From Same-Sex Marriage to Polygamy & Prostitution: (An Anthology of Disillusionment on the 21 Century Moral Code) Personal Reflection Essay

By Professor Leb Morr

This is a personal reflection essay. An essay like a book may be on the same topic, but in breadth and details, it tries to embrace the subject without expounding on details as may be treated in a book; and being a personal reflection, the authors mind is the readers road map. The essays focal point is, if same-sex marriage has been given constitutional recognition in the United States, should this not logically lead to recognizing prostitution and the next complexity of pair bondingpolygamy? The essay examines the human rights and freedom of choice factors behind this and uses internationally recognized scenarios to illustrate the harmlessness of the latter two. To illustrate these points, practices of countries seen as the doctrinal peers of the United States are referenced and compared to the United States. Personal names are mentioned not as an attempt to denigrate any individual but rather as need for illustrative examples.

• Language: English
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• Release date: Mar 31, 2016
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Professor Leb Morr

The author is a scholar of international law who disposes a very rich multicultural background. He spent about twenty years in Europe, studying in Moscow and in Bonn. During his stay in Europe, he traveled extensively in East European countries as well as in Italy, France, Belgium, and Holland, with short visits to the UK and Austria. He has a rich understanding of Africa, which he has visited repeatedly for over thirty years. The author does not believe in polygamy or in prostitution and is not a homosexual. However, it is the author’s belief, as most jurists like to be identified, that he can argue for, champion, and defend any cause within the framework of a legitimate argument or concept or legal principle. And this essay is the embodiment of the author’s nag for argument and debate.

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Contents

Preface

Background

What did the 48 Nations; Initial Signatories to the UDHR (United Nations Declaration of Human Rights) have in mind?

Understanding Human Rights And Matrimonial Choices

Outlawing Prostitution in the USA while it Flourishes in Western Europe & Beyond

Pro & Con: The Dignity of Women or the Sexually Exploited:

Prostitution Beyond the US, Morality, Cultural Heritage, Human Rights or Medical Hazard!!!!

Universality of Human Rights versus Criminalization of Acts of Human Rights and Social Conflicting Questions.

Consequences of Restrictive Government Punitive Injunctions on Prostitution and Prostitution Related ‘Offenses’

CONCLUSION

Some References

Preface

This essay has been conceived as a subject of entertainment. Notwithstanding the research put into it, it is not intended to be an academic or scientific paper nor moral counseling to anyone. Its content has been stretched to embrace many analogies – historical, moralistic and ethical, at times overboard; but only with one golden intention – to illustrate the past and current breath of human sexuality as it defines different types of marriages around the world; forms of intimacy amongst citizens in different countries; divergent opinions of citizens, religious and cultural groups here and there; positive or adverse reactions of sovereign states to its current trends - often in conflict with the core essence of the doctrine of the universality of Human Rights and Freedom of Choice.

The essay also embraces the objective truth that continuous changes in choices or options of Human Sexuality have overwhelmed many conservative individuals, religious and ideological groups whose biases are still shaping the debate or discussion around this topic. These continuous changes are likened by the author to the endless global technological innovations and the unfolding of the concealed chapters of life in the changing times along the path of human destiny.

Beyond all probable changes that mankind is prepared to embrace; each of them has always been seen and accepted as an effort by us to enhance our cultural and moral stereotypes, exemplified in long standing models of the human life. Models that are more or less typified and replicated in lower species like monkeys, baboons, dogs, goats, horses; even reptiles, insects and birds.

Mating as observed in the world of these lower species has for the most part been an act between the opposite sexes. Amongst these lower species, cross-species mating, for example: between cats and dogs, or rabbits and cats, or between goats and sheep, or horses and cows, or lions and tigers has not been a common observation.

Sexual acts which have been the proof or the outcome and crown of opposite sex intimacy have for ages been the model amongst mammals, reptiles, birds and insects with specific courtship codes and social protocols.

The Act of Sodomy, that is now legally and respectfully called homosexuality, as ugly as those not engaged in it may see or think of it, seems in truth and authenticity to grant real pleasure to those engaged in it.

Human minds that are gifted with daring sexual appetite for The Adventurous, Ugly or Horrific, are extending their sexo-mania exploit into the cross-species arena with baffling species mortification and overt dehumanizing audacity.

To those of us who vehemently cannot stand this, we think someone has lost their mind; while those so engaged, after adapting their bodies and taming their consciences to enjoy these rather strange pleasures are unable to understand why their conduct hurts or surprises anyone, simply because of a mere fact - the different choice, or adventure they have made or are making in their sexual life!

Here, nothing is assumed. Though the other models like polygyny and polyandry or polygamy, are in general heterosexual in essence, they are abhorring and ugly to non practitioners similarly as homosexuality is to non homosexuals.

While it may at this juncture be an irony, the growing trend in bestiality - the cross-species sexual exploit, though egregiously objectionable in the eyes of the majority of humanity today, may still gradually creep into the confines of legal protection - "to secure to all persons in every State of the Union equal protection in their rights, life, liberty, and property."(1a) Yes, this is the embodiment of the disillusionment in the unfolding of the 21st Century’s Moral Code.

However, a good number of readers might find the argument at times tilting to condemnation or advocacy, as such may cast the author’s personal beliefs and personality into debate. To this the author reminds us that God Our Creator endowed us with