"It's unnatural. It goes against God's plan. It wasn't designed to do that. It wasn't designed to be used that way."
You've heard the arguments before, right? Gay marriage, and the ever-attendant reaction to "sodomy", is always in the news these days. Particularly in an election year. And, predictably, there is the reactionary outcry against such "perversions" which usually cites exactly the above reasoning.
It occurred to me, suddenly, that reasoning sounds familiar (and not just because of the repitition). Particularly the last two. And I found myself thinking: who cares about what it was DESIGNED to do, we care about what it CAN do!
There it is. Welcome to the new cyber-morality.
If you haven't figured out where I'm going with this yet, this will probably go over your head, but let me put it simply: human bodies are systems, right? Who is it that specializes in figuring out ways to make systems work in ways other than they were designed? Who is it that finds ways to make systems do things their makers may not have intended? Who is it that cares less about what a system was made to do than about what it can do? Who is it that cares less about the rules imposed by the maker of the system, and more about freedoms afforded by the way they can make the systems actually work in their hands?
By now, I'm pretty sure a good set of my friends already have their hands raised going: "We do!" And they'd be right.
Food for thought, huh? Besides, there's a certain coolness factor in being able to say with perfect honesty that making love to your boyfriend is a really sweet hack.
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