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Re: Sex , Politics and Religion. » Sigismund

Posted by Dinah on June 15, 2007, at 0:24:17

In reply to Sex , Politics and Religion., posted by Sigismund on June 14, 2007, at 22:47:14

It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure that I agree with the two main parts of the assertion.

Maybe it's just because I'm from the South in the US, but sexual shame seems alive and well. Sure the tv might not look like it's so, but it is.

And I'm not altogether sure culture has become shameless either. In some ways I think we're more disappointed now because we expect more. And we expect more because we're educated to expect certain standards. I can't recall a time in human history where bigotry was as frowned upon as it is today, or where so many people gave a darn about the environment or the source of their nourishment. I often reflect that those scruples are something only a culture with a fair amount of abundance can afford.

Which does not mean that I don't decry the quality of TV programming, or the universal TV assumption that sex is obligatory on the third date. But I also remember my classmates. We grew up in a time even more sexually shameless than this one, I think. Yet I've never met a group of people who exerted more positive peer pressure on each other.

(But this does not in any way mean that I'm an optimist, or that I am in any way rosy eyed about the nature of mankind, or anything like that.)

I do recall something about sexual repression giving rise to great achievement through the redirecting of energies. But I suppose I've never given a great deal of credence to the idea that an era where sexual repression was the ideal was an era when there was actually less sexual activity.

On the other hand, it is rather refreshing to think of a time when a glimpse of a shapely ankle or calf would be exciting. Life was surely more titillating then than now when nearly naked women and men are everywhere you look. It's amazing that anyone can find anything sexually interesting anymore.

But I may have digressed a bit.

 

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