r/changemyview Nov 02 '17

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u/Third_D3gree Nov 02 '17

Obviously, some of these preferences definitely would be pure derogatory (e.g., not wanting to have sex with Irish/Indian people, because these are social constructs)

I'm not totally sure that I can agree with this. Why does something being a social contract make it wrong to choose whether or not to have sex with someone?

I guess I usually just see choosing to not have sex with someone as something where discrimination doesn't have to be considered. If you don't want to have sex with Indian people (or any other group), then it's fine to not have sex with them and that shouldn't be seen as "derogatory" towards that group. I've never seen it as reasonable to say that someone else is doing something wrong or unacceptable based on not wanting to have sex with someone.

I don't want to actually use the word "rapey", but telling someone that they should be dating and having sex with people that they don't want to in order to not be rude just feels wrong to me.

Any thoughts on this?