What, you mean the results of the sexual revolution ain’t quaint? Casual sex? One night stands? Multiple partners? Lack of commitment? Abortion?
Shocker.
How many people will look back, years from now, at their Facebook albums with the kind of nostalgia HuffPost writes about?
There’s something about our grandparents’ wedding photos that makes us yearn old-fashioned love — the kind of love that meant just holding hands on a first date, handwritten letters (not texts), and sneaking kisses in your dad’s Cadillac.
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I remember reading an interview with some politically active and fun loving European students of the second world war era who were asked about sexual activity of that time. They said they were interested in getting to know each other and doing things so sexual activity wasn’t really on their minds. They sounded like people worth knowing.
The comment re: sexual experiences weren’t something they were seeking out seems almost unbelievable doesn’t it?
I agree Faye. It does seem almost unbelievable – a world away. The ‘sexual revolution’ is sad and tragic for our culture and more so for the individuals who were/are caught up in it thinking it is ‘normal’ and ‘freeing’.
The other comment would be when a culture exchanges a worldview wherein people are seen as persons of creativity, life, significance, hope, dignity, love and value and relating is a time of caring and growing for an alternative where people are seen as simple matter then it should be no surprise that interaction is no longer joy and light but has become physical sensation. Materialistic universe or a personal one? What one thinks reality to be determines how one lives out one’s day to day actions. Sobering thought! The young Sophie Scholl understood this as seen in responding to her Nazii interrogator; ‘It is not me but you who has the wrong worldview.’
The other comment would be; when a culture exchanges a worldview wherein people are seen as persons of creativity, life, significance, hope, dignity, love and value and relating is a time of caring and growing for an alternative where people are seen as simple matter then it should be no surprise that interaction is no longer joy and light but has become physical sensation. Materialistic universe or a personal one? What one thinks reality to be determines how one lives out one’s day to day actions. Sobering thought! The young Sophie Scholl understood this as seen in responding to her Nazii interrogator; ‘It is not me but you who has the wrong worldview.’
So much to add here, so many thoughts. In a post-sexual revolution world, where sex can be had but babies not made, where we are counseled to delay marriage to ages where even the most virtuous among us would not consider it rational to wait that long to have sex, there can be and will be no such thing as old-fashioned love, because every single practical incentive works in the opposite direction.