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How the Sexual Revolution ruined friendship
LifeSiteNews ^ | 11-19-13 | Jonathon Van Maren

Posted on 11/19/2013 6:41:46 PM PST by ReformationFan

Our 21st century cultural landscape is littered with the casualties of the Sexual Revolution, even though if you’ve been listening exclusively to its propaganda arms, the media and academia, you’re probably thinking the whole experiment has gone swimmingly. The No-Man’s land of the resulting Gender Wars is littered with dozens of new sexually transmitted diseases, brains saturated with increasingly twisted pornography, broken marriages, and shattered futures—but as long as slimy sleaze-mongers like Dan Savage get to write columns on how to incur fleeting physical pleasure, we’re all "free." Praise Third Wave Feminism and pass the condoms, I’ve got herpes to catch.

One of the casualties of the Sexual Revolution, however, is a significant one: Friendship.

It is an irony of Modernia that the secular elites believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assume that mankind has the ability to the change the climate or end poverty, but is incapable of keeping his or her pants on. We can do anything, if we put our minds to it—except, of course, stop ourselves from devolving into an irrational pool of primal passion the moment we are presented with the opportunity for sexual (mis)adventure. That’s because “abstinence,” the Sages of the Sexual Revolution inform us from a wealth of inexperience, is “unrealistic.” Thus, every friendship is now suspect—cross-gender friendships especially, mind you, but certainly not exclusively. This is not merely my own observation, either. Many of my friends, from every walk of life and varying worldviews, have made the same complaint. Friends, you say, people say knowingly if you’ve begun spending what they consider to be a significant amount of time with someone, Interesting.

Pop culture confirms and accentuates this new assumption, as well—nearly every sitcom on television has the characters eventually falling into bed with each other, as if it was simply

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TOPICS: History; Religion; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cslewis; dansavage; feminism; friends; friendship; homosexualagenda; jonathonvanmaren; sexualrevolution; vanmaren; womensliberation

1 posted on 11/19/2013 6:41:46 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan
Popular culture ruined my friendship


2 posted on 11/19/2013 6:49:56 PM PST by sagar
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To: ReformationFan

Best way to ruin a good relationship is to get married. Living prove here (3)times ain’t a charm .


3 posted on 11/19/2013 6:53:15 PM PST by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: ReformationFan
nearly every sitcom on television has the characters eventually falling into bed with each other

Eventually??? Hell, they screw instead of shaking hands.

4 posted on 11/19/2013 6:55:07 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: ReformationFan
Witch sexual Revelation?....My Hippy days when i came back from VN??..I loved it!...

I tried them all on!!!........It got old... but I'm still stuck with the one I married 30 yrs ago...Talk about a good match..I'm a lucky bastard..

5 posted on 11/19/2013 7:05:46 PM PST by M-cubed
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Nope. Didn’t bother me. I should be the poster boy for abstinence. Didn’t have sex with any of those super models or movie stars.

Of course it helped that I never met any of them ;-)


6 posted on 11/19/2013 7:35:56 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: ReformationFan

Amazing how many lives have been ruined over what amounts to a muscle spasm....


7 posted on 11/19/2013 7:40:18 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: sagar

Sounds like a pretty good trade.


8 posted on 11/19/2013 7:59:41 PM PST by BCrago66
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

It’s part of the design to causes people to do things that end up in reproduction.


9 posted on 11/19/2013 9:09:43 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett

*that


10 posted on 11/19/2013 9:10:09 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: ReformationFan

the way most american women are today, i don’t want to be friends with them, much less have anything to do with them. most guys, ditto.


11 posted on 11/19/2013 10:47:00 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ReformationFan

I just pet my dog and clean my guns, then throw them back in the lake.


12 posted on 11/20/2013 6:51:57 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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