Increasingly Secularized Americans Are Sexless, But Catholics Might Be Bucking the Sex Trends

Increasingly Secularized Americans Are Sexless, But Catholics Might Be Bucking the Sex Trends March 8, 2017

. . . at least according to Andrew Greely, in his Sex: The Catholic Experience, and several other more recent studies I’ll discuss tomorrow, Catholics have always had higher rates of participation in sex in all its variations. I’ll take this up tomorrow and explain how it ties to the experience of God and how it helps to augment theories of secularization tomorrow. For now I’ll say that there is ample evidence from the work of Philip Goodchild that “death of God” is intimately tied to the rise of capitalism, which appears to be killing our libido with pursuits of wealth.

51uUAplIjwL__SX331_BO1,204,203,200_Weirdly enough, Marx and Engels were onto this destruction of ancient desires and traditions when they wrote in the much maligned, but rarely read, Communist Manifesto:
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors,” and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment.” It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade.
It’s been said you cannot worship God and mammon simultaneously. Perhaps the Catholic imagination can save us from this malaise?

If sex is your thing, and if you are Catholic, it more likely is than not, then you’ll want to look at The Liberty at Bottom of the Formless and Sexless Void

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