Chemical Reactions

There's some funny here but it will take me a bit to get there so bear with me.

I was on digg's blog reading about the recent HD-DVD thing going on. I went to their homepage for the first time in a while and the top story was Why Christians have sex before marriage. Being someone who cares too much about these things, I clicked the link and read the entry. The blog post is nothing to write home about, pretty standard forbidden fruit theory by someone who took intro psych. I was pretty good at intro psych myself (ask about my hippocampus!) but I try to keep that to myself.

Anywho, I started reading the comments. Pretty standard stuff from Christians and non-Christians alike agreeing with him. A few were from abstinence pledgers who chimed in with an "I agree! But not me!" which sounds like a standard teenage response (learned that in intro psych!). Then this post and response caught my eye:

The fear of guilt and the fear of God isn't exactly a great way to motivate kids to not partake in sex before marriage. I don't even think that's how God himself would go about it. The whole reason is a sane and rationale one: It's a tool to bond two people together. A chemical reaction happens in a female three times in her life - When she gets married, when she has a baby, and when she nurses. This chemical reaction causes a bonding sensation beyond her control. I'm 22 and not married and still a Virgin and I'll be damned if that chemical reaction happens outside a committed relationship. Devastation would ensue. I already saw what getting too close emotionally can do outside a committed relationship... I can't imagine adding a physical closeness that only intensifies the emotional element. God isn't about making rules to make life suck... I think he set up rules to protect us from harm.

The reply:

What is this chemical reaction you speak of that happens to "a female three times in her life"? As a gynecologist, I'd love to hear about mysterious chemical reaction that I've never seen before in any literature, because I'm certain it would profoundly affect my work. Would you be so kind as to back this up with some form of medical reference?

Actually got me laughing out loud a bit. Let's make sure you got all the parts that were funny:

• This "chemical reaction" is a myth.
• By her own criteria, having sex outside of marriage would not induce this magic effect. It's married, baby, and nursing.
• Virgin should not be capitalized.
• If God created everything, he created everything. He may have made the rules to protect you from harm but he made the harm too.

Author's Note: This post makes me seem like a huge ass. Sorry about that...