Rotten fruit of sexual revolution

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I liked that article, not least because it demonstrates what Abraham Lincoln once said:

“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

The politicians play to the young voters, and they know what a corrupted youth have been taught to want. Then they give it to them … good and hard.

This is the only way to explain why idiotic government officials are actually supporting same-sex marriage. The professors have been teaching it as the natural consequence of moral relativism.
 
The article is a complete failure.

I have not read the books but if like the article they fail to address the root cause which is contraception, they fail as well. None of the ills we face as a result of the so called sexual revolution would have been possible were it not for the widespead acceptance and use of artificial contraception.

In the 1930’s, mainstream Protestant Christianity declared contraception not to be sinful in certain situations. This opened the floodgates. As contraception went from permissible in specific circumstances in the 30’s and 40’s, to widely acceptable if “Prayerfully considered” in the 50’s to “A gift from God” in the 60’s, the culture of recreational sex was born. The culture of recreational sex, reaching critical mass in the 60’s, brought about an almost instantaneous demand for abortion and the result is Roe v Wade in the early 70’s. Now we have an entire culture of fatherless children, middle class husbands addicted to porn and European countries not even able to replenish their Christian populations to the point where Islam is becoming the predominant religion.

As long as the pro-life movement and other mainstream Christian proponents of sexual purity - including Catholicism as exemplified by this aricle cited - ignore contraception as the root cause, they have treated the symptom only and have failed.

And as long as Catholics - who really ought to know better - quitely fill percriptions for birth control pills and burn a few vacation days for minimally invasive outpatient vasectomies, they contribite to the problem and really bear the brunt of the blame.

-Tim-
 
The Pill was not approved by the FDA until 1960. In the United States, most people lived on farms or rural areas, so it was not until 1967 that it reached widespread use. The public had to be convinced to accept it so various movements were created to promote the contraceptive mentality: Hippies, the National Organization for Women and people like Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. Magazine in the 1970s (yes, that is where that word came from), a kind of Playboy for women.

Pope Paul VI had Humanae Vitae published in 1968 but the radicals and subversives were just getting started. He warned what would happen if his words were not heeded. He was right.

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The groundwork had to be laid for hedonism as the paramount philosophy of the young, and this was pretty much done by the late 50s by Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine.

Given hedonism as an acceptable philosophy of life, how could contraception not be the logical outcome? Sex for its own sake … whatever you can get away with. If not, have an abortion.

But atheism was already all the rage, coming out of Europe with the influence of people like Jean Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud and Bertrand Russell. None of this was possible without the cooperation of the public schools and colleges which were promoting socialism, legal drugs, rotten music, and revolution in the classroom.

I started my teaching career in the 60s. It was the worst of times. I see no path back to sanity if not the Catholic Church.
 
Yet the Anglican Church stands first, when at the Lambeth Conference in 1930, it announce that under some circumstances, contraception would be allowed. Understand that they reversed 3500 years of Jewish and Christian teaching and declared that artificial birth control was not always a sin.

No Protestant Church had taught this prior and it was the first crack in the dam. All the other Protestant Churches caved in within a decade. Condom advertising in the USA up to that time was restriced in most states to discussing disease prevention. With the appovoal of the Church however, condoms were no longer something which only soldiers fighting in France carried. The social stigma associated with condoms were lifted with the determination that artificial birth control was no longer sinful and the rest, as they say, is history. Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt, abortion on demand, et al all came as a result.

I’m not saying that artificial birth control is the sole cause or that none of this would have happened without it. Nor am I under any pretense about the almost impossible odds against reversing the problem. I just think Catholics bury their heads in the sand with regards to the root causes of some of our social ills by using generic terms such as “Sexual promiscuity” to gloss over the fact that their own contraceptive use contributes greatly to the problem. They blame MTV, schools, the Internet, aetheism and Sigmund Freud yet they don’t see how much their own behavior contributes.

-Tim-
 
TimothyH said:
I have not read the books but if like the article they fail to address the root cause which is contraception, they fail as well. None of the ills we face as a result of the so called sexual revolution would have been possible were it not for the widespead acceptance and use of artificial contraception.
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This is absolutely true. Society doesn’t even think that something as “great” as artificial contraception could ever be the cause of something bad.

But it’s the truth. Why was artificial contraception invented? Society will say, “DUH, to prevent pregnancies”. But is that true? No. The world had a perfectly 100% natural way to prevent pregnancy already. Don’t have sex.

Artificial contraception was invented to take the purpose of procreating out of the sexual relationship so that we could just do it as a recreational activity. It was promoted as having the additional benefit of preventing STD transmission. Which is just a cover of saying that it’s ok for us to have multiple partners.

So what did this lead to? You have people having sex, but not wanting kids. People with STDs having multiple sexual partners.

Then of course, what happens when the contraception fails? You have infection spread, or unwanted pregnancies. The unwanted pregnancies lead to abortions.
 
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**But it’s the truth. Why was artificial contraception invented? Society will say, “DUH, to prevent pregnancies”. But is that true? No. The world had a perfectly 100% natural way to prevent pregnancy already. Don’t have sex. **

Exactly, it was invented to make possible the hedonistic life style. Obviously, sexual promiscuity is an evil on many counts. Some way had to be found to make sexual hedonism less risky and acceptable … and they found it. The hedonism existed before the contraceptive devices, and was the cause of their invention. But once the devices were invented, the philosophy of hedonism spread like wildfire thanks to decisions of the Supreme Court on pornography, the ACLU, Hugh Hefner, Madalyn Murray O’Hare, Bill Baird, NOW, et. al.

You cannot isolate one thing as the cause of moral decay in America, but if you could identify the most basic causal factor, I would call it rampant sexual hedonism rather than contraceptive devices. Even drugs owe their popularity to hedonism … seeking the pleasurable high that for some people is even more important than sexual orgasm.
 
I think it’s unfair to describe the article as a “fail.” In fact, I entirely agree with it, except it is a serious omission to fail to discuss the way that contraception enabled the unhealthy cultural shift.

Contraception isn’t, itself, the root cause. It is the active disabling of a regulating function God built into human sexuality that tends to push back against our tendency towards lust and promiscuity. Disable fertility and the appetites can run wild (seemingly) without consequence. Until the troubles start: depression, loneliness, unfaithfullness, divorce, abortion, disease…

Contraception itself doesn’t cause all these things, undisciplined human appetites do. Contraception just further encourages each of them by removing the most obvious and immediate of consequences of vice, thus giving the illusion of eliminating the harm.
 
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