Originally posted by: Moonbeam
When you look at the sexualization of women in the West, the pimping, prostitution, bulimia, fat insecurity, and all the attendant neurotic and sick expressions that go along with it, it makes one long for Taliban ascendancy. It is just too bad that one extreme is the only counter to the other. There is no doubt in my mind that selling via prurient sex or other sick appetites further degrade the already enormously degraded psyche of Western people, but caught up as they are in cultural elitism, they are blind to the situation.
Sex is sacred. In the West we turn it into shit and we fantasize we are liberated.
I was with you until the "sex is sacred" part. Tell that to all the other animal species that were humping long before we dragged our knuckles out of the muck. There is certainly nothing "sacred," i.e. God-given about sex, as humans are in no way uniquely sexual beings. Just look at the other great apes (Bonobos especially) and how they form sexual connections, and how many bird species form life-long monogamous partnerships.
Being complex emotional beings, however, we invest a lot of mental capacity into the sexual act. We're not wrong to do so, but it does complicate the issue in a unique way.
The issue here is the cheapening of sex, and there is
no fine line between understanding sex for what it is, and cheapening it for marketing purposes. Any religious group hijacking a naturally essential behavior that has been around long before any mythical deity was ever created is simply blowing hot air. I can get behind the dumbing down of good taste that has been prevalent in the marketing industry for many years now, but there is no violation of anything uniquely Christian (and certainly not sacred) here.
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