According to a recent article on CNN,

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/15/inte ... index.html

Story Highlights

Survey: Nearly half of women would forgo sex rather than give up Internet access

More women than men would be willing to give up sex, the survey found

The survey, commissioned by Intel, queried 2,119 adults in the U.S. last month

Most adults also would forgo two weeks of TV over one week of Internet use

Men would go without sex for six months in exchange for a 50 inch HDTV

So who needs balls? Technology is finally helping humans to evolve and live without sex. One more reason why balls are no longer necessary. Just freeze lots of sperm when you are young (should you ever want to father children) and get rid of those dangling participles and go on line for a satisfying life. Sure would eliminate a lot of unplanned children. The last thing this world needs is unplanned and unwanted children.

Instead of a sperm/semen bank maybe they can start a testicle bank and just freeze your castrated testicles and when sperm is needed extract the pure unpolluted sperm from them. As long as artificial hormones are available to keep us healthy and sexually functioning why live with painful, cancer prone balls. ?

Well now, that should explain this overwhelming urge to get rid of our TV.

The only time my TV comes on is to watch a DVD now and then.

With all the interruptions, it takes me a week to watch a movie.

This really is not funny. What have we done to ourselves? Marriage counselors will tell you that couples that have active sex lives together usually have one thing in common. No television in the bedroom.

Computers are just as bad. I know several couples that have divorced over one partner or the other spending too much time on line or playing video games. There was also a post in this forum, a while back, about that news report of the couple that met in one of the virtual world games, met for real, married, and then divorced because one of them was cheating on the other in the virtual world game!

In a sci-fi story, some years ago, a future society without real sex was depicted. Instead of real human contact when people wanted sexual release and romantic involvement they put on their virtual reality helmets with contacts to the nervous system and dialed in to the romantic, or sexual fantasy that appealed to them at the moment. They could even change sex in their fantasy and have all the feelings as if they had experienced the real relationship. In the story, the majority of people became addicted to it and remained contentedly plugged in most of the time leaving the world to be run by computers.

Well? Just how far away from that are we right now? If that technology existed how many people do you think are ready to market it? Messy as they are, I would rather put my efforts into real, physical, analog relationships. I consider it appropriate use of technology.

coinflipper_21 (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:50 pm This really is not funny. What have we done to ourselves?

I don't think it is just a concern for and about adults. If you happen to spend some time in the third world where there is not much TV, you will notice that adults actually regularly take kids to parks so they can play with other kids.

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coinflipper_21 (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:50 pm that technology existed how many people do you think are ready to market it? Messy as they are, I would rather put my efforts into real, physical, analog relationships. I consider it appropriate use of technology.

I agree with most of what you say, but I DISagree with you on this one. I have had my fill of "real" relationships. If I could trade my "real" relationships for cyber-relationships, yes, I do believe I would. Also, I would like to point out that MANY married men that I know feel this way. "Reality" is highly over-rated in my opinion. For the present, there is no "virtual reality" or "Star Trek The Next Generation - Holodeck" simulator that could equal the physical pleasures available in the real world, but if such technology did exist, I would be one of those who would readily trade in my real life, with all the disappoinment, hurt and frustration, for a virtual life.

For Sale...Cheap!

One HDTV and one computer.

Please call Yoli at 555-6969.

No checks, please.

Arab Nights (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:33 pm I don't think it is just a concern for and about adults. If you happen to spend some time in the third world where there is not much TV, you will notice that adults actually regularly take kids to parks so they can play with other kids.

I agree. And, I have been in third world countries where it is actually safe to take your kids to the park, so the kids can play and their parents can socialize. It may be that their parks are not infested with gangs and drug dealers because there is little TV and the parents actually go to the parks and pay attention to their kids in other ways. I am probably from the last generation of urban Americans whose parents did not use the TV as a baby sitter. True, you cannot blame all of these things on TV, but I think that people concerned with the content of TV programming have missed the true problem, the pervasive distraction from real life caused by the mere presence of TV.

FianceeUvBigGuy (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:49 am For Sale...Cheap!

One HDTV and one computer.

Please call Yoli at 555-6969.

No checks, please.

I'll give you $20 for both. I don't get the sex anyways, so I might as well have the computer and TV...

ha ha. yous guys are funny. But as one person commented, it isn't funny.

I kind of think just as our bodies crave food and water, nourishment, our brains crave input, challenges that keep them active. Sex seems more of a body craving, not mental craving; a body over mind scenario.

Perhaps as an experiment, like dieting, or exercise, just set aside an hour or two each day, or perhaps one day a week, and "UNPLUG" from all technology and spend time with a person or persons who are important to you (like before you or they die).

See the earth and sky (and lake,river,ocean if nearby). Look at the colors, See the textures. Hear the sounds. Smell the air. It's in three dimension, not like a flat screen TV or computer. Enjoy nature. It's free.