Well, I’m not a “fleshy sex fiend”.
Part of the reason there is so much obsession with sex is because of the constant advertising using sex to sell (much less Viagra type ads these days.). Not to mention the objectification of women that has been pervasive throughout centuries. It’s not the greatest reason but it’s a reason.
Humanity has supplanted everyone’s desire for Christ with many things including sex. This is where the true destiny for humanity lies. In Christ, the role of mother is fully realized in every woman (and father, every man).
The feminists were right about men objectifying women throughout time, except for many notable incidents throughout, as a general rule, women were viewed (and still, to a lesser extent) by men as baby factories or tools to “relieve frustration”. Or both.
This isn’t to say that every, or even most men mistreated their wives, just that any idea of women earning money for the family would have been met with derision. The point is experience has shown that it’s important for every family with children to have one parent at home, the other bringing money home.
One could argue that this is only the male role, but such an argument would rest solely on evolutionary statements or traditional roles, both of which are reductions of humanity. Reducing us to animals only (the evolutionary argument) or slaves to tradition minus reason. Just because it’s “always been done that way” is a reductionist argument divorced from reason.
But like all human centered ideas, we went from one extreme to another.
Unfortunately for the feminists (or maybe fortunately, as maybe this was their plan all along), they turned the view of a woman from being familial/sexual slaves into being slaves of money. One objectification for another.
It’s only in realizing we all, in our true unbridled humanity, have an infinite desire for everything, that we can fully come to realize Christ is the only, and real, answer to everything that ails us. He doesn’t take away all our problems or solve them with a wave of His hand. He accompanies is on our journey, which is what we really want anyway.
When a person realizes this about themselves, when one realizes we are made for the infinite and therefore Christ is the only answer for our infinite desire, the burdens of life become lighter, and all of our obsessions, including sex, melt away like a candle under the light of His Love we run to with open arms, as a child who wishes to rest in his father’s love.
Yet women still wear make-up, spend inordinate amounts of money on shoes, clothes, and hair, as well as unabashedly qualify prospective suitors by their own appearance....
You are right and thank you for the thorough response. I must have meant fleshly, and didn’t have enough coffee, sorry.
Yes, the yearning for God has been supplanted with these easy fixes—money, sex.
Women as tools for scratching the itch, that is about right.
Man’s role as protector of the family has been abdicated.
Christ is the answer, but in today’s world those are fighting words.