Your essay reminded me instantly of a "meme" image a cousin emailed me a few days ago. It consisted of a picture of a guy I assume is the male character in "Fifty Shades of Grey" which it then describes as "only romantic because the guy is a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer it would be a Criminal Minds episode."
Honestly, I'd like to take these "anything goes" people to any inner city ER on a summer Saturday night. Maybe after seeing the 3rd prostitute beaten, slashed, or suffering from a herpes outbreak on her (or his) colostomy opening, they would begin to see the harm they advocate.
I think the most pertinent line in your piece is when you say “nothing is sacred”. I believe this is the root of the problem. If life is just a meaningless pursuit of pleasure by individuals then anything goes. It is incumbent upon us to find meaning, to connect with the sacred nature of all things, so that we may build an alternative at story to the one that currently dominates culture. A story of connection and village mindedness.
I want to come at the sex work/porn angle from something a little more nuts-and-bolts (recognizing that even one pun in that sentence is one too many and begging everyone's forgiveness up front for that). "Laws" against such things require enforcement, since laws themselves don't magically stop behavior. What is a "just" punishment for a prostitute or cam girl? Who administers it?
Don't be too hard on sexual revolutionaries. "All beginnings are weak" as your father liked to say. Perhaps the most profound technological development in human history was the invention of the birth control pill that became available to millions of women worldwide in 1964. All of a sudden the ancient rules no longer applied: women could enjoy sexual intercourse without fear of becoming pregnant, just like men. Each woman had to work out what the rules were for herself.
I am in too much pain to go deep but I agree. Age 59, lived through the seventies permissive culture that groomed both myself and my perpetrator for my sexual abuse. I see us going from reasonable sex positivity as a goal to incredible sex negativity. I've been thinking about this quite a bit. Sex is being destroyed for people in ways the moral majority couldn't. Great essay!
It is, of course, true that sin and the harmful results of sin have been around for a very long time. What is different is that the prophetic signs of end times are here now. Sure, there have always been people who thought that the end times were approaching, but now the biblical signs are here in abundance. I can't go into all of the biblical and societal stuff in a short comment but there are a lot of resources on the subject at places like olivetreeviews.org. I would just say that nothing now stands in the way prophetically of Jesus Christ returning for his church in the Rapture at any moment. If things are bad on earth now, they will be much worse when all of the true Christians are taken to heaven in the Rapture and unbelievers are left on earth for the horrible seven-year tribulation to come. There is no time like the present to make a decision to follow Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture.
Having spent a little time in other parts of the world where prostitution is partially outlawed but still legal in many respects, I know more than a little about it. Although prostitution as such was not legal in most Asian countries, it was still practiced. In Asia, women are down a few notches on the totem pole. I don't know how most of the girls I knew got into the business, but I doubt that any of them would have considered themselves to be prostitutes. Rather, they were bar girls, B-girls. They were employed by the bars to solicit drinks out of their customers - young American GIs. After the bar closed, they were free to go with the guy they had been hustling or not. Some would but others would backdoor their customer - they'd tell the guy they'd meet him at the front door then go out the back. I knew one girl in Okinawa. She was a very pretty girl with Caucasian features although she was vague about being Amerasian - she did have some Amerasian friends, including the reigning Miss Okinawa (who I met.) I once asked her why she worked in a bar and she replied "Beats working in the sweet potato fields.)
Whorehouses were illegal in France but prostitution was not. I never went there but there was a hotel near the base where girls set themselves up and it was thus legal. In Spain, where prostitution was illegal but also legal. girls would patronize nightclubs where potential customers would come up to them and negotiate an arrangement.
My point is you can whimper and whine all day about it, but you're not going to stop either pornography or prostitution, no more than you're going to stop drug use, alcoholism or any other vice.
There is nothing complex about sex. Sex is a reproductive function. Nothing else.
Of course that when the degenerate Uman animal Thought takes over "sex" becomes a "complex" thing.
"I grew up in an environment that had nothing bad to say about the sexual revolution that broke out in the late 1960’s.", it was due to that sexual degeneration that GRID manifested itself.
