Friday 18 March 2011

Playboy's Wager

Catholic Pact Of Lousy Sex states as follows:

1. No sex before marriage.
2. No masturbation.
3. No cheating.
4. No divorce.
5. No birth control.

In practice it means that you can have only one sex partner in your whole life. Unless, of course, your wife/husband will die young, then you can have two[1]. So you have one sparring-partner, but you can't spar often. Unless, of course, you want to have like 20 children and live with them in poverty[2]. Either way, with these rules, you can't be good at sex.

You all know Pascal's Wager[3]. I propose Playboy's Wager instead. Have as much fun as you can. If you do it wisely, you won't lose anything, including parking space in Heaven in case God exists[4]. But if you will comply to the Catholic Pact Of Lousy Sex, then you'll have lousy sex and nothing else.

Any objections? Didn't think so. Now I want a programming language named after me too.

[1] You can have even more, if you'd choose only terminally ill or old partners. But quality will be inversely proportional to quantity in this case.
[2] Another hole in this system is a case of a natural infertility.
[3] If not, read that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
[4] Condoms for STDs and unwanted pregnancy, vodka for moral hangover[5], confession for Karma cleanup, and perhaps even religious conversion when you're too old and your stuff won't work anyway.
[5] If any.

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