Posted on 09/29/2011 6:40:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Americans continue to pay a terrible, terrible toll for one of the longest (and most ill-conceived) wars in our nation’s history.
In this war, the casualty count keeps rising, day by day, year after year. Hundreds of millions have been engulfed by it, and whole generations have been forever changed by their experiences with it. It has compromised us in the eyes of the world, and – worse – compromised our own intrinsic understanding of who we are as individuals, and as a nation.
The war I have in mind is the so-called “Sexual Revolution.” And on every scale that ultimately matters, it is a complete and utter failure. Like the famous revolutions in France, Russia, and Cuba – all of which promised one thing yet delivered another – this revolt has turned out to be no more than a means for ushering in an even more murderous, corrupt, and invincible regime.
The would-be-overthrow of the once cherished mores of Western civilization has only brought us 50 years of licensed depravity, and with it social decline, spiritual disarray, and political and legal confusion.
What’s more, our Sexual Revolution has provoked a massive identity crisis.
Consider: for decades, Hollywood has been working with the Hugh Hefners and Helen Gurley Browns to persuade us that the highest purpose and pleasure of life is sexual experience – the more varied and insatiable, the better. Living together is better than being married; “hooking up” is preferable to living together; orgies are better than one-night stands.
Anything that stands in the way of unrestrained sexual stimulation and activity is dissatisfying… and therefore evil, old-fashioned, phony, hypocritical, tyrannical – unbearable. So we have unisex bathrooms and dormitories, “family hour” television programs devoted to jokes about human genitalia, newsstands stacked with magazines whose covers present women uncovered for general leering and ogling.
We can’t get enough of it. We want the oldest actors in movies telling the raunchiest jokes. We want our children taking sex-ed in kindergarten, if not before. We want our teens to know intercourse is fine at any age as long as they’re “responsible.” Life is about sex, and if you’re not having it, thinking about it, planning for it, or enjoying it vicariously, you’re not really alive.
That is the message of the culture. But the message of our courts is something else.
In our courtrooms, the culmination of a half-century of hedonism is that sex doesn’t matter at all. Indeed, it doesn’t exist. Gender is irrelevant, a social constraint extrapolated from an increasingly adjustable physical reality. If, say, a man wants to dress like woman, be treated like a woman, have access to the women’s bathroom, the appropriate legal response these days is not compassionate psychological treatment or spiritual care for his soul, but a mass transformation of all laws and restrictions that might inhibit his sad delusion. In bathrooms and barracks, locker rooms and work places, gender and sexual behavior don’t matter at all, to hear the lawyers tell it.
And now, in halls of justice coast to coast, judges and attorneys are working diligently to eradicate the gender components from marriage and parenthood. Marriage, they tell us, is about sex and insurance benefits, not providing children with both a mom and a dad. Parenthood is about soothing some people’s needs to have a little boy or girl of their own … not what’s morally and emotionally best for the child. (Children are being treated as commodities or accessories in this modern formulation of “family.”)
Add all that up, and the long, long Revolution comes to this: sex is the ultimate objective of everything … but it means nothing. The one thing our society tells us we are supposed to want most is the one thing our judges and politicians insist we should disregard as unimportant. Sexual fulfillment is everything; sexual identification is irrelevant.
The casualty list for all that confusion is staggering: dramatically increased rates of divorce, teen pregnancy, abortion, pornography, crime, disease, and mental illness. Education has deteriorated, entertainment has gone puerile, moral standards have evaporated, and personal and professional ethics have slid sharply. Not only have we lost millions of lives, but the quality of life itself is profoundly lessened for our nation in a world where we’ve given up striving toward moral betterment with the understanding that we are the unique creations of a loving God.
Ultimately, it’s not a Culture War we’re engaged in. It’s a civil war. And we’re fighting it in our own souls, against our own better judgment, at the loss of our freedom, our peace, and the eternal truth lost man so desperately denies.
This was the WORTHLESS BASTARD the started this “sexual Revolution”: http://www.amazon.com/Kinsey-Crimes-Consequences-Queen-Scheme/dp/0966662415/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=IWG4U97UUUC1D&colid=3QEHOQMYACE8C
Amen I say.
