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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 ...
>>Actually, it is intrinsically evil. Its sole purpose is to prevent the proper operation of the human body (the reproductive system). It's simply a poison.<<
I include "pulling out" and the "rhythm method" as birth control. I was not referring to any specific method.
Masectomies are particularly effective. ;)
That's one way of looking at the truth. It's an erroneous way, but it's a way.
There is freedom in truth; there is slavery in sin.
It seems that many people have to learn this the hard way.
Birth control is neutral? Nope. Not if you're a Christian with any sort of respect for ancient Christian teaching it isn't.
I think Dawn's currently being 37 has more to do with her melancholy than her sordid past.
Did you read the article?
>>She thinks that burrowing into the most sexually repressive Western religion known is the way to wash this off of her conscience.<<
Your opinion.
My opinion is that I'd rather see a person turn to religion and open up their lives to Jesus Christ than spend their money on self-indulgent therapy sessions.
Would you not call her a slut?
Maybe not anymore but she sure was at one time.
She is the same age as I am. Sorry, I can't relate to her. Girls like her were looked down on when I was a teenager. I don't know where she grew up but it couldn't have been a very nice place.
>>Birth control is neutral? Nope. Not if you're a Christian with any sort of respect for ancient Christian teaching it isn't.<<
I disagree. And Christian teaching is not "ancient". It, like God himself, simply "is".
Adam and Eve,,wouldn't you say?..
I include "pulling out" and the "rhythm method" as birth control. I was not referring to any specific method.
I have had a vasectomy. Am I going to hell?
Thursday.
Chesterton wrote a book about a man named Thursday ... and that is what turned this woman around.
Just because I call Catholicism the most sexually suppressed Western religious tradition? What other religion teaches that you're going to hell for masturbation? OK, Mormonism does, too.
You obviously grew up in a catholic home, and have a decidedly different view. It was not your religion it was the religion of your parents. you should find your own.
I did. I'm an athiest. You are quite observant though, perhaps you've met other people who were brought up Catholic? Maybe my reaction to it is not too rare.
If this woman finds solace in the catholic church, why do you feel this desire to denigrate her for it.
She's not just someone I met at a dinner party who is espousing joining a religion as a way of dealing with your inner demons. She's pontificating about her way of life in a mass media article (that I didn't post, by the way) and I get to comment on it.
Now, if she had dealt with her inability to get over her past behavior by becoming an Islamist, would you be just as comfortable with it? To me, it would be the same thing--doing something that is designed to keep a lid on yourself by having an invisible friend 'watching' over you. It's far easier than simply coming to terms with what you did, and resolving to make better choices with your life the next time.
>>As Laura Schlesinger says living together is not marriage - it's being an unpaid whore.<<
While I like Dr. Laura, for the most part, this is untrue and crude and misogynistic.
Don't throw stones, unless of course YOU are without sin.
She sounds like a smart woman who bought into the MSM lies and her mother's confusion. And, then good sense prevailed.
It is quickly becoming a woman's world in academics and in business. I think that will accelerate what you have described.
Also, I find a lot of young women willing to bankroll a boyfriend who destroys the woman's credit rating by getting credit cards in her name to buy gifts for the other girlfriend. And then the same young woman makes moon eyes at every man who might be a candidate. I find it sad.
A woman on conservative radio, KFYI, Phoenix, an announcer no less, said she paid $100,000 to get rid of one boyfriend.
Traditional values have always worked and will always work. My wife was a stay-at-home mother. Our daugher-in-law is the same. We have been married 37 years. Our son is already one of ancients, still married after 12 years. Much happiness comes from conservative, Christian values. We heard our grandson was a "chaos lamb" in the Christmas pageant. That was his sister's description of his thespian efforts, age 1+.
>>I have had a vasectomy. Am I going to hell?<<
If that is the criteria, you and I can be a tennis doubles team there.
Assuming the ball is made of asbestos.
Why do people who are clearly mentally ill gather such large readerships?
You wrote: "I may have missed it, but where in this article did it say she found Christ?"
That's not really what the article was about, but since Catholics worship Christ as their God and she became one, it goes without saying that she must have found him then.
The woman clearly wears her Christianity on her sleeve (and I mean that as no criticism): http://www.dawneden.com/blogger.html
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