11 February 2009

more is better?

PETA commercial

I recall this was banned. But really what was interesting were the claims, not the models. (and based on what I've read, most of them were not actually vegetarians anyway).

I suspect the problem is sort of like higher social economic school districts and measuring gains by students. The type of person likely to become a vegetarian is very likely to have other health related concerns that might affect their sexual habits and appetites. Among which might be included seeking out education on different techniques. And certainly a desire for a healthy (and by extension sexually appealing) body. Consider instead the type of meat eater who is likely to have a concern for health. Such a person exercises, eats a balanced diet, etc, also. So is it the vegan diet or lifestyle that matters more to sexual quality and quantity? Compared to the average lazy American who does not exercise, does not consume a balanced or healthy diet (either vegetarian or omnivorous), it is almost a virtual certainty that the type of person who is a vegetarian, or consumes very little meat relative to the rest of the population at the very least possesses a higher degree of sexual desirability to the average population and by extension some level of higher sexual quality or quantity (because they would, presumably, have their choice of sexual partners). I'm not sure what sort of claim this makes valid, but it doesn't seem like it has much to do with dietary habits themselves. It looks more like it is the people involved who produce those habits and choices they make with deliberate or subsequently relevant consequences.

Second major problem: there's really no empirical way to demonstrate sexual quality on any sort of scaling system that I know of. The only real data we have that can be analyzed is the amount of sexual activity versus dietary habits (or exercise habits, or a combination of the two). While Americans have a quantity fixation on many things, I'm more of a quality thinker. But in any case, the data doesn't point to any meaningful quantity gaps. Since the average American is likely to think in these terms (that more sex is better sex), what's the difference?

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