Posted on 04/27/2008 2:15:06 PM PDT by wagglebee
The problem is that the left believes that life should be totally free of consequences.
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This is a really good article; I saw it on the “Townhall” email a couple of days ago. It just makes you want to beat your head on the desk!
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I’m glad this was posted because I wanted to get something off my chest. My husband and I were watching CBS TV I believe on Monday. It started with a show called, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER..The whole show was about having casual sex. This show is not on Prime Time, I believe it is 8pm. The jokes were not casual, they were GRAPHIC. Next show - TWO AND A HALF MEN. The whole premise of this show is about a man who has nothing but casual sex...although they try to make him seem unhappy sometimes, he is glorified..by the men and the women...All the women are portrayed as either self-centered control freaks or bimbos..there are no real in betweens. The sex is constant, talked about in a graphic nature. EVERY joke is about sex. Period.
Next up - RULES OF ENGAGEMENT about a married couple...a couple who are engaged but living together and their single friend who is an out and out hound dog. AGAIN, sex, sex, sex - trying to have a baby - and sex.
I looked at my husband and I just said, think about what we just watched for an hour and a half...pure, unadulturated meaningless sex WITH NO CONSEQUENCES. It was sobering...really. I am no prude, (as well you know) but what has become of us? Where are the censors? The joks are so graphic. I wonder how kids deal with all of this...well..I think we know...drugs and violence and sex.
Our country - particularly Hollywood, should be ashamed of themselves.
This was on regular CBS broadcast TV?
“On another front, replacing marriage with casual sex is especially harmful to young women’s long-term well-being. The marriage rate in the United States has dropped by nearly 50 percent since 1970. In 1940, less than eight percent of all households consisted of people living alone; now more than a quarter do. The number of unmarried couples living together temporarily in the U.S. is 10 times as large today as in 1970.”
Am calling BS on this segement of the article. The explosion of divorce is not a direct result of casual sex. A more plausible candidate would be the post WWII exodus of women from the home into the working world and higher education.
Benefit of marriage...
What the hell is that, a guarantee of a divorce?
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Too much junk science in this article. Confusing correlation with causation (maybe the depressed girls turn to sex to gain affection, instead of the sex causing the depression). And slight myth making (referring to the number of “college-age” AIDS patients, when few college students have AIDS, and it’s the unprotected gay sex recipients, and the needle abusers who have it.
Why didn’t you change the channel or turn off the TV?
What happens is that a life free from consequences is a life without meaning and a life without meaning is meaningless. I never waited till marriage but I did marry the only one I’ve ever had sex with. I had been taught from an early age that relationships were to find someone for marriage not to find someone to sleep with. It wasn’t about recreation it was about finding a mother for my future children and a good wife. People would be a lot happier if they thought about relationships that way and chose a mate based upon criteria other than how much they excite them.
What the hell is that, a guarantee of a divorce?Most of us married folk are never getting a divorce. A minority get them often and that makes the stats look bad.
The benefits:
Doing God's Will, nurturing the next generation - the future, having a friend for life, preservation of capital (divorce is devilishy expensive), preservation of culture, and never being alone.
Agreed. A second reading only exposes more flaws and fallacies. Remind me to ignore this unreliable source in the future.
Survival of the fittest.
Natural selection.
Whatever.
I think part of it is that commercial TV is becoming obsolete and the networks will do ANYTHING to save it. The other part is that I don’t think there is any possible way to claim that Hollywood IS NOT pushing agendas.
Poking a stick into a hornet’s nest:
Sex is a financial transaction. The man gets the promise of offspring. The woman gets a protector and provider.
If the man pays up (gets married), but doesn’t want a child, he bought an empty box. So few of these men will marry.
If the woman gives it away (sex), she is cheating herself out of a large (one half of a man’s lifetime assets and earnings, probably a million dollars) payday.
In our modern world, government has assumed the role of protector. And thanks to education and gender equality hiring laws, women have a chance to earn very good wages. A husband is not needed to provide.
If the woman and man both agree they don’t want kids then sex has little value. It’s just recreation.
I don’t deny there is a bonding aspect to sex. I just believe that the dirty socks on the floor (for her) or putting up with the PMS (for him) overwhelms this and without the financial dependence or need for protection, there is much less to hold the couple together.
I know, I know, companionship. Let’s discuss the popularity of dogs...
I think it was the 60's free love generation followed by the feminist movement of the 70's that reduced marriage to an oddity.
TV, like all mediums, is becoming increasingly fragmented. There are more television shows on today than ever before, each of them catering to their own little piece of the market.
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