Okay time for a super awkward (and yet again super opinionated) post...
It's almost Valentine's Day. Some of you may appreciate that; the rest of you (myself included) are uttering a universal groan of disgust. Either way, with the approach of Valentine's Day the web is abuzz with ideas for romantic gifts, presents, and dates.
Unfortunately, they're doing it all wrong. My roommate and I read the articles when our brains are fried from studying and then laugh at the stupidity of it all. Half the articles are giving their readers "advice" that if actually followed will without a doubt tear a relationship apart and the other half are just trying to get a relationship into bed. It's ridiculous.
Say what you like, but the point of a relationship, whether you're married or not, is not just sex.
"Society" would have you believe that that's all it's about. If you don't believe me, let's look at it in a bit more detail...
What's the last movie you saw? Think about it a minute...Was there a sex scene in it? If there was, were they married or even, for that matter, in a relationship? Completely ignoring the sex scene that may or may not have been in the movie, how many innuendos, crude comments, or scantily clad women (or men) obviously sending a certain message were there?
Surprised?
Our society has made sex--with anyone, anytime, anywhere--an acceptable part of life, even desirable. It's also become ordinary and blase, not a special or sacred thing about it.
Take for example my lovely college setting. I know a group of kids who play a game at dinner...if someone burps, everyone says a color, the last person to say a color or anyone who repeats a color already said has to make a sex noise. Now let's think about the implications of that game.
On the surface it appears harmless, if a little dumb. BUT (and isn't there always a but?) if we delve deeper, a game like that has turned sex into nothing more than something that is base and carnal. Something unimportant that can be thrown before a crowd. This view of sex is a mockery of the power we have been entrusted (and if you're wondering, yes, by God). The power to create life. The power a man and woman who have been married have the right to use.
And here's another one: this week at my school it's apparently "Sexual Responsibility Week". SHAPE (Sexual Health Awareness Peer Educators) are going to be giving out condom grams (I really don't even want to know) and condoms this week as well as information on how to avoid getting sexually transmitted diseases.
Yet again, I'm sure there are people who are fine with this, who think it's a good thing, because, hey, if the kids are doing it shouldn't we at least help them be safe? no. No. NO. Handing out condoms? Seriously? I can just picture the meeting, "Hey, I've got an idea, let's hand out condoms! That'll make sure everyone is safe!" Yeah, and I'm sure it'll also keep everyone from getting STDs or getting pregnant too. And that my friends is what we call the logic disconnect.
Maybe if we taught our kids not to sleep with everyone they had a momentary connection to and maybe if we didn't expose them to every sleazy piece of junk on the TV and radio, we wouldn't have such a big problem. Maybe if WE set a better example, then the future generations won't be as messed up as this one.
Think what you like, but a people who live like we do and at the speed we do, aren't going anywhere good. We're going somewhere bad, fast. Maybe if someone decides to take into account exactly what they're doing to themselves--physically, emotionally, spiritually--it'd get a bit better, but like I said last time, that would require people to start thinking again instead of just following the crowd.
As for me, I've never had the desire to be a lemur.
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