RISE OF THE VIRGINS
I was musing about sexual liberation. As I recollect, it only lasted a decade.
I was musing about sexual liberation. As I recollect, it only lasted a decade.
In the 1960s it was still considered very taboo to have sex before marriage or extra-marital affairs. I was a teenager at the time and thought sexual attitudes were horribly repressive on something which was a natural response between people.
In the 70s the lid came off and we grew our hair, went barefoot in the flowers and practiced free love with joy. I took the fullest advantage and enjoyed the lovefest very much. (I will spare you the salacious details) .....
In the 80s we were terrorised with AIDS scares daily in the media. It was relentless and miserable. We were constantly warned that when we make love to someone we are also making love to everyone they had made love to, by proxy, so to speak. I divorced my husband early in that decade because I was unwilling to risk his bisexual preferences. Notably, I was not the only one who opted for the single and celibate but safe option.
Thereafter seems to have been one long deluge of fear porn related to sex. I so pity the younger generations who missed the decade of free love. They are bombarded with anything that may quell their instincts and direct them into isolation.
Yuval Noah Harari, homosexual darling and supposed genius adviser to Klaus Schwab, suggests that "the useless" should be controlled using drugs and computer games ...... I have no doubt that this is happening and soon we will be witnessing a generation of humans who remain virgin for their entire, short and lonely lives.
Am I right?
I am sorry you feel that way. My intent was not to raise anyone's ire; rather to state how I was taught and have held dear for all my years. It is these beliefs which have buoyed me throughout my life. Granted, as a male human being I have those feelings not unlike anyone else but I also realize that we humans are not 'animals';n the sense that we should learn restraint . To be able to practice sexual restraint is the first key step to self mastery. If I hope to grow in my spiritual life I need to curb my concupiscence and I can look at someone such as St. Augustine of Hippo as a primary example. Leading a life of debauchery he then had a major conversion and became the saint we know him as, today. Likewise his mother Monica who always held hope he would one day repent of his ways and experience conversion. For myself, to 'shop myself around', as it were would compromise my beliefs and leave me feeling very empty and devoid. Sexual taint can leave a person feeling far more soiled than anything else. Thank you for the exchange.
Since you were musing: “The Figure A Poem Makes”-Robert Frost 1939; on learning, abstraction, construction, liberty, love and poetry: it keeps its fragrance still, after decades of at least annually going back, revisiting; https://www.poeticous.com/frost/the-figure-a-poem-makes?ct=eppm&locale=en&oe=t&pid=VOF7NMYJUR