I remember that thing with Dan Quail and the Murphy Brown show. They took Quail's speech and actually worked it into the show. With a little editing, not all that much really, they made it look like Quail was talking about Murphy Brown as a real person. Brilliant!
Different religions deal with sex differently. The Hindus and the Buddhists are all for it until, if you live long enough, you get to become an ascetic and give up everything that is fun. The Muslims are kind of like our parent's generation was, they think it's fine for the guys to do it, but not the girls. Then they wonder why there's so many gays around, and they certainly don't approve of that either. The Israelites, at the time Moses was writing all those laws, thought that sex was great as long as it was between married couples who would have lots of babies that would grow up to become soldiers just in time for the invasion of Canaan. Anything that bypassed the baby making process, like sodomy, homosexuality, bestiality, and coitus interruptus was, of course, forbidden. Oh, and you were only supposed to marry a virgin Jewish girl, not one of those Canaanite whores because, in the days before DNA testing, that was the only way to make sure that your kids would be 100% Jewish. Christianity, with all its talk about love, and its belief that the end of the world was imminent, should have developed a kinder, gentler code of sexual conduct but, for some reason, it never did. The Catholics don't even let their priests get married, and then they wonder why so many of them end up fooling around with the alter boys.
I heard recently that the Red Chinese are thinking about abolishing their "one child" policy, mostly because they are running out of cheap labor. Of course, there's no telling if they will actually do it because, as everybody knows, those Orientals are inscrutable.
The more I think about it, the idea of delaying and regulating puberty that I got from that science fiction book makes more and more sense. Forget about the birth control implant in the females, if we take care of puberty, the birth control will take care of itself. I went through puberty at the age of 10, but I never got laid until I was 18. That means I wasted eight years of my life trying to figure out what to do with all that energy. Actually, I did manage to handle it, but all that time and energy would have been better spent hunting and fishing or learning how to make money. Plenty of time for sex later, when you have a better chance of finding a willing partner. I don't know about you but, in my experience, it was virtually impossible for 10 year old boy to get laid in those days.
We wouldn't need a lot of regulations either. If we restrict it to high school graduates who are at least 18 years old, that should solve the problem of children having children. One thing is that it shouldn't come automatically at any age, you should have to apply for it like a driver's license. The application process wouldn't even need to be that difficult, just difficult enough so that anybody who is too lazy to put on a rubber would also be too lazy to go through the trouble of getting his puberty permit. Then there should be a badge or something so that you could easily tell who was in the game and who was not. That way, those who were not interested wouldn't be bothered by those who were.
At the time I read the book, something like this was a futuristic pipe dream, but I think today's technology puts it in the realm of the possible. They already know what every human gene does, and that there are some genes that only serve the purpose of switching other genes on and off. All they need to do is switch the puberty gene off at birth and switch it back on when the time is right. I think it's an idea whose time has come.
This reminds me of a story. Stop me if you've heard this one:
When God made man, He gave him 20 years of normal sex life. The man wanted more, but that's all he got. Then God made the monkey and also gave him 20 years of normal sex life. The monkey, however, only wanted 10 years, so he gave 10 of his years to man. Then God made the lion and gave him the same deal. The lion, like the monkey, gave 10 of his years to man. Finally God made the donkey, and the same thing happened. So it came to pass that man has 20 years of normal sex life, 10 years of monkeying around, 10 years of lion about it, and 10 years of making a jack ass out of himself.
As for me, I don't remember lion about it for 10 years, but I'm sure I made up for it with jack ass years.
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