Posted on 01/15/2007 8:04:12 AM PST by shrinkermd
The Sixties generation thought everything should be free. But only a few decades later the hippies were selling water at rock festivals for $5 a bottle. But for me the price of “free love” was even higher.
I sacrificed what should have been the best years of my life for the black lie of free love. All the sex I ever had — and I had more than my fair share — far from bringing me the lasting relationship I sought, only made marriage a more distant prospect...
And I am not alone. Count me among the dissatisfied daughters of the sexual revolution, a new counterculture of women who are realising that casual sex is a con and are choosing to remain chaste instead.
I am 37, and like millions of other girls, was born into a world which encouraged young women to explore their sexuality. It was almost presented to us as a feminist act. In the 1960s the future Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown famously asked: Can a woman have sex like a man? Yes, she answered because “like a man, [a woman] is a sexual creature”. Her insight launched a million “100 new sex tricks” features in women’s magazines. And then that sex-loving feminist icon Germaine Greer enthused that “groupies are important because they demystify sex; they accept it as physical, and they aren’t possessive about their conquests”.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I didn't read "ewwwww, gross!!!!" into the kissing comment. It seemed more a discussion of kissing can lead to sex, and therefore the author is careful and judicious.
And, of course, I can ignore you. But, my question to you, is why would you come on a FORUM, make provocative statements, and then demur, with "People can choose to debate with me, or ignore me." It is not a good idea to let some comments pass without, at the very least, seeking clarification.
I'm here to participate in an exchange of views and opinions. Why are you here if not for something similar?
There are people who are going to pick up this book, and decide that going neoprude is the way to take charge of their life. It stunts them from being able to use the power of reason to simply find a happy medium, rather than choose between the two extremes.
A virtually unknown woman writing about her life for a book to be sold where almost noone will see it who isn't looking for its kind is HARDLY comparable to homos flagrantly foisting themselves (in obnoxious ways, no less) in public view over many many blocks where even mere visitors may run into them.
That's why the author is approaching self-centered, egotistical loon status.
Seriously, think about it: She gets to have all the fun she wants, before the internet exists (or at least while it's still in its infancy), for like 15-20 years, but then she has to write an article making sure to hurt other young folks chances at having and enjoying that same kind of whatever-goes crazya$$ sex -- the kind she sure didn't deny her own self of.
Sure, thanks a lot, DAWN!
"Artificial means of birth control are to the human reproductive system what binging-and-purging is to the human digestive system."
Smiley or not, that was an offensive statement.
Thank you for your consideration.
I have had bad experiences with a number of religions, and they all come down to the same thing. It's imposible to believe in a being that is powerful enough to create and maintain a universe, yet somehow, that being needs me to refrain from eating, drinking, and loving what I wish, in the ways that I choose to that do no harm to myself or anyone else.
"Women who grew up in that era were sold a bill of goods."
Thing is, Dawn wasn't even born until 1970. She didn't come of age until the eighties. Methinks she protests too much.
Give me a break!
IT AIN'T HURTING ANYONE.
I suppose me choosing not to ever drink alcohol either, has "stunted" my thinking processes.
cut n paste and haste do not make a good post.
Are you talking to me, or to the person who wrote your quote (Aquinasfan, I believe)?
I most assuredly agree. I've known many such couples who had a satisfying marriage, and their love of each other in every way, showed within their lives.
I'd like to submit for your consideration, the idea that people who are not guided by religion are not all messed up, disease ridden libertines. Many of us can make moral choices about sexuality that are life-affirming and positive, even though the society of fifty years ago would have frowned on them.
No problem!
Radical feminism has done a lot of damage. More proof.
It's often as simple and brutal as that.
You reminded me of a girl who used to hang around my friend's frat. She was nicknamed, "The Bank," as in, sperm bank. You've come a long way, baby. Thank you Helen Gurley Brown.
By what means do you find peace with regard to the wrong that you have done throughout your own life? Just asking.
It's really up to women to hold men to higher standards, and when they do (enough) men will rise to those new standards.
That could be their key to unlocking the entire web of lies. Great work!
"Noah had sex with his daughter..."
Incest: A fun game for the whole family.................
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