Next comes the Past... Since we aren't willing to CHANGE the Present the Future will be just like the Past. The only difference will be the toys we use.
I had to look Allela up to remember who she it, then I found a story about her I'd read a while back.
When it comes to prostitution, most Americans have no clue that the United States is the ONLY country in the world where it's not legal - it's legal in the US in a couple of counties in Nevada. Other countries, including Ireland, do not prohibit prostitution but they prohibit brothels and in some cases, as is the case in Ireland, prohibit paying for sex (sort of a conundrum there.) Prostitution is as old as the human race. Several women in the Bible were "harlots," prostitutes. Some of them became respectable women and were ancestors of none other than Jesus of Nazareth. Irish immigrant women to the United States in the nineteenth century were notorious for prostitution.
Pornography is not prostitution and to attempt to link them is dishonest. Rather, it's exhibitionism. The women and girls who engage in it want to be seen. It's been around as long as there have been cameras.
As far as the "sexual revolution" goes, I'm not so sure it actually happened but was more of a media invention. I was a single young adult in the 1960s and seventies and knew a lot of single women. NONE of them were particularly promiscuous, well, maybe one. Some would Jimmy Buffet, meaning they'd get drunk and screw. The only thing that really changed was the advent of birth control which may or may not have given women more freedom - there are a lot of people around whose mothers were on some form of birth control. Prior to the pill, the means of birth control was the rubber. There had always been sluts around, girls who would screw because they liked it. The "sexual revolution" gave them legitimacy. The factor that truly gave women more freedom was higher education, particularly after it became coed. Women and girls humped their bottoms off during World War II, and not just in England where a vast army of young American troops overwhelmed the population.
By the way, crusading against prostitution, and now pornography, is as old as the hills. People are going to do what people are going to do.
Your essay reminded me instantly of a "meme" image a cousin emailed me a few days ago. It consisted of a picture of a guy I assume is the male character in "Fifty Shades of Grey" which it then describes as "only romantic because the guy is a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer it would be a Criminal Minds episode."
Honestly, I'd like to take these "anything goes" people to any inner city ER on a summer Saturday night. Maybe after seeing the 3rd prostitute beaten, slashed, or suffering from a herpes outbreak on her (or his) colostomy opening, they would begin to see the harm they advocate.
I think the most pertinent line in your piece is when you say “nothing is sacred”. I believe this is the root of the problem. If life is just a meaningless pursuit of pleasure by individuals then anything goes. It is incumbent upon us to find meaning, to connect with the sacred nature of all things, so that we may build an alternative at story to the one that currently dominates culture. A story of connection and village mindedness.
The only way to respect a prostitute is to not pay them for sex.
I want to come at the sex work/porn angle from something a little more nuts-and-bolts (recognizing that even one pun in that sentence is one too many and begging everyone's forgiveness up front for that). "Laws" against such things require enforcement, since laws themselves don't magically stop behavior. What is a "just" punishment for a prostitute or cam girl? Who administers it?
The way I see it. The way they’ve not just walked off the cliff but driven off in a drag car. The inevitability is children. Thats how I view it all.
Don't be too hard on sexual revolutionaries. "All beginnings are weak" as your father liked to say. Perhaps the most profound technological development in human history was the invention of the birth control pill that became available to millions of women worldwide in 1964. All of a sudden the ancient rules no longer applied: women could enjoy sexual intercourse without fear of becoming pregnant, just like men. Each woman had to work out what the rules were for herself.
I am in too much pain to go deep but I agree. Age 59, lived through the seventies permissive culture that groomed both myself and my perpetrator for my sexual abuse. I see us going from reasonable sex positivity as a goal to incredible sex negativity. I've been thinking about this quite a bit. Sex is being destroyed for people in ways the moral majority couldn't. Great essay!
