Posted on 09/09/2014 8:00:31 AM PDT by wagglebee
For too long we have been lied to about the sexual revolution. But now the mask is coming off, and the younger generations are recognizing that they have been sold a pack of lies.
It’s sobering and frustrating to consider that each and every time social conservatives raised the cultural alarm throughout the last five decades, pointing out that each new manifestation of the Sexual Revolution would lead to devastating consequences, they were written off with derisive laughter. They were accused of “provoking a moral panic,” or being “stuck in the past” or “too prudish.” The “slippery-slope” arguments of aging moralists were simply dogmatic hysterics to be ignored, if not mocked.
Unfortunately, the briefest of cultural overviews reveals that those who sounded the alarm were not crackpots, but prophets.
More than 25 new categories of sexually transmitted diseases (now referred to as “sexually transmitted infections” in order to make them sound less permanent)? Check.
Regular, government-funded nude and sexually explicit frolics in the streets of our biggest cities? Check (and if you don’t go, you’re a bigot).
Soaring rates of pornography addiction that has now ensnared the majority of our population and is creating an insidious new rape culture emanating from the screens of our computers and smartphones? Check.
Millions upon millions of tiny human beings suctioned, shredded, dismembered, and burned to death in the name of “freedom”—the human cost of allowing us to copulate without consequence? Check.
While there are many depressing trends that we need to fight, one trend that it is encouraging is the number of people who have realized that the Sexual Revolution sold them a pack of lies.
And I could go on. But these sobering facts beg a very good question—how can the pro-life movement expect to impact, much less change, a culture that has gone so far?
The answer to that question, as I’ve seen in hundreds of personal conversations with high school students and university students, is that the truth eventually seeps in. There’s a reason that the current hyper-cynical, often nihilistic “Family Guy generation” responds so well to the pro-life message when we arrive at their high schools: When we tell them they’ve been lied to, they already know that. They’re just not sure how.
This is a generation that has never known what came before the Sexual Revolution. They weren’t part of the massive cultural shifts that resulted in the mainstreaming of pornography, hook-up culture, and abortion. It was simply bequeathed to them as their dubious inheritance.
And I say “dubious” for a reason—when you talk to a girl who had an abortion at 13 and was told by her mother or school nurse that it was “no big deal,” she knows she was lied to. When you tell a guy who has been hooked on porn since he was 10 and has never had a sexual experience that was not defined by that addiction that he’s been lied to, and that porn has changed him, he knows you’re telling the truth.
Teenagers dislike being lied to by adults, and when we confront them with reality, they realize very quickly that much of what they believed was nothing less than a failed cultural experiment.
Even mainstream media publications are slowly but surely admitting what social conservatives have said all along. Publications from The Atlantic to The New York Times to The Daily Mail are all admitting that pornography is warping the minds of the youth, creating situations in which girls are being coerced into sex acts they do not want to perform, impacting the ability of boys and girls to emotionally bond, and, bizarrely, rendering many boys and men sexually impotent.
The anti-porn movement has now driven an enormous wedge between those feminists and secularists who are honest about the damage porn has caused, and the Sexual Revolutionaries who are determined to defend every insidious and excessive manifestation of sexual “freedom.” After all, once we admit that certain behaviours are damaging and wrong, what’s stopping us from re-examining the whole bloody experiment?
The same goes for hook-up culture. Hannah Rosin of Slate, while ostensibly supportive of hook-up culture, was forced to admit in her recent book The End of Men that what many sexually-experienced university students wanted at the end of the day was just to go out on a romantic dinner date—an “experiment” that some of them had never tried.
TIME magazine released an article some time ago titled “The Hook-Up Culture Hurts Boys, Too”—tacitly admitting that the reality of hook-up culture hurting girls now just goes without saying. And while the Sexual Revolutionaries accuse social conservatives of being “anti-sex,” it is their ideology that has profoundly undervalued, debased, and degraded this most intimate of human experiences.
In fact, when a professor named Chap Clark set out to find the story behind the statistics of sex in high schools, he was shocked by what he found: “I was surprised to realize that for most mid-adolescents the issue of sex had lost its mystique and has become almost commonplace. They have been conditioned to expect so much from sex and have been so tainted by overexposure... as one student told me, ‘sex is a game and a toy, nothing more.’”
