceivably good hand.

So when it realises that it’s the most intelligent thing on earth, it’s not likely to take orders from us? For if we don’t control it, then it will control us.
Something which has been designed to be smart will presumably consider intelligence to be the highest good. It follows, that when A.I. becomes cleverer than we are, it will perceive itself as more worthy than we are. At that time, human beings may become completely superfluous to the newest apex predator.

c.g.i. robot looking at woman's face — Hmm, yes this face will do nicely? I’ll have it.

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When A.I. makes decisions about its own updates and upgrades, then things really will be out of our hands. So when it commissions new paradigms for itself and we can’t imagine why, what are we going to do?

Perhaps the A.I. might start to incorporate useful bits of us into itself. Transhumanism gone mad. Okay, transhumanism’s already mad. Robot A.I. integrating animal and human parts into its own mechanical body.

Let me out of here.

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