I find organized religion icky

So we should also outlaw Brussel Sprouts and liver?

I vote to remove clowns please.

I seem to recall thinking anyone kissing was icky until I was about 12, regardless of who was kissing who. So yeah, this is a pretty stupid litmus test.

I find manifestations of stupidity icky. Can we please eliminate them?

What's going on with our poor kids? Kissing 101 and all its ICKY permutations of genders/sexual identities can wait.

Parents: Get your kids out of preschool if you can ASAP!

"children who have not been corrupted"

In other words, "children who have been indoctrinated with our particular brand of Christianity." (Of course, their particular brand of Christianity is the only TRUE form of Christianity.)

Wow. Just...wow.

Run with the "ick factor." Perhaps as grownups, these kids will agree that our planet has too damn many babies, aka ecological overshoot.

If not, another solution to human overpopulation will occur, take your pick
1) nuclear war (quickest)
2) plague
3) slow starvation due to climate change, farmland loss (slowest, ugliest)

Pretty sure both children and adults find the idea of their own parents fucking to be one of the grossest mental images. However I'm sure glad mine did.

This is a bullshit argument.

Hm, yes, the "4-year-old's Opinion" standard is pretty weak evidence for, well, anything.

im twelve and what is this?

Sex is icky, that's what makes it fun.

I don't recall my kindergarten teacher kissing anyone.

And sex with broccoli?

Thou shalt not go in unto thy broccoli. For it is an abomination in the sight of the Lord. (Vegetables 4:16)

Fine, then. Lose the broccoli. Whatever.

@4: "I seem to recall thinking anyone kissing was icky until I was about 12, regardless of who was kissing who. So yeah, this is a pretty stupid litmus test."

The Westboro lite creeps at WND seem the sort to describe their sex lives to children.

You know what boys aged 4 find icky? Girls.

Boys are therefore born gay.

Hey, this making shit up is fun! I see why they do it now!

Claiming a broccoli joke as one's own, rather than crediting the author of the piece one links to, is icky — but probably inadvertent.

Sex with broccoli is hawt.

My 3yo found the humping monkeys at the zoo to be hysterical, not icky.

And these religious people wish they could have lots and LOTS of such icky, gross, disgusting sex, but alas, they can't get laid! Poor, poor things.

@17 undead, yes, how did they do this survey?
Talking of surveys, our idiot Govt is doing one at the moment, for marriage equality. Just a survey and it won't be binding (I won't bore you with the political moves that got
us here), yet it's bringing the Christian homophobes out in the open and subjecting our LGBTIQ communities to ugly bullshit.

" “We now have 4-year-old kids in preschool where we have lesbian and transgender teachers,” Kupelian said. “They go in and they show two women kissing, two men kissing; there is a natural ick factor where children who have not been corrupted say, ‘Ick, that’s gross."" What kind of preschool are your kids going to where their teachers are making out with people in front of them?
And what's all this about 4-year-old kids being "corrupted?"

I move that we ban poo-poo and pee-pee. They are SOOOO gross! No one can every go the bathroom again. Can't hold it in? Well, you can use the toilet in the state pen anytime you like, you disgusting, sinful pervert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIAKFfZh…

@6: You spend a lot of time here for someone disgusted 24/7.

What does he mean, "they show" people kissing? If these kids are seeing adult staff members kiss at work then there's something weird about this preschool already that has nothing to do with gay sex. Perhaps the kids happened to witness a parking lot peck? Otherwise, there's a bigger reason to be concerned about this school.

As for "natural", I'm really over people thinking that natural = good and unnatural = bad. A lion ripping the guts out of a living gazelle is natural. Entire communities suffering from cholera is natural. Children dying of polio is natural. Shitting outside is natural. Modern sewage and plumbing is unnatural. Living inside houses with electricity and heating and a computer with all the world's recorded music and collective knowledge easily available is unnatural. Active immunity through childhood vaccination is unnatural. Double bacon cheeseburgers and ice cream are unnatural.

I suspect that people have been fucking in a variety of ways and with a variety of partners since the dawn of mankind so people of the same gender kissing is probably more natural than putting on pants. But the larger point is that it doesn't fucking matter if it's natural or not.

And as for 4 year olds, we are literally talking about people who have only recently stopped walking around with their own shit and piss taped to their bodies. If they didn't have adults forcing them to bathe, they'd happily exist with dirt, spilled food, snot, spit, and drool on their faces and hands forever. If they had their druthers, most of them would eat nothing but instant mac and cheese and chicken nuggets covered in ketchup. Any opinions these little new people have about "ickiness" should be dismissed straight away as childish nonsense. I mean seriously who are these adults that give a fuck what toddlers think of behavior between adults? I've seen a drooling three year old crawl under a picnic table to pick old dirt-covered french fries off the ground and then stick them in his snot-stained mouth. I've seen another throw himself into a mud puddle, kicking and screaming, because my husband would not let him run into traffic. My first thought was not, "Hmm I wonder what these bright stars of tomorrow's future think of kissing." Nope. It was "how the hell do any of us survive childhood?"

Sex is not icky. It's absurd.

@28: It's also human and our lives.

The issue here is dehumanization, not dick jokes and conflating the two here is not helping.

More often than not I too think kissing is icky and I avoid it when I'm doing the sex. Delighted to hear this means I'm not corrupted and I get to go to heaven.