But what I simply cannot fathom, what stretches my mind beyond it\u2019s limits and puts me in a state of shaken awe is the current modern policy of having really terrible, boring, divorce-worthy sex<\/a>. I hope \u2013 though I am not entirely sure \u2013 that there was no single individual responsible, no persuasive, bookish man \u2013 probably with a small\u00a0mustache\u00a0\u2013 who stood on a podium and said, \u201cYou know what I think would be really great? If sex sucked. If sex was so lame that it couldn\u2019t hold marriages together. If sex became so commonplace and biological that it would be paired with watching a movie on \u201920 Things To Do on a First Date\u2019 lists<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Actually, I know there was no such man, because the common sense and justice of humanity would have hung him long before he finished speaking. No, it has been a matter of degrees, a steady worsening of a good thing, like slowly adding preservatives and chemicals to a food until, over the course of 70 years, you have a poison that nobody wants.<\/p>\n But it was the general attitude of \u201clet\u2019s get rid of taboos\u201d that started the whole thing, that much seems apparent. Might I take the moment to ask anyone reading this to be skeptical of a man advocating the eradication of a taboo, for the very word implies that human beings have been doing it forever, and it\u2019s a certain ugly pride to think yourself better and more brilliant than your hundreds of forefathers. If a thing is really old-fashioned \u2013 as in thousands of years of use \u2013 then it is not decrepit, not limping with a cane; it is a rugged survivor, probably wearing flannel. Abortion is decrepit. Wine is old. So when the common consensus of all of humanity is that sex is beautiful, doubt and feel free to mock the porno industry that says it\u2019s ugly.<\/p>\n
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| <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Let\u2019s give it the run down, shall we? Call it The Unofficial Timeline and List of Stupid Ideas\u00a0Propagated\u00a0by all Manners of Millionaires, Horny Individuals, Pseudo-Intellectuals and Eugenicists Concerning and Leading to the Crapifying of Sex. First was the idea that sex is just a biological act, and should thus be freed of all the morals and virtues that surrounded it. From what I can understand this came about when people thought they were the first people to realize the scientific concept that sex leads to children. But vomiting is a biological act and now \u2013 in the new and improved morality of the modern world \u2013 \u00a0the two are on par.\u00a0In steps birth control, and with some big shoes to fill. It sought to make sex safe, because S.T.D\u2019s and babies are caused by the lack of condoms, doncha know? (Actually, it first sought to get rid of those dirty Blacks, Jews and Irishmen, but shhhhh\u2026) \u00a0But safety \u2013 especially false safety \u2013 is never what makes a thing fun, rather, safety is the mom who put out your campfire and made you microwave marshmallows. Safety \u2013 which really only means the lack of responsibility \u2013 is the death of adventure.\u00a0And if that weren\u2019t enough, the same pills that make sex unexciting make women unexcited. Genius. \u00a0Pornography followed up on this \u201cno-virtue\u201d sex and did the world the massive favor of showing other, unrealistically better-looking individuals having sex, which had the marvelous effect of making realistic sex \u2013 that is to say, the only kind anyone has \u2013 disappointing, addicting men and women not to the flesh of their flesh, but to digital re-runs of actors whose once attractive bodies are now corpses, dead from AIDS years ago. (Oh snap.) This is all so pleasant.<\/p>\n Then \u2013 and if the rest was amusing, this is dark \u2013 then there is the attitude that, if all else fails, we can get an abortion. That\u2019s an attitude that can only ever darken the recesses of the mind, for if it were ever spoken aloud, if it were ever whispered \u201cif all our attempts to avoid\u00a0responsibility\u00a0fail, we can kill a child for it.\u201d then the very foundations of the universe would tremble, and I fear no prayer or fasting could hold back the wrath of God.<\/p>\n So to recap, the world is currently in the business of promoting unattractive,\u00a0unfulfilled, unexciting, unrealistic, meaningless safe sex. To which I say \u201cWhat the hell is going on with you people? I\u2019m a seventeen year-old virgin and \u2013\u00a0on the merits of being Catholic alone\u00a0\u2013 I could have better sex than you!\u201d Run that one up the flag pole, see if the porn industry\u2019s cool with it. The Church, in the face of all this nonsense, makes the radical statement that sex should be awesome. Which is really a little like making the bold statement that food should taste good. But in this with-it world, who knows what we\u2019ll be called to witness too \u2013 the very blueness of the sky may soon be at stake.<\/p>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3060433030054060305-3966641759517644267?l=badcatholicblog.blogspot.com\") <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are times when I look and survey the modern world and understand the appeal. I understand why the preachings of wealth, materialism, modernism, relativism, secularism and all the doctrines and dogmas of Today hold the congregation sway. It\u2019s attractive \u2013 at a shallow glance \u2013 and I get it, because it\u2019s all about our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"yoast_head":"\n |