Where have all the cowboys gone? Or something

Unlike some people, sex is not really my favorite thing to post about on the internet.  But I've stumbled on a couple of articles about it lately that I thought were interesting enough to be worth bookmarking for future reference, and sharing with anyone else interested.  In general both of these articles support Christian sexual ethics and contrast it with "modern sexual morality."

So here's the First Article: The Death of Eros

I don't go around talking about sex to everyone so it's hard for me to judge the accuracy of the information in the first article.  However I would not be at all surprised if it were true, and am happy to grant that it likely is.  The million dollar question, of course, is, if you read this and respond negatively, is that because of the possibility the article could be true?  If you've rejected the Christian perspective in favor of feminism, "liberation" and all the rest, are you really content with your sex life?  With your life in general?  Only you can answer that; I don't presume to know.

A lot of comments could be thrown in here.  Personally I believe we've hit a bit of a feedback loop involving a lot of other topics.  I'm completely generalizing here so bear with me.  I believe... and this is the toughest point to prove, and probably worth another whole post... I believe that feminism has resulted, over time, in a number of economic pressures that were less substantial 50 years ago.  (Cost of living, worthless college degrees, and the rest.)  The result of this is people marrying later.  The result of people marrying later is they lack a sexual outlet before marriage other than fornication or porn use.  The result of this is they are dissatisfied.  Out of this dissatisfaction comes feminism, because it isn't hip to even consider the traditional Christian stuff as a possible solution.  And so the cycle continues.

Now I know I didn't prove feminism raised our cost of living, and as I said, that's a topic for another whole post.  But I'll just throw out two tidbits as food for thought.  One, when women all decided it was more important to have a career than stay home raise kids, the inevitable result was that less competition resulted in lower wages for many jobs.  (As an aside, that's a really inefficient way to run a family.)  Two, one could argue a link between feminism and bloated and inefficient government programs, which are funded on taxpayer dollars--money a family can no longer save to better their own lives.

This article is also a bit of a strike at feminism within Christianity.  A call is made for a return to traditional gender roles in society.  Once again, no one should be allowed to scream at that unless you are truly content with your life.  There was a time that would have rubbed me the wrong way.

Next article: It's past time to re-think modern sexual morality

The second article reads as more of a call for Christians to take a firm position on these matters and stop capitulating to the world to try to impress people.  I don't expect anyone who doesn't value something close to Christian morality to agree with it but there it is.  If you don't have some consistent basis for sexual morality then what do you have?

And you're welcome for getting that fabulous Paula Cole song stuck in your head.  At least someone had this figured out back in the 90s....