First Church of Swingers: Carnal ’services’

Time was when houses of worship were easily distinguishable as were the clergy associated with them.

But in an age of Internet ordinations of “ministers,” what a flock of fancy calls a “church” others might consider a far different kind of religious experience.

Consider the ministry of John Ondrik. Ordained online (for $90), the organizer of the Spiritual Palace sought a special zoning exception for his “church” in residential North Huntingdon. Affiliated with the nonprofit Church of Spiritual Humanism, the Rev. Ondrik says he provides his 40-member congregation “a more private, more hands-on” worship service.

In rejecting Ondrik’s application — “as to be unbelievable” — zoning officials cited “overwhelming credible testimony” revealing not a church but a commercial business “offering sexual-lifestyle-type services for a fee.”

Officials say the Spiritual Palace shares the same address as a place called the Swingers Palace. “Parishioners” pay a minimum $50 fee to “worship.”

We are not prudes. And we’re not here to judge what consenting adults do behind closed doors; that’s their business. But it is fundamentally wrong for this operation to call itself a “church” in pursuit of special considerations afforded to bona fide churches.

Personal carnal pleasures are one thing. Abusing the law in their pursuit is quite another.

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Don’t ridicule this – many of us have had religious experiences at swing clubs.

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Humans are naturally polygamous

Came across a nice article in Psychology Today. It is by Alan S. Miller Ph.D., Satoshi Kanazawa Ph.D. They have a book coming out called Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters in late 2007.

We know that humans have been polygamous throughout most of history because men are taller than women.

Among primate and nonprimate species, the degree of polygyny highly correlates with the degree to which males of a species are larger than females. The more polygynous the species, the greater the size disparity between the sexes. Typically, human males are 10 percent taller and 20 percent heavier than females. This suggests that, throughout history, humans have been mildly polygynous.

Relative to monogamy, polygyny creates greater fitness variance (the distance between the “winners” and the “losers” in the reproductive game) among males than among females because it allows a few males to monopolize all the females in the group. The greater fitness variance among males creates greater pressure for men to compete with each other for mates. Only big and tall males can win mating opportunities. Among pair-bonding species like humans, in which males and females stay together to raise their children, females also prefer to mate with big and tall males because they can provide better physical protection against predators and other males.

Although I am a great fan of Evolutionary Biology, I am not sure if I always buy these arguments.

Also, I am not suggesting that alternative life style or swinging has anything to do with being polygamous. In fact it actually goes against the argument. In polygamous situations (in humans and in primates) there is a great deal of jealousy and and all the indicia of “possessiveness” present; in the swinging lifestyle that is not the case.

Swinging is more evolved, sophisticated and thoughtful response to hedonistic impulses. If it was as primal, one would see a lot more manifestation of it.

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