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Writing in the Sunday bulletin, my priest recently decried the secularization of society, and specifically the relegation of sex to a mere biological function. "The conjugal act is sacred in that it has the potential to bring an immortal soul into existence," he wrote. Those words struck me as so clear and concise and profound. It was something I already knew, but had never thought of precisely in those terms. How is it that as a culture we've come to treat sex so lightly, to remove it so far from the realm of the sacred?
The answers are complex, but to a large degree can be traced back to one man: Alfred Kinsey.
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Phony statistics "proved" that premarital sex and adultery were commonplace. If fidelity and chastity weren't really being practiced by others, why cling to what must be old-fashioned and outmoded ideas? A Pandora's box was opened, and the seeds of the sexual revolution were sown.
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It was Kinsey's followers who started SIECUS, now one of the foremost providers of "comprehensive" sex education to schools. In accordance with Kinsey's teaching that children are sexual from birth, sex is treated not only as a biological function, but a function to be encouraged. A comprehensive sex ed curriculum doesn't dwell on how babies are conceived. It teaches children all about the different ways they can give and receive sexual pleasure from others. Oh, and there's likely to be considerable information provided on practicing "safer sex," including hands-on lessons requiring students to put condoms on bananas. Imagine how difficult it would be to walk out of one of those classes believing that "sex" and "sacred" even belong in the same sentence.
Writing in the Sunday bulletin, my priest recently decried the secularization of society, and specifically the relegation of sex to a mere biological function. "The conjugal act is sacred in that it has the potential to bring an immortal soul into existence," he wrote. Those words struck me as so clear and concise and profound. It was something I already knew, but had never thought of precisely in those terms. How is it that as a culture we've come to treat sex so lightly, to remove it so far from the realm of the sacred?
The answers are complex, but to a large degree can be traced back to one man: Alfred Kinsey.
...
Phony statistics "proved" that premarital sex and adultery were commonplace. If fidelity and chastity weren't really being practiced by others, why cling to what must be old-fashioned and outmoded ideas? A Pandora's box was opened, and the seeds of the sexual revolution were sown.
...
It was Kinsey's followers who started SIECUS, now one of the foremost providers of "comprehensive" sex education to schools. In accordance with Kinsey's teaching that children are sexual from birth, sex is treated not only as a biological function, but a function to be encouraged. A comprehensive sex ed curriculum doesn't dwell on how babies are conceived. It teaches children all about the different ways they can give and receive sexual pleasure from others. Oh, and there's likely to be considerable information provided on practicing "safer sex," including hands-on lessons requiring students to put condoms on bananas. Imagine how difficult it would be to walk out of one of those classes believing that "sex" and "sacred" even belong in the same sentence.