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Letter to Salon.com

by Jason Roth
 
To: Salon.com Editor
Subject: Your "Ethics of Faking an Orgasm" Article
Date: 8/23/00

Dear editor,

Faking an orgasm IS unethical, but not primarily because of what it does or doesn't do to the person being faked. It's unethical because of what it does to the *faker*. It turns the most selfish, pleasurable experience in existence into a second-handed, self-sacrificial experience. Like all forms of dishonesty, it's wrong because it's an act of evading reality. Imagine the psychological consequences of turning sex into a giant fraud!

Faking an orgasm is something Mother Teresa might have done to some poor, helpless, mudpit-dwelling slob, had she ever been selfish enough to even attempt a good f**k once in her life. (And she of all people needed it.)

Leave it to altruism, the morality of self-sacrifice, to lead people to believe it's good to fake pleasure for the sake of others! The thought of it makes me sick. If you're not having SEX for the selfish pleasure of it, what the hell are you doing ALIVE? There's got to be some half-dead kid who needs a new heart. If you want to be truly sacrificial, donate yours - now!

Jason Roth
Writer/Editor-in-Chief
http://savethehumans.com

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