The ideologies of sexual revolution and feminism promised all of us wonderful things and there have been positives which have come about over the past fifty-years. There have also been costs and we have ventured into areas which could not be imagined at that time. How are we to judge the plusses and minuses, the gains and losses, the freedoms gained and their costs? Like most movements, no one can ever declare victory and let the movement rest on its laurels; there are too many people who have profited from the movement that has become either an industry or religion. Indeed, it has a momentum of its own and to question any aspect of the path being travelled earns the title of “hater,” “homophobe,” “misogynistic,” etc.
Can movements be judged, and can they go too far? Is it acceptable for Planned Parenthood, which receives funding from the Federal government (meaning you) to target eleven-year-olds and to inform them that they can have sex with anyone under the age of thirteen and to disregard their parents’ wishes? Gay marriage, it was argued, would strengthen the institute of marriage yet lesbian marriages in the Netherlands and Great Britain are two to two and a half times more likely to end in divorce than heterosexual marriages. At the same time, no default divorce has enabled more marriages to dissolve for “low-level problems” communication problems and poor personal interaction in place of physical abuse. Women’s needs are socially reinforced while men from the earliest age are told to be more like girls. Sexual freedom has led to more experimentation with homosexuality which has in turn led a homosexual suicide rate several times higher than that of heterosexuals.
There is no objective standard to measure happiness, but are divorce rates, suicide rates, medication rates, etc. indications that we may have gone too far? Is there a way back? If not, do we really want what we see before us? If there is a way back, what is the cost?
Follow this link for an article that is frightening in its implications:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/11/sexual-counter-revolution
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