Saturday, September 10, 2011
Let's Talk About Sex
Attitudes towards sex have certainly changed with the times. Our grandparents most likely only kissed before marriage. Now it seems like sex is only...well sex. It seems that there are more one-night-stands and less pressure to get married so young. The only word to describe sex in today's culture is casual. Its casual in conversation, in the media, and even the act of. The words "sex" and "love" are growing farther apart. This can be considered a positive movement because sex and sexiness are no longer the elephants in the room. On the other hand STDs are more common and marriages don't last. The lack of censorship is also desensitizing us to sex and sexiness. If a woman knocked on my door and she was naked when I answered, would I even notice anymore? Would you? Maybe to improve this negative aspect we as a society should leave more to the imagination and try to instill the "wait" in our children when it comes to sex.
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It is a common misconception that pre-marital sex is a modern invention. This isn't the case. Many of our grandparents had sexual lives prior to marriage, as did many generations before them. Sex wouldn't have been as commonly spoken of, and there were fewer options to avoid pregnancy and STDs, but the sex itself was still fairly common.
ReplyDeleteAs you your question, if a naked woman knocked on my door, I would assuredly notice.
Trying to instill the "wait" in children may be next to impossible with how many television series and other ways of media are advertising sex or close to it.
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