By conservative estimates and studies, about one out of every three women who attended church last week, have at some point in their lives been abused— physically, sexually, spiritually. This is of course in part of the ongoing coarsening of our culture, in which sex, sexually explicit material is everywhere on display, in which porn is everywhere on the internet, even sneaking its ads into news websites and sports websites. Women are objectified and sex objects, rather than respected as sexual beings created in God’s image just as men are. But there is clearly a double standard, because the vast majority of sexual abuse is perpetrated by men on women, just as over 95% of all rapes are by men on women. Consider for a moment the following video by Halsey….. and yes the expletives are deleted.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/01/22/halsey-women-march-speech-poem-abuse-jnd-sot.cnn
This blog post is to note some of the contributing causes to this epidemic of male misbehavior: 1) the general spread of sexual promiscuity of all kinds, including the permission of our culture given to have sex outside of marriage or to treat it as no big deal; 2) the glorifying of sexual promiscuity on TV and in films, ranging from soap operas to late night talk shows to major films. 3) the obsession with appearances and how women especially, but also men look. 4) the incessant ads for viagra and other types of medicines meant to make someone hyper-sexually capable and active; 5) the push to get one’s private parts enlarged, by cosmetic surgeons etc. 6) the failure of parents to provide discipline and good moral examples for their children in regard to all of this.
It is time to call out the advocates of greater sexual openness and experimentation in our culture, and say—- ‘you can’t have it both ways’. You can’t on the one be promoting and constantly talking about sex and sex acts, and on the other hand say you are against the sexual abuse of women, especially younger women. This is just hypocritical on the part of sleazy politicians, actors, TV show hosts and the like. It is an endemic problem because men in power positions are fallen human beings like the rest of us, and when given power over women in the workplace and elsewhere, even in the church— abuses keep happening.
And frankly more talk and awareness of the scope of the abuse of women problem is good, but transparency without repentance, without a change of one’s sexual ethics, without the help of God Almighty himself, is not going to solve this problem. Information without transformation will not solve this problem.
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