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 imagine I am the contrary voice as one who (for myself) believes it should be reserved for the marital state. Am I formed by my religious upbringing/ Yes. But for myself it would be an emotionally deadening of myself to pass myself around to anyone on a whim because, in mys estimation, that is a part of yourself that you cannot get back; that it should be reserved for someone with whom one has a true emotional and spiritual connection within the bonds of marriage. Just speaking for myself and so, for myself, even at this advanced age and knowing that things will most likely remain as they are, given everything I have said; if that be my lot, as it were, then so be it.
Just for today, all I have to say about sexual “liberation” is that for me, it brought pain and acting out. Troubles.