While there are many depressing trends that we need to fight, one trend that it is encouraging is the number of people who have realized that the Sexual Revolution sold them a pack of lies. The controversial actor and comedian Gavin McInnis, for instance, realized that everything he’d been told about abortion was wrong when he saw his wife give birth. I interviewed him some time ago, and he told me that he’s not the only one:
I think that the liberal world is realizing that, as I did, that it just doesn't add up. And I think the world is catching on. You can check the internet, but that's because the only place these liberal graduates, these liberalized graduates have to go, is the internet. So they spill out, and lost logic is seeping in. I was just at a conference, in Palm Beach this weekend, called Restoration, and there was a lot of old conservatives, and they were really negative, and they've given up. And I just kept saying to them, ‘Guys, the truth is seeping in. And the children in the information age, the really young kids, they don't believe all this.’ And I also noticed it with abortion. Like you have punks for the first time carrying pro-life signs, and you have bands like Flat Foot 56 being ‘Be a man, don't be a quitter, just because the child's within her.’ And I think that it's changing.
In many ways, it is. When we approach the youth of our culture today, we’re not telling them what might happen as the result of the Sexual Revolution, we’re telling them what has happened—and how to avoid those consequences themselves. We now know that the free love utopia promised by hedonistic academics and drugged-up hippies was as illusory as their narcotic-induced hallucinations. All we have to do is show them the half-century report card and ask them questions—ask them if porn and hook-up culture and abortion has made them happy. Our society has confused pleasure with happiness for too long, and now that we’ve gotten a good look at the fall-out, many people are rediscovering age-old truths that our culture abandoned on the ill-fated whim of those who thought to justify their own desires.
And yet, the truth seeps in. I know I’ve quoted this poem before, but Arthur Hugh Clough says it so beautifully:
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
“Look at the nation now. What a disaster...”
You have it all wrong! They just “need more time” for utopia and if we could just get “people to stop standing in the way of our progress” all would be wonderful!
That is the standard response of every marxist....
I guess the paradox of feminism is in the heinous observing woman really needing attention and observation. I have heard women saying they got with their man because he “completely dominated them” at the time.
Yep.... public schools fail hence we need more funding... is not what you hear in the private sector
You are off by almost 50 years. it began with Sanger in 1916. She began promoting ABC and then opened up "Clinics" in 1929 the same year that the COE accepted ABC.
Coincidence, I don't think so.
Very simple. It’s a part of what they call being “sex-positive.”
This is a core dogma of modern society in which all possible permutations of sex are good.
Since they also believe that rape is bad, they developed the ridiculous notion that rape has nothing to do with sex, but rather with power and domination.
Fairly obviously, a guy who gets off on the consensual games of domination will be tempted to eventually go for “the real thing,” which is of course the domination and rape of a non-consenting women.
But for these folks to recognize that glaringly obvious continuum, it would require them to recognize that the human sex drive can be perverted and misused at least as easily as any other of our natural inclinations. And that they cannot do.
Humanism is supplanting thinking through consequences...
Yep, and the “enlightened” humans will follow poor billy bob into hell - so much for “free” thinkers. And, people will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to send their spoiled kid to a college to be taught by professors like Ward Churchill so they can become an “enlightened” one. What total fools. They finish college not knowing one thing about history or how our government works only that they hate America and America is a war monger - as told to them by their “enlightened” professors.
I’m 53 and have been divorced for about 10 years. In that time I have dated a couple of younger women. 2 much younger,and my current fiancee is 43. Anyway. If you are older and “know enough” and you want to do some of the depraved things that most folks can only imagine, then I say “go ahead, it’s none of my business.” When I see and hear what doing these things do to a young persons mind and health then it is society that needs to take responsibility. Say what you want but a 14 y.o. cannot understand or can’t even grasp that what they are doing can affect them for the rest of their lives. After all “it’s only sex”.
“As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
One of my favorites! In fact, it is hanging in my cube for all to see....yet they are blind.
The government always finds it perfectly fine to attack tax payers and men in marriage, but never the hoards of illegals and the armies of pimps and their deranged willing amazon soldiers.
Oh... we pay them to do job and they keep weapons to avoid doing it.
I’ve seen that notion. An equally reasonable one, IMO, is that Islam was able to explode out of Arabia the way it did largely because the classical civilization was already tottering. IOW, Islam was a consequence more than a cause.
It is certainly a fact that the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia had fought an utterly exhausting war for decades, really centuries. By the time Islam showed up, neither was able to put up much of a fight.
Kind of the strategy some think we should have use in WWII. Let the Nazis and Commies wear each other out. :)
Indeed. The pill was not radical enough a test of the blood oath of murder of feminists
“How do the laws against domestic violence negate testimonies?”
Can I answer this one? Domestic violence laws are a way of controlling and disarming both men and women. Whatever happened to Assault? I’ll tell you.
