The Orwellian Sexual Revolution

[JimG]

Sometimes the things that Rod Dreher writes about seem so outrageous and unreal that I might think that none of it concerns me. I don’t know of any people like the ones that may appear in his column, and Kansas is not New York City.

Still, I do not think he is writing fiction, because the media corroborate that the culture is changing rapidly. The sexual revolution is more than a half century old by now, but it is more important than the Bolshevic revolution in it’s impact on society, especially for Christianity. To quote Dreher’s recent article:

"The Sexual Revolution is the most important social event of our era. It has overturned many of the structures, practices, and ways of thinking that ordered human life for ages and ages. It has radically changed the meaning of family, marriage, male, female, even what it means to be human. It is changing the way we use language, which itself changes the way we frame our experiences of the world. And its principles negate the Christian religion, which I passionately believe to be true.

You cannot reconcile the Sexual Revolution to orthodox Christianity. You just can’t."

The rest of the article is here:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/orwell-1984-new-york-times-lgbt-newspeak/

 

[Aquinas11]

Still, I do not think he is writing fiction, because the media corroborate that the culture is changing rapidly. The sexual revolution is more than a half century old by now, but it is more important than the Bolshevic revolution in it’s impact on society, especially for Christianity. To quote Dreher’s recent article:

I’m currently reading “Lobido Dominadi” by Catholic writer E Michael Jones and he details how sexual liberation started around French Revolution in 1700s and has been going on for 250 years. Premise of book is that sexual liberation is used as a form of political control since as Augustine said “a man has as many masters as he has vices”. So the Oligarchs realized after French REvolution that the peasantry needed to be controlled, now that they were free of Crown and Church, but how to control them? Well with their own passions, of course. They read Augustine. Whether its contraception, gay marriage, abortion, pornography and (next up) sex robots, we all know that when our passions are raging, our mind is dull and our wits are tempered, thus we’re far easier to control by the ruling class.

 

[JimG]

That sounds reasonable. Dreher makes a lot of comparisons to Orwell’s work so he doesn’t go back that far.

 

[esieffe]

So the Oligarchs realized after French REvolution that the peasantry needed to be controlled, now that they were free of Crown and Church, but how to control them? Well with their own passions, of course.

Sort of like satanic carpet baggers…

 

[Aquinas11]

ARTICLE: We have gay marriage because the straight majority came to see sexuality as something primarily for personal pleasure and self-expression and only secondarily for procreation. We have gay marriage because the straight majority, in turn, came to see marriage in the same way—and two generations of Americans have grown up with these nominalist values on sex and marriage as normative.

Bingo. That’s the key and Jones makes the same point. Essentially, sexual liberation requires one to view their partner not as a human being, but as what he calls a “mastubory device”, just something no different than an object whose sole role is to help them achieve sexual pleasure. That was attitude during early sexual liberation movement and hence it makes sense why you’d then have objects and pornography now, which is just a natural extension of people helping someone achieve pleasure to objects helping someone achieve pleasure to imagines and soon to robots. Also glaringly obvious why its a departure from clear Catholic doctrine where both husband and wife are not engaging the act for pleasure, that is incidental, but primarily for procreation. And how God is present in the act, whereas God is nowhere to be found in the sexual liberation movement.

 

[edwest211]

The so-called Sexual Revolution was not a liberation from anything. I watched it unfold. It was carefully planned and marketed. It was designed to destroy the family and authentic male-female relationships. To replace them with a substitute. Those substitutes cannot compare to the real thing. To joyous, self-sacrificial love. To living in peace with your neighbors in stable homes. With a media that reflected your values until 1971. The 1970s when Adult Bookstores opened everywhere creating the planned addictions and increasing temptations.

People wanted to wreck society. That is the only way anything changes. People unknown caused this and they think they can go further. Reality has a way of stopping such things. Doing life the wrong way has bad to really bad results. Eventually, people begin to realize this and reject disordered sexual practices.

 

[puppson]

Fortunately there are still watchdogs like Lifesite News, who just this week preserved images of child abuse at Multnomah County Library from disappearing forever down the memory hole.

I refer of course to said library’s own posting of images evidencing a grown transvestite man lying on the floor cuddling with the children of strangers, allowing them to wriggle on him and straddle him. Multnomah CL deleted them from their Flicker page but…too late.

 

[edwest211]

You’re claiming child abuse. What was done about this?

 

[Wozza]

It was carefully planned and marketed.

People unknown caused this…

If only we had someone who was there and watched it all happen. They could tell us who these secretive and faceless men were. Someone who knows the media. Someone who knows how Hollywood works. Someone who is good at research. Someone who could leap tall buildings at a single bound.

 

[edwest211]

I detect sarcasm…

 

[puppson]

What was done? Nothing. What will be done? Probably nothing in this life, unless Sharia law is enacted. Some heads would surely roll then!

 

[puppson]

Some have nothing substantial to say here. Best to ignore.

 

[Tolle_Lege]

The sexual revolution appealed(s) to a very base human desire, but was / is also coupled with a false notion of love and affection, which makes it hard to resist for many people. It combines a misguided notion of love with acts generally regarded as “private,” and are brushed off with “it’s not hurting anyone, so why does it matter?” attitude.

When same sex “marriage” was made legal here in the US a few years ago, the “slippery slope” projection seemed to anticipate legalized polygamy as the next step, but instead we got pre-pubescent boys paraded around in dresses and forced to dance in front of gay men. The debauchery catapulted over anything we could have imagined as acceptable.

