Tonight I saw a brief history of "the sexual revolution", which occurred in America in the 1950's. It talked about how America lived very pent up during most of it's past and in the 1950's people began to emerge out into the public as healthy sexual creatures. Just prior to the status quo being violently overturned, it was known that people in this country viewed sex as something you just didn't talk about. It was, for the most part, whole heartedly avoided in discussion.
What seems fascinating to me is that people became so quick to overthrow goodness. It seems that all of a sudden, seemingly overnight, our culture suddenly found purity something that wasn't valuable. And their main cause for justification was the statement, "This is just naturally who I am. I should just embrace it. Why fight what you want?"
Why are we so quick to throw away goodness? Why do we refuse to protect purity? What happened in the psyche of the United States that we no longer found the strength to uplift cleanness and wholeness? It's so odd to me to hear the argument that you should be sexually healthy by acting on your impulses, especially if it means acting on them with someone you love. And yet studies and just basic commonsense at this point shows that the result of sex without real commitment takes an enormous toll on your physical, emotional and physical health.
Why do people do what so obviously leads to their downfall?
I made this a multiple part post because this very idea is on my heart as of late; this conflict in all people to do and act contrary to what their heart hopes the best for. It's an interesting question to ask, but I'm beginning to wonder: why do people justify and argue for the things in their life which mean them the most harm, while fighting and ignoring the few true things which would mean their joy?
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