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To: Ronaldus Magnus; Persevero; dp0622; RummyChick

I have too seen some of those. Some are clever sophistry. Others are just plain obscene.

I was once in youth ministry. One of the great frustrations I had was in knowing what certain predatory males were doing, but how none of the adults (except me) wanted to admit it, much less deal with it. Yes, I saw young women ruined by males, and then blamed for it.

I once had a young woman come to me for advice - she had no one else. She was vivacious and attractive, and the males who dated her tried to molest her, essentially accusing her of being a tease. I kept it civil and formal, but I told her it was not her fault, and to avoid them.

Years later, she married one of the worst womanizers in that church during my time (which greatly saddened me). I got a letter from her at her husband’s demand, denouncing me for my candid counseling with her when she was younger, proclaiming it as “indecent.” (For the record, my association with that young woman was strictly platonic, and in part because I was a close friend of one of her older brothers.)

So I, the chaste male, was indecent for speaking respectfully about God’s Creation, but the inveterate womanizer was not indecent for actually abusing it.

I found that the males who were least able to discuss human sexuality in a respectful manner, as a creation of God - who Himself proclaimed it as good - were often the ones who most abused it.

In other words: Sex is real dirty, but we really like it. We can do it - and do it - but cannot talk about it.


58 posted on 08/24/2019 6:53:53 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy

Good post. And sounds about right.


59 posted on 08/24/2019 6:56:47 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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