{"id":5918,"date":"2009-01-17T03:27:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T08:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5918"},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T08:55:42","slug":"every-sperm-is-sacred-and-sentient-and-possibly-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/17\/every-sperm-is-sacred-and-sentient-and-possibly-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Sperm is Sacred, and Sentient, and Possibly Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two readers, Muriel M. M. and Lauren D., sent in this advertisement for the Oslo Gay Festival.<\/p>\n

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Three thoughts:<\/p>\n

First, notice how the narrative reproduces the idea of the goal-oriented sentient sperm.\u00a0 (We’ve got a fun post on that idea here<\/a>, and here’s<\/a> another good one.)\u00a0 Remember, sperm do not have goals; they do not have ideas; they do not think.\u00a0 It’s just chemistry.<\/p>\n

Second, I think it’s interesting how this video associates anal sex with gay men.\u00a0 How do gay men have sex?\u00a0\u00a0 Well, they must copy straight people as closely as possible.\u00a0 Therefore, they must put the penis in an opening “down there.”\u00a0 Ah ha!\u00a0 I bet they all have anal sex all the time!\u00a0 I’m sure some gay men do have anal sex, but some surely don’t, and lots of straight couples do!\u00a0 I bet a lot of lesbian couples find a way to do it, too.\u00a0 I’m just sayin’.<\/p>\n

Third, for what it’s worth: It also occurred to me that, in that this commercial celebrates the infertile sex act, we’ve come a long way from the Christian ethic against wasting your seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two readers, Muriel M. M. and Lauren D., sent in this advertisement for the Oslo Gay Festival. Three thoughts: First, notice how the narrative reproduces the idea of the goal-oriented sentient sperm.\u00a0 (We’ve got a fun post on that idea here, and here’s another good one.)\u00a0 Remember, sperm do not have goals; they do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1791,42,290,120,54],"class_list":["post-5918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nation-norway","tag-religion","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-sex","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30477,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions\/30477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}