Time for Macrobiotic Sex?

Clearly Nebulous ^ | Feb 27, 2009 | Colette Moran

[CMoran325]

George Will had an op-ed about an essay over at Policy Review -- the topic at hand: how we are becoming a society that shuns gluttony and has all kind of eating taboos, while at the same time developing an attitude that anything goes in the sexual arena.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503123.html

It seems ridiculous that we are cutting trans-fat and red meat from our school cafeteria menus, while distributing condoms and pregnancy tests down the hall in the nurse's office. While restaurants are compelled to list nutrition information on all their menu items, abortion clinics can perform potentially deadly procedures without informed consent.

Why the dichotomy? Why are we becoming more austere at our dining tables -- eschewing animal products, pesticides, and growth hormones -- while becoming downright bacchinalian in our bedrooms -- ingesting birth control pills, Viagra, and aphrodisiacs? Cookbooks and diet books are best-sellers, while the most-viewed websites (amongst men anyway) are pornographic.

The articles above explore how the tables have turned. While our grandparents cooked with reckless abandon -- using lard, heavy cream, and fat-laden meats -- today it's all about non-hydrogenated monosaturated oils, soy milk, and tofu. Conversely, our grandfolks waited until they were married to have sex, stayed with that same person their whole lives, and had as many children as happened to come their way. Today, of course, people have many sexual partners, live together, have "starter marriages," and abort and/or limit the number of children they have.

The articles examine

[CMoran325]

The Policy Review essay really delves deeply, George Will gives his usual erudite perspective, and I throw in my two cents...

[SweetCaroline]

Not to worry, the schools are producing more new homosexuals everyday with their sex education classes, the man woman, husband wife will be extinct, no one will get pregnant so abortion will be obsolete

[Centurion2000]

bump

[libh8er]

It’s a matter of time before Obama introduces the Sex tax. The deficit would disappear in a week.

[Marie2]

I wonder about the claim that our grandparents waited until they married.

I do believe that was the cultural expectation, however, I have read statistics that indicate it wasn’t really happening.

I do believe having that expectation is far more protective of women and children, though, and I wish our culture would return to that standard.

[GOP Poet]

My parents were eating more AND reproducing more. I guess us Catholics were never really that restrictive when it comes to sex at home. My dad was always flirting with my mom. I really do not see couple that have been married flirt with each other publicly these days. Teenagers these days seem to be having more sex that all the rest of us combined. Sick world.