This country badly needs divorce reform so that people cannot commit to serial monogamy as a way of life
One husband to one wife needs to become the ideal.
The idea that “it’s all good” needs to stop. Drug use/abuse is not good. Smoking cigarettes is not good. Alcoholism is not good. Sex outside of marriage is not good. Friends with benefits is not good.
I agree with most of the article. This part is just nonsense.
Europe at least considers us old fogies and puritans when it comes to sex. They're farther down the Sexual Revolution road than we are.
The only part of the world that really despises us for this, AFAIK, is the Muslim world, with most of the Muslim men anxious to participate personally but concerned their women might join in.
I think we SHOULD be despised by the world for this, but I don't believe we are.
Upon my word, that is completely revolting and disgusting.
“Europe at least considers us old fogies and puritans when it comes to sex. They’re farther down the Sexual Revolution road than we are.
I’ve been hearing this sentiment for years, but actually, they aren’t, unless by farther down the road you mean they’ve learned it’s better kept exclusive and private after all.
Crime hasn't increased. Nor has disease overall.
And does anyone reading this thread even know anyone with Syphillis? Back in the "Good ol' Days" before the sexual revolution all sorts of famous people had Syphillis.
Good luck with that. Do it, and marriage rates are going to plummet.
Besides being political suicide for whatever party does it.
This may interest you.
fdr on steroids.
Not having been to Europe, I’m limited to what I’ve read and seen in the media.
My understanding is that nudity is widespread in commercial television, newspapers, etc. Is this inaccurate?
According to this tabulation, the US is pretty far down the list for cohabitation rates. This seems to me a pretty good indicator of the extent to which the Sexual Revolution has been accepted by society.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/27/41920080.pdf
Certainly most European countries have had their birthrates fall off a cliff, which I consider another pretty good indicator. Though much of the higher American birthrate is among depressed minorities.
I’m certainly willing to consider your opinion, but I’d like to hear why you think Europe (by which we usually mean Western Europe) hasn’t had their morality deteriorate even farther than ours.
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I’ve been to Europe repeatedly. Compared to them we are a bunch of prudes.
It’s not a revolution, it’s a marketing strategy.
This was not the only ‘sexual revolution’ in human history, and therefore we can study the previous outcomes and forecast the likely oucome of this one. At the core of any sexual revolution is the radical separation of sex from any procreative purpose and from the stable context of marriage.
We have seen this before in the Gonostic sects of ancient and Medieval times, in the Adamites of 14th Century Bohemia and the Libertine and Mattchinne movements in 18th Century France and in the Bolsevik Revolution in Ruussia.
However the first thing that happens to any group or culture that succumbs is a drastic decline in the birth rate. Sexual revolutions are thus intrinsically self-defeating and rapidly fade after about a generation, or are forceably reversed, as in the case of the Soviet Union.
In the early days of that Bolshevik regime, sex was ‘liberated’, divorce by demand, contraception and abortion on demand, homosexuality deciminalized. By 1929 the Soviet Union became the hardest place in the world to get a divorce. In 1932, homosexuality was recriminalized as ‘social menace’. In 1936, abortion was outlawed and access to contraception became more restricted. Why did the Soviet regime do this? Was it because their leaders had starting reading the Bible, or reading Papal Encyclical letters? No, they simply realized that (apart from the ravages of Marxist ‘economics’) Russian society faced total demographic collapse.
Just as obscure theses are now written about the Mattachine movement in France in the 18th Century, so we will see, at the end of the 21st Century books will be wriiten about the rise and fall of the gay movement.
Hello? Heard of AIDS?
Among homosexuals the rate of syphilis is very high, as well as a host of other diseases, parasites and other horrible medical conditions including what used to be called (and may still) “Gay Bowel Syndrome”.
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One of the best articles about the "sexual revolution" I've read in a long time. Please don't miss it.
Europe is not one amorphous mass. And there are still cultures that are not as depraved with immorality as the US that hold the free sex culture in abhorrance.
It’s disgusting! Straight people usually don’t get parasites unless they have been to a filthy,third-world country. Then,of course,there’s the issue of incontinence.These homos will litterally be s**tting themselves.Sick,sick,sick.
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