Fraternization
To many people's opinion of gestures of affection are morally correct and should be displayed anywhere one wants. Today's society has made any form of publicly displaying affection out to be the unpardonable sin. But why? Why should we have to hide the fact that we like someone from our piers? If you choose to, that is one thing, but being force to hide the fact that you like someone is, I think, an injustice to our right to the pursuit of happiness.
I don't think that on the final of creation, when God made Eve for Adam, God said, "Now Adam don't touch." I just can't picture a God of love, which is love, saying that. I think that God may have even encouraged it a little, if He needed to.
Publicly displaying affection is good for the person receiving the affection because they then know that there is someone in this world of six billion people that cares for them personally. Today's teachers have been told not to even touch a student because the school might get sued for sexual harassment. And, because of that we, the students enrolled in the school, can't show our affection to each other. I mean just think about it, if a student is going to harass someone they are going to do it, but if they are just showing affection their is no reason for alarm. I mean if you think about it, we wouldn't touch each other if we didn't want to. So, all public displays of affection at school would be consentual, therefore it's not sexual harassment.
Not only is it good for the person receiving the PDA, but the person giving it is showing the emotions and stresses of the day in the way of affection. It takes your mind off of the troubles of the day by giving u a moment when your heart no longer beats irregularly, but because of that simple, calm, morally correct act of showing affection for someone else you are now filled with an inner peace. Not a peace where you can't do anything, but a peace were...
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