The author summarized J.D. Unwin's work called "Sex and Culture" which was published in 1934. Unwin was a social anthropologist at Oxford University.
In a nutshell he found when a society abandoned sexual morality it disintegrated within three generations. He studied numerous societies to come to this conclusion.
His original work is here: https://archive.org/details/b20442580/page/n7/mode/2up
Maybe this could help explain to everyone why our society seems to be in a state of irreversible decay. We are more than three generations after the sexual revolution of the 1960's.
“characterized by people who have little interest in much else other than their own wants and needs.”
Millennials.
“characterized by people who have little interest in much else other than their own wants and needs.”
Millennials.
One of the most peculiar terms coined by this perverse generation is “safe sex.” Everyone seems to be in pursuit of it, while giving vague definitions of it.
It used to be that sex was reserved for exclusive enjoyment between and man and his wife. “Safety” never was a question.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
No, according to the article, we are close to two generating into it. (66 years) Unwin calculated a generation as 33 years.
Sex is on the decline. People are more focused on their “mental health”.
1. Willful self-determination
2. Wicked self-deception
3. Woeful self-destruction
One of the first things we get self-determined about and wickedly self-deceived by is our sexuality and desire for sexual pleasure.
Satan knows this far better than we do and is very helpful helping us destroy ourselves with sex.
That’s what he gets off on: our self-destruction.
“some moral laws may be designed to minimize human suffering and maximize human flourishing long term.”
ALL moral laws are “designed” for that.
And actually they are not so much designed as learned. Learned through the school of hard knocks, ie, centuries of experience.
“Moral laws” are really “nothing more” than rules for living which when followed will likely result in more long term happiness, than when not.
They make a big part of what we call values and they are the essence of any culture. They are the do’s and don’ts that are ingrained in all of us from childhood on.
They also make up a big part of any religion.
It is important because God is still very serious about sin and punishing sin. We must pay the consequences for our sins whether we like it or not. We might think we are getting away with something just because God doesn’t always act immediately, but the fact is, we don’t really get away with it at all, there comes a reckoning at some point. That job promotion you might have gotten had you not done certain sins without repenting lost, lost opportunities, illness, lost job, whatever the case may be, our actions have consequences somewhere down the line.
Of course this doesn’t mean that the righteous never suffer, or the unrighteous always suffer in this life, but the fact remains, we pay the consequences for our decisions to sin somehow, at some point, either in the life or in eternity.
God’s views on sexual immorality hasn’t changed just because society no longer takes God’s word seriously, and because there attitudes towards sexual sin has devolved. His views on sexual immorality hasn’t changed just because people no longer fear him as they once did. Sin is still sin, and we still must suffer th3 consequences of sin even though we can’t lose salvation for sinning. God never exempts his children fro having to suffer co sequences for their actions
Worth the long read!!!
One more note, even when a society devolves into ‘lawlessness’ and ‘sexual deviancy’, where ‘anything goes,, and nothing is forbidden, there still exists a universal moral code. This has been proven by those who came out of such societies and proclaiming something g like ‘even though there were no laws, and everyone did whatever they wanted, I never was comfortable and always sensed that it was wrong, and knew there and to be a better way. Convert after convert has said essentially this same thing. The holy spirit moved In their hearts and compe,led them to seek God, even in a goes social situaiton, and God rewarded their willingness to seeks answers to their uneasiness which was caused by God’s universal moral code written In their hearts and minds. They never hardened their hearts against that code like so many others had, and God rewarded them for seeking to break free fro the bondsge of sin that their godless society imprisoned them in. Folks think sexual immorality is freedom- it isn’t, it is bondage to sin
1934 was a long time ago! You mean to say that history suggests pretty strongly that immorality is a bad idea? Wow! Who would have thought it?
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710 pages is a lot of Social Anthropology!
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I also suspect we really don’t understand the effects of modern pornography on society. The technology that instantly allows video of anything to be seen anywhere and at any time is very new, since around 2005 or so.
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PFL
Bookmark. Thanks for posting!
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