About our epidemic of sexual aggression

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“An aging Catholic priest suggested to a friend that all this was inevitable. “Contraception degenerates men,” he said, as does abortion. Once you separate sex from its seriousness, once you separate it from its life-changing, life-giving potential, men will come to see it as just another want, a desire like any other. Once they think that, then they’ll see sexual violations as less serious, less charged, less full of weight. They’ll be more able to rationalize. It’s only petty theft, a pack of chewing gum on the counter, and I took it.”
–Peggy Noonan

“Many Catholic parents and educators do not recognize or are in complete denial about the extent of SAB in young people, its support by the contraceptive mentality, and its enablement, particularly by females, who crave acceptance and affirmation.“

“A recent clinical experience with an adolescent male demonstrates this reality. When he refused the request of a female high school classmate to have sex, she responded with the hostile, insulting comment that he must be homosexual. This was followed that night by a telephone call from her irate mother to his mother, claiming that he was harming her daughter’s self-esteem and her right to have good sexual relationships.”

The last two quotes above are from Rick Fitzgibbons, MD, a psychiatrist writing a column for The Catholic Thing. He associates the current widespread sexual aggression to severe narcissism and selfishness, imbibed from the culture including parents and insitutions.

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Whenever you try and take a complex issue and simplify it back to one root cause then your analysis is flawed. There’s truth in what’s said but it’s far from the whole picture. Since the 2,000 years ago, people are literally living twice as long, (sensible) women now marry ~10 years later, women have less than half as many children and the world’s population has gone up 1,400% so the social good of multiplying at the same rate is debatable. There’s never been a time in history when our immediate environment looked less like the one our brains evolved throughout. No serious analysis would neglect to consider these factors.
 
Honestly I think it’s even hard to tell if we have an epidemic or not. There have been so very many reporting changes in recent history. A lot of older women report that there were things that happened when they were younger, that would be considered problems now but were “just how men are” then.
 
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When he refused the request of a female high school classmate to have sex, she responded with the hostile, insulting comment that he must be homosexual.
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In the girl’s defense, she probably learned that from television.

Even preteens are being taught on TV shows like “Andi Mack” (a Disney Channel show), that if you don’t enjoy kissing, even at a very young age, reason is that you’re gay.
 
We can’t forget to take into account different cultural expressions. In some ethnic groups it was (is) very common to hug and even kiss people you just met. (“Oh, you are my best friend’s cousin?”). It is not considered “sexual”, though who knows what a given individual is thinking, who is on giving or receiving end.

The problem is that not all members of an ethnic group, now next generation in America, think alike, and now different ethnic groups mix.
 
The average life span has increased dramatically, but that is because infant and child mortality has deceased dramatically, and no longer skews the average lower. The life span of those who survived into adulthood has also increased, but not doubled.

The age of marriage, or at least consumption, has historically been in the mid-to-late-twenties, when a man was established in his career and could independently support a wife and family. Earlier marriages (late teens-early twenties) in the 1950’s were a bit of an aberration, and directly contributed to the divorce sky-rocketing.

The marriage age today is rising today, as well as the durability of those marriages, to match the former stable status quo. (However, early unstable sexual relationships are still more common before marriage.)
 
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The last two quotes above are from Rick Fitzgibbons, MD, a psychiatrist writing a column for The Catholic Thing. He associates the current widespread sexual aggression to severe narcissism and selfishness, imbibed from the culture including parents and insitutions.
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There has always been sexual aggression, for hundreds of years. All that happened in 2017 were allegation about Judge Moore down in Alabama and the President, which caused a flurry of other accusations of others. I don’t know if Moore or Trump are guilty, but the allegations against them led to Franken and Weinstein and countless others being taken down. So I guess its a good thing, in a way, even if the allegations against Trump and/or Moore are false
 
From what Dr. Fitzgibbons writes in his article, it would seem that societal selfishness and narcissism has increased over the past decades, at least as noted in his practice. My own personal observations are that they have indeed generally increased over the past 50 years at least.
 
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Why do you think that as opposed to them just being more visible now? It’s something i debate with myself. I quit facebook years ago because it is just a tool for narcissism, but i’m not sure if people had the narcissism before facebook and they lack a platform for it, or whether the platform modified their personality.
 
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Because I’m old. Old enough to have experienced it myself. Many people have just become more narcissistic because that’s what they’ve been taught; that’s what they’ve learned. Heck, I’m more narcissistic now than I was in my youth. The culture is all encompassing.
 
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