After the mid-1960s, the progressive hangover began. Art and music took to the base, the abstract, and the ugly. The predictable outcome of the anti-authority, free-sex, anti-family, and drug-friendly culture from the mid-1960s did untold damage. The progressive story continues today, but now with more power.
Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.121
The public sex displays ruined whatever might have been fine about “Pride.” They still say it’s about “love” and “acceptance.” That stopped being true around 2013 in D.C., when it became common for shirtless old men to step out for pride downtown wearing leather harnesses, “transgenders” showing off their mastectomy scars and kinky deviants wearing fetish costumes. That has nothing to do with “love” or societal “acceptance” of romantic adult partners. That’s exhibitionism. And I never consented to being exposed to it. (Which is the same thing as sexual harassment, by the way.)
Eddie Scarry, Gays Ruined ‘Pride’ With Accepting And Engaging In Public Sex
Under the banner of “sexual liberation” and “bodily autonomy,” progressive voices have promoted the idea that personal freedom means unrestrained sexual expression, divorced from any moral or relational context. This ideology teaches that sex is simply a recreational activity, not something sacred or reserved for marriage.
When young people are taught that marriage is just one option among many, and that long-term commitment is unnecessary for fulfillment or family, the institution inevitably suffers.
By detaching sex from responsibility and love from duty, the left has promoted a culture of momentary pleasure over enduring purpose, eroding the very foundation that stable marriages and families are built upon.
Lauren Washburn, Universal Outrage Over Coldplay Cheating Scandal Shows Even Leftists Know Marriage Is Sacred.
After Democrats paved the way to the legalization of same-sex marriage, marriage could no longer be defined as a covenant between a man and a woman. The government didn’t just expand legal benefits — it fundamentally altered the meaning of marriage. It replaced a sacred, complementary union with a gender-neutral contract. This was a major blow to the sanctity of marriage.
Lauren Washburn, Universal Outrage Over Coldplay Cheating Scandal Shows Even Leftists Know Marriage Is Sacred.
If there was one thing the sexual revolution was supposed to deliver, it was lots of great sex. Yet it is failing to do so, in part because the casual sexual encounters it encourages are not conducive to satisfying sex. Hookups are a bad sexual teacher. They provide little opportunity or incentive to become a good lover, in large part because strangers don’t know how to please each other and aren’t going to stick around long enough to learn. And pornography is training people, especially young men, to be bad in bed.
Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All
Sexual liberalism produces unhappiness because it is inimical to relationships and practices that offer us profound meaning and joy in life. Deep relationships require deep commitments, but sexual liberation requires that every romantic relationship (and therefore also every parental relationship) be severable. Thus, the sexual revolution doubly cheats its disciples. Not only does its ethos of pursuing immediate pleasure injure the commitment that is needed for lasting and fulfilling relationships, but it also provides far less sexual gratification than promised.
Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All
Many Americans have come to see in recent years that the LGBT agenda was never about love and tolerance, but about forcing every imaginable type of perversity and debauchery in our faces.
Even children have not been exempt from this. In fact, a strong argument could be made that they were the ultimate target of that perversity and debauchery.
After the LGBT movement gained cultural acceptance and even dominance, it redoubled its efforts to evangelize children. Paul Lynde’s Uncle Arthur from “Bewitched” might have been a modest early attempt to win innocent youth, but as time passed the movement got more creative and aggressive, eventually booting up events specifically targeting the family.
Josh Manning, Graphic: Pro-Family Org Infiltrates 'All Ages' 'Pride' Event, Captures Sick Things Really Going on Inside
Read the whole article if you have courage enough to see the example. Disgusting is too weak of a word for this.
What started out decades ago as the statement, “What we do in our bedrooms is our own business,” has now morphed into, “Celebrate the many ways we indoctrinate and transform your children into our own image and devious lifestyle.”
Albin Sadar, Can the ‘Pride’ flag celebrate other ‘deadly sins,’ as well?
