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[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

The time honored tradition of justifying the terrible shit you've done by putting it in your religious text.

Can't think of any religion that hasn't done this.

[-] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I'm no expert in Daoism in general, but the daodejing doesn't have anything like this in it

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

There is however freaky Daoist sex magic

[-] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe I need to get more into Daoism??!

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_sexual_practices?useskin=vector

It was brought up in a class on love in Chinese and Western literature that I was taking last year. The hypothesis we came up with was that gay sex would have been best to prevent the loss of vital life force, but IDK what the Daoist experts think on that.

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