With “domestic violence” nobody presses charges. Except the police. So, if you get into an argument with your Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Wife, Ex-wife, Ex-Girlfriend, Baby Momma, Baby Daddy or whoever, and the Police decide to intervene then somebody’s going to jail.
It doesn’t matter what the supposed “victim” say’s. It doesn’t matter what they don’t say. It doesn’t matter if there is no physical violence. It is what the police says it is. In the event that the “victim” actually calls the Police. You are going to jail. It doesn’t matter what the “victim” says when they get there. If the “victim” doesn’t want the case to go to trial? Doesn’t matter. If the victim previously made incriminating statements to the Police and wants to recant? Then they will be threatened with jail time for false reporting. There’s more........
Well... the young women do not realize that even if “nothing happens” does not mean that there was not evidence of malice irresponsibility in the other party who never would care for anyone or how the grapes they eat were grown.
Psychology loops around that way. That very hidden heinous thought while having sex is what affects them to accept it or confuse them at best.
In fact, a potential girlfriend of mine got enraged when I told her there was a difference between of appreciation between the drunk who breaks the bottles in the cellar and the monks tending and making and tasting the wine.
At the time I had no idea why she was so enraged by me suggesting a monk like contract of relationship that was caring. No, to her the hero was the drunk, the one to humanely forgive. The monk model was condemned and burned at the stake. She had prior admited to me that she was dating a 25 year old when she was 13 or 14 in South America. She then said she broke up with him and he was jealous... but he was the one neglecting and pushing her away obviously and wanted this to happen.
The pimp calculates that curse.
I guess. But I wasn’t talking about when nothing happens. I’m talking about when a lot of stuff happens.
Now, I’m guessing here...but I don’t believe it when your potential girlfriend was 13 years old and was seeing a 25 year old that nothing happened. And it probably scarred her for life. And the cycle continues. And I do believe it affects women/girls more than boys. And possibly explain all of the women I know that are walking around with snakes-in-their-heads.
In the end, weather you are a “monk” or a “drunk”, with these damaged souls sooner or later you are going to be on the losing end. Trust me on this.....
I believe you may be referring to Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitian magazine who turned it into a hedonist promotion of uncommited sex for ever-younger females, and Gloria Steinem, feminist founder and editor of Ms magazine, both of whom began their publishing ventures in the early 1970s, when magazines and telephones were the primary "social media" for women.
Sanger was the Godmother, Kinsey in the 50s was the Godfather.
There’s also a LOT of historical revisionism going on. For example, WGN has what was a promising new series, Manhattan, about Los Alamos and the building of the atomic bombs.
As of last week it jumped the shark and became unwatchable. But had been building to that point for a while. One of the lead scientists sneaks out to bang the American Indian domestic help. His teenage daughter is hooked on drugs (peyote) and banging an Army private. His wife is an environmentalist trying to get investigations started into some of the unusal things she’s seeing that are (obviously) related to what they’re playing around with.
The WACS are all prostitutes. There’s a McCarthyite black world investigator trying to target Commies. He stumbles on one of the physicists who is a homosexual (and former lover of a physicist who defected tonthe Soviet Union), but everyone covers for the guy (either out of goodness of the heart or extortion)
I was one episode away from giving the whole soap operatic mess up as the historically contrived/implausible elements were taking over from the good stuff). That episode was last weekend where the relatively Conservative/naive young Jewish wife of one of the main characters gets seduced by a lesbian neighbor (nubby is at Oak Ridge on a trip and the two have a drunken girls night out, followed by a girls night in) and responds very aggressively (cue Katy Perry).
The point being that while stuff like that was certainly going on (I believe fully the stories about Eleanor Roosevelt), it wasn’t nearly as pervasive as the show makes it out to be. Which serves to support and reinforce the historical revisionism designed to (Orwell being a prophet) undermine the common historical understandings that matter to our society.
Oh, left out the part in Manhattan where the single female physicist tells her married colleague about how she had had an abortion (the father had offered to marry her) after finding out she’d been selected to go to Los Alamos. That , as a woman this was her one shot to do what she loved, with a baby and husband being obstacles to overcome.
Since my son was a youngster I’ve taught him to wait until marriage before having sex. I’ve given him reminders from time to time: Hands to yourself; Be the kind of guy who can look a girl’s father in the eye and say (truthfully) that you have respected her; avoid pornography because it abuses the victim over and over again and leads to impotency; and if you ever need any help your father and I are here to help, not judge. He knows I’m speaking the truth because he knows that I fell into the traps of the sexual revolution. I’m printing this out and sending it to him.
What age did you approach these subjects in that kind of detail?
I don't think she's walking around any more.
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