The sexual revolution required abortion to get rid of human beings whose conception is unwelcome, and this violent rejection of parental responsibility is self-perpetuating. By eliminating the reproductive consequences of sex, abortion encourages more casual sex, which then leads to more abortions. Thus, even though the sexual revolution has resulted in less sex overall, it has led to more sex in circumstances where a pregnancy will likely end in abortion. And as the fundamental solidarity of mother, father, and child is replaced with a selfish clash of competing interests, hearts are hardened as the most dependent humans are met with violence, rather than love.
Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage
A culture of promiscuity makes it more difficult to establish and maintain stable romantic relationships, and this then further entrenches a culture of promiscuity as people settle for hookups or open-ended relationships without commitment. This has decreased overall sexual satisfaction because people are most likely to have regular, pleasurable sex in committed relationships. Men may fantasize about bedding a new woman each night, but the truth is that very few have the status, wealth, or charisma to actually do so. For most of us, monogamous marriage is the best sexual deal we are going to get.
Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage
Because men and women are different, the current cultural and relational wasteland will play out differently for each, often in ways that make men and women even less suited for each other, thereby establishing a relational doom loop in which cultural corruption encourages individual dysfunction that damages and destroys relationships — thereby further entrenching both the cultural and individual problems.
Pornography is an obvious example. It may be especially appealing to men who have not, as a nature documentary might put it, been able to find a mate, but it encourages habits that make it harder for them to establish and sustain a relationship with a woman. For example, porn has taught a generation of young men to be aroused by degrading and dangerous kinks, such as sexual strangulation. The result is further alienation and enmity between the sexes.
Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage
When Democrats and progressives argue that abortion is about “women’s health” or “choice,” what they actually mean is they want to be able to have sex with whoever they want, whenever they want, without any responsibility whatsoever—even at the expense of sacrificing their children.
Marsha West, Pagan Idolatry and The Democrats’ Quest For Unfettered Sex
Every perversion known to mankind is being embraced and gradually legalized. The idea that morality is created by each individual as he makes decisions throughout each day is a step beyond anarchy.
Since Lawrence v. Texas decriminalized homosexuality, we have been in a state of moral anarchy. Crude and licentious parades with many naked or almost naked men celebrating sodomy are considered by many to be positive and invigorating.
The abrogation of Roe v. Wade in the recent Dobbs decision does not end abortion, but simply leaves the existence of abortion laws up to each separate state. There are so many different laws now on when it is legitimate to abort a baby. Thus, the people have decided that it is legitimate for citizens to decide when a life is a life.
E. Jeffrey Ludwig, Moral Anarchy: An Understatement
This [Sexual] revolution was supposed to have freed women from the injustice of sexual repression. Instead, it led to millions of women becoming pregnant and abandoned, left on their own, to raise their fatherless children. Many of them were, as a result, raised in poverty and amid crime. The welfare state sought to correct this mistake by subsidizing single motherhood. This, in turn, predictably increased what it subsidized.
Today, the harm wrought by the abandonment of sexual morality has left us with a society that cannot even recognize the good and natural differences between the sexes, even to the point of denying that there are two complementary sexes, and certainly denying that they are a naturally ordained partnership, one without which, society suffers consequences so pervasive that many people call them good.
Robert Arvay, The Truth About Morality.
Up until the 1960s, the out-of-wedlock birthrate in most segments of society was small, despite there being no reliable contraceptives widely available. One overwhelming reason for the low incidence of premarital pregnancy was social opprobrium. For a young, unmarried woman to be known not to be a virgin was considered shameful. For her to become pregnant was scandalous. The prospect of being humiliated was a powerful inducement, for women, to delay sexual intercourse until marriage.
The advent of the birth control pill changed all that, and as history shows, the incidence of out-of-wedlock motherhood, which was supposed to have been dramatically reduced, instead dramatically increased. Why?