 

[meltzerboy2]

I suppose virtually all revolutions tend to go a bit too far including our own beloved American revolution. That would apply as well to the sexual revolution, women’s revolution, Black revolution, gay revolution. At the same time, there are benefits to these revolutions for people who have been oppressed for centuries. In my view, the one revolution that really defines an irretrievable loss to the human psyche is not so much the sexual revolution as it is the technological revolution. Despite benefits here as well, we are now stuck with such things as cable television with innumerable useless channels which we have to pay for; ready-made goods which lack any sense of hand craftsmanship and consist of built-in obsolescence; technological gadgets that the youth of the world cannot live without but which do nothing to enrich their mind or soul, as well as their ability to socially interact on a personal level; a host of pharmaceutical medications and food preservatives which are slowly but surely killing us; a dramatic loss of esthetic values with regard to the arts, which have been replaced with special-effects stage and film tricks; physicians who are not skilled anymore in performing clinical examinations but instead rely on countless medical tests which often reveal very little useful information; and on and on. I do not mean to derail this thread; but I truly believe it is technology more than anything else which has destroyed our society and our world, and it is only going to get worse since the younger generations of the present and the future cannot realize all they have lost, having no standard of comparison. I completely agree on this point with the late and prophetic Andy Rooney.

 

[esieffe]

You’re claiming child abuse. What was done about this?

Well two no doubt horrified mothers who were witnessing this were escorted out of the building by two policemen. Another two were posted to make sure they did not come back in, even though this was supposedly a public event in a public library. They were told they were trespassing.

I say horrified, because there were some mothers who objected to the event, but were encouraged to go anyway to take pictures.

 

[VeryBlessed]

Thanks to the OP for posting the article link. It’s observations and conclusions resonate. For years I have thought how profoundly pivotal that universal acceptance of the pill, birth control, became the linchpin for so massive a change as the sexual revolution has brought us to. As another poster has said, the seeds of the sexual revolution may be hundreds of years old (and are probably firmly anchored in our own sinful souls), but it took a giant step forward when easy, cheap birth control became universally embraced. It’s amazing to me that redefining sex as merely self-pleasuring, and not at all procreative, and not at all infused with the creative power of God, has so fundamentally changed our society. Pope Paul VI was absolutely right.

 

[Wozza]

It’s amazing to me that redefining sex as merely self-pleasuring…

I never cease to be amazed at comments like this. Pretty much summed up as ‘I can’t believe that people have sex just because it feels good’.

It’s like saying that you can’t believe that people drink beer because it tastes good. Yeah, people also drink it because they want to quench their thirst, but c’mon. Let’s be realistic here, can’t we?

And you obviously believe the system has been designed. So why do all young men spend all day thinking about sex? And why are they capable, and more than willing, to have it all day? Why does the human sexual urge match other animals so well? Why does it need to feel great for humans? There’s no requirement at all.

And now all that typing has made me thirsty. I need a beer.

 

[VeryBlessed]

I’m actually glad you both weighed in, I hate to see a great topic like this die of neglect. Of course sex is very very pleasurable, And no, I am in no way amazed that people enjoy it. What I am saying, is that the sexual revolution of the 60s would never have happened without the pill, and the sexual revolution is massively changing our society. And I’m not sure the changes are finished yet.

Regarding liberating women, I see what you’re saying. But most of the time I think the sexual revolution has been a massive victory for men. Consider how many women are freed and liberated to raise their children alone, as compared to before the pill. It’s liberating in one sense but perhaps enslaving in another.

I enjoy pleasure as much as the next person, but giving free reign to our every passion does not necessarily lead us to a good place.

 

[Economist]

I’m actually glad you both weighed in, I hate to see a great topic like this die of neglect. Of course sex is very very pleasurable, And no, I am in no way amazed that people enjoy it. What I am saying, is that the sexual revolution of the 60s would never have happened without the pill, and the sexual revolution is massively changing our society. And I’m not sure the changes are finished yet.

Up until this point I agree with you 100%.

Regarding liberating women, I see what you’re saying. But most of the time I think the sexual revolution has been a massive victory for men.

What kind of evidence can you propose for this opinion? It was a huge victory for everyone. Hopefully there will come another victory, when both parties will have to consent to the procreative part of the act. Who wants to have unwanted children? Isn’t it the best when every child is expected with happiness and pleasure?

Consider how many women are freed and liberated to raise their children alone, as compared to before the pill.

Where is the raw data for this statistics?

I enjoy pleasure as much as the next person, but giving free reign to our every passion does not necessarily lead us to a good place.

No one talks about “every passion”. It is a biological fact that the primates (higher apes and humans) are fundamentally different from the other animals. Only the primates are free from the estrus, only the primates are able to have sex outside the reproductive cycle. Some of the primates even discovered the wonderful stress-relieving effect of sex, they are who practice the great concept of the 60’s: “make love, not war”. Isn’t it a shame that the bonobos are much more civilized than humans? When stressed, they don’t fight, they have sex. No one is inclined to be violent in the times of ecstasy.

 

[VeryBlessed]

From an article at census.us -

The second most common family arrangement is children living with a single mother, at 23 percent. These statistics come from the Census Bureau’s annual America’s Families and Living Arrangements table package.

Between 1960 and 2016, the percentage of children living in families with two parents decreased from 88 to 69. Of those 50.7 million children living in families with two parents, 47.7 million live with two married parents and 3.0 million live with two unmarried parents.

During the 1960-2016 period, the percentage of children living with only their mother nearly tripled from 8 to 23 percent and the percentage of children living with only their father increased from 1 to 4 percent. The percentage of children not living with any parent increased slightly from 3 to 4 percent.