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[–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The thing with sexual freedom is that people will often associate their passions with their identity without knowing that those passions are easily malleable from outside sources. Sexual liberation is essentially used as a means to politically control people into thinking that they're excercising their "freedom" by jacking off to porn. The fatal flaw with this is that the appeal to liberty (sexual freedom) led to the suppression of religion and morals, causing social chaos. Basically the proclamation of "freedom" comes with the erosion of morality with any revolution, and once a society no longer finds the religious foundation of morals plausible it's necessary for there to be social control in order to prevent chaos.

For a homogoneous society to exist there needs to be integrity, and without a moral compass for everybody to follow you get what we have now. Hedonists that persue sexual pleasure and are only interested in their own personal gain. I think it's important for people to realize what our compulsions are and why we should control them in order to realize why the media tries so hard to influence us into prostitution, porn, etc. It sells. It's no secret that porn desensitizes us and numbs our brain and yet so many people will defend it because they see it as a sign of liberation.

There needs to be a balance and people have to recognize when they are being told how to be. Keep your fetishes to yourself and in the bedroom. I know women that wear their body count like a badge, those types are simply cheaters and whores and are just being socially controlled.

I think you're right. It just went from one extreme to the other, unfortunately for a reason most people don't care to know.

[–]StillLessons[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think you and I are thinking along the same lines.

I particularly like "Sexual liberation is essentially used as a means to politically control people into thinking that they're excercising their "freedom" by jacking off to porn."

This is also true of legalization of weed in my mind. I have no problem with legalizing weed; if alcohol is legal, weed appears no more harmful than alcohol. But motivation matters. Why are they offering this freedom? I would argue it's the same reason. People feel they are "free" because they can smoke weed, when actually TPTB see it as a wonderful distraction so people will lose themselves in unproductive freedoms like this instead of asking why the world surrounding their weed-induced bubble is closing in on them daily.

[–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"A man has as many masters as he has vices."