The birth control pill helped to reduce the stigma of losing one's virginity before marriage. This, in turn, indirectly reduced the stigma of premarital pregnancy. This, in turn, reduced the perceived need for the birth control pill. Once the initial phase of these events had occurred, the floodgates were opened, and what quickly followed was what is called the Sexual Revolution.
Robert Arvay, The Truth About Morality.
Rainbow Mafia thugs claim there is an anti-LGBTQ+ movement in the U.S. that they feel is especially important to stand against. One way they will make sure that their deviant lifestyle is promoted and spread is by “educating” children. But sexual perversion is not something children should be forced to accept. Dragooning them to think about, talk about, or explore sex and sexual peculiarities is grooming both in a political and predatory sense. Set aside the desire to be seen as morally “good” or “trendy” and you are left with parents destroying the innocence of their children. It’s making them more vulnerable and accepting of things that aren’t good for them. There is a reason some content is considered “adult” and obscene. Children do not have the faculties to properly assimilate what they are seeing and come out okay on the other side.
Emily Griffin, “The Rainbow Mafia Hates Kids”
The hookup culture only benefited men. And men have benefited from abortion becoming a form of birth control. Abortion on demand meant that men impregnating women to whom they were not married came with no consequences. Abortion meant that men didn’t have to marry the woman they impregnated. Abortion meant that men didn’t have to raise the child they conceived. And abortion meant that men didn’t have to pay child support. Turns out that abortion is many men’s best friend.
Dennis Prager, “Supreme Court Decision May Force Young Women to Confront Sexual Reality”
The design for sex, ordained by the Creator Himself since the dawn of Earth in Eden, is that it belongs in marriage alone in a covenant between one man and one woman until death. Only in that context can sex be what God intended: a mutual self-sacrificing that is complete, unconditional, faithful, and ultimately fruitful. Although subduing the ground and bringing children into the world became painful with man’s rebellion, the aim of marriage and sex remained: “Be fruitful and multiply.” But oh, how we’ve strayed.
It’s easy to trace the degeneracy of America’s sexual mores. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s is a good place to start, with the advent of the pill, the second wave of feminism, and the so-called golden age of porn. All of these paved the way for the gay rights movement, Roe v. Wade, and the brave new world of sex without children.
Kylee Zempel, Sex Is Never Trivial, It’s a Life and Death Act.
Porn is immoral because porn treats persons as a means to an end, one’s own self-centered gratification. But at what undesirable cost? Porn isn’t simply “satisfying” lustful desires. It also shapes our view of sex taken into the marriage bed (if marriage is ever consummated) and objectifies women, among other things. Indeed, it is also linked not only to rape but to sex trafficking as its metaphorical “gateway drug.” When we watch, we inspire the demand. While not every pornographer (anyone addicted to porn) is a sex trafficker, every sex trafficker is a pornographer. Porn is the gateway to the sex trade industry. We supply its demand, and the providers cater to our “need.” Yet, the need is insatiable as it continues to grow and take on a life of its own to include and normalize Freud’s polymorphous perversity: sex with animals, sex with multiples, sex with kids, sex with robots, and so on and so forth to include increasingly violent sex.
Sexuality itself becomes identity. It becomes associated if not identified with who or what I am. Ultimately, it’s not all about sex. It’s much deeper. The sexual revolution on steroids with which we’re now seeing and was predicted is a symptom of the search for human identity, meaning, and significance, i.e., the quest for what it means to be human. This quest is orphaned when we kill God, and anything goes in His place. The existential quest is always a quest for “God,” but the “God” many seek is one made in man’s image.
Cory Miller, Is it Really All About Sex?
Prostitution is one of the most severe ways possible to demean women. Since she is made in the image of God, prostitution is a gross example of dehumanizing exploitation and a far cry from the glad use of sex that God intends. Made in God’s image, women are not mere sex objects, but human beings, equal to men in all respects (Gal.3:28) and not to be toyed with or exploited by them.
John H. Scanzoni, Wycliffe Dictionary of Christian Ethics, Carl F.H. Henry editor, pg.545
