Rick’s Ramblings: Shameless sex please

Shame ting ting… shame ting ting… Remember that episode of Game Of Thrones last season, where Cersei Lannister did the naked walk of shame and the giant kept ringing the bell behind her saying “shame” to remind her of her guilt and sin. Yes, that’s mostly, how we are made to feel about having sex, strange right, but you and I both know sadly, sex has a bit of guilt and shame and scandal value attached to it even today. Click a picture of me eating a burger and it’s cool, click a pic of me even kissing someone, forget anything majorly sexual and boom — it’s a scandal. But I keep wondering why does sex or anything related to it, have so much charge to it! Why is sex made out to be such a hectic shameful act, so over-hyped, so overrated? Why should we feel ashamed of having sex, why can’t we speak freely about sex? There are so many “whys” in this topic that my column will be just a list of questions, but seriously, why is sex still such a taboo in our society? We seemed to have progressed quite a bit in most other aspects, …read more