Regardless of how you view human sexuality, it’s almost impossible to deny that our culture is beyond obsessed with it.
Hardees apparently cannot sell a burger without advertising it in the hands of a bikini-clad model.
Calvin Klein now resorts to pornographic up-skirt shots to market a pair of underwear.
Girls are worrying more about makeup and wearing more revealing clothing at progressively younger ages.
The feminist movement demands that “slut shaming” is wrong, and that people should be able to be as promiscuous as they please without being questioned about it from the rest of society.
Nation-wide decrees are passed that demand people who feel like they would rather be the opposite gender can freely use whatever restrooms, changing rooms and showers they want.
Couples cannot commit for life until they sexually “test drive” one another beforehand.
Pornography is one of the most successful and far-reaching industries of any in our time (for shocking statistics about pornography in modern culture, click here).
And the worst thing about this is that hardly anyone sees a problem with it anymore. So what if boys in high school can legally waltz into the girl’s locker room under the guise of transgenderism? Why does it matter that marriages and relationships are crumbling under the pressure of porn addictions and sexual infidelity? Who cares that young children can hardly walk down the street or turn on the television without being visually and mentally bombarded by explicit sex scenes, borderline-graphic nudity and constant innuendos?
We should care–because our society’s glorification of and obsession with sex is destroying our ultimate perceptions of morality, beauty and value. These concepts are key to the success and collapse of people on individual, familial, cultural and national levels.
The problem, at its core, is driven by the fact that people want to do whatever they feel like doing, regardless of the consequences. Perversion and sexual addiction are justified by the idea that sexuality is just a natural part of human life.
I don’t completely deny the truth of this. Even religious people such as myself believe that God is the author of sex and that it was created (within boundaries) for both procreation and pleasure. The boundaries are important, though. Why? Because the natural aspect of an action or mentality does not, contrary to popular belief, excuse the social and moral wrongness of it.
Just because you feel like you want to do–or even be–something, it doesn’t mean you should. Emotions are great, but they are much too fickle to be the foundation of such a huge aspect of life as sexuality.
Because frankly, there is more to life than sex. There are careers to advance in, diplomas and degrees to earn, places to travel to, exotic food to eat, children to nurture and teach, oceans to swim in, books to read and people whose souls are worthy to be known much more intimately than their bodies. You die if you neglect food, water, air and sleep. These are needs. Our culture tells us that sex is a need and not just a basic need, but one to be fulfilled at almost any cost.
We don’t have to believe the lie anymore.