It is, of course, true that sin and the harmful results of sin have been around for a very long time. What is different is that the prophetic signs of end times are here now. Sure, there have always been people who thought that the end times were approaching, but now the biblical signs are here in abundance. I can't go into all of the biblical and societal stuff in a short comment but there are a lot of resources on the subject at places like olivetreeviews.org. I would just say that nothing now stands in the way prophetically of Jesus Christ returning for his church in the Rapture at any moment. If things are bad on earth now, they will be much worse when all of the true Christians are taken to heaven in the Rapture and unbelievers are left on earth for the horrible seven-year tribulation to come. There is no time like the present to make a decision to follow Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture.
Having spent a little time in other parts of the world where prostitution is partially outlawed but still legal in many respects, I know more than a little about it. Although prostitution as such was not legal in most Asian countries, it was still practiced. In Asia, women are down a few notches on the totem pole. I don't know how most of the girls I knew got into the business, but I doubt that any of them would have considered themselves to be prostitutes. Rather, they were bar girls, B-girls. They were employed by the bars to solicit drinks out of their customers - young American GIs. After the bar closed, they were free to go with the guy they had been hustling or not. Some would but others would backdoor their customer - they'd tell the guy they'd meet him at the front door then go out the back. I knew one girl in Okinawa. She was a very pretty girl with Caucasian features although she was vague about being Amerasian - she did have some Amerasian friends, including the reigning Miss Okinawa (who I met.) I once asked her why she worked in a bar and she replied "Beats working in the sweet potato fields.)
Whorehouses were illegal in France but prostitution was not. I never went there but there was a hotel near the base where girls set themselves up and it was thus legal. In Spain, where prostitution was illegal but also legal. girls would patronize nightclubs where potential customers would come up to them and negotiate an arrangement.
My point is you can whimper and whine all day about it, but you're not going to stop either pornography or prostitution, no more than you're going to stop drug use, alcoholism or any other vice.
The only way to end the sexual degeneration requires the extinction of the animal generating it. As long as the animal lives there is no end to it.
"With something as complex as sex"
There is nothing complex about sex. Sex is a reproductive function. Nothing else.
Of course that when the degenerate Uman animal Thought takes over "sex" becomes a "complex" thing.
"I grew up in an environment that had nothing bad to say about the sexual revolution that broke out in the late 1960’s.", it was due to that sexual degeneration that GRID manifested itself.
Next comes the Past... Since we aren't willing to CHANGE the Present the Future will be just like the Past. The only difference will be the toys we use.
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I had to look Allela up to remember who she it, then I found a story about her I'd read a while back.
When it comes to prostitution, most Americans have no clue that the United States is the ONLY country in the world where it's not legal - it's legal in the US in a couple of counties in Nevada. Other countries, including Ireland, do not prohibit prostitution but they prohibit brothels and in some cases, as is the case in Ireland, prohibit paying for sex (sort of a conundrum there.) Prostitution is as old as the human race. Several women in the Bible were "harlots," prostitutes. Some of them became respectable women and were ancestors of none other than Jesus of Nazareth. Irish immigrant women to the United States in the nineteenth century were notorious for prostitution.
Pornography is not prostitution and to attempt to link them is dishonest. Rather, it's exhibitionism. The women and girls who engage in it want to be seen. It's been around as long as there have been cameras.
As far as the "sexual revolution" goes, I'm not so sure it actually happened but was more of a media invention. I was a single young adult in the 1960s and seventies and knew a lot of single women. NONE of them were particularly promiscuous, well, maybe one. Some would Jimmy Buffet, meaning they'd get drunk and screw. The only thing that really changed was the advent of birth control which may or may not have given women more freedom - there are a lot of people around whose mothers were on some form of birth control. Prior to the pill, the means of birth control was the rubber. There had always been sluts around, girls who would screw because they liked it. The "sexual revolution" gave them legitimacy. The factor that truly gave women more freedom was higher education, particularly after it became coed. Women and girls humped their bottoms off during World War II, and not just in England where a vast army of young American troops overwhelmed the population.
By the way, crusading against prostitution, and now pornography, is as old as the hills. People are going to do what people are going to do.