Thank you Becca Today at Mass I preached on the book 50 Shades of Grey, and about pornography and divorce and the assault on marriage and the Chic Fil A situation and contraception. I’m sure that the mostly elder citizens wondered why they were hearing such. I told them we all have a part in reversing what is happening: protest to Walmart where the book is prominently displayed and where kids of any age and of rampant curiousity can thumb through it. Don’t worry about changing the world. Change where we are. Change who we are.
The Revolt Against Contraception
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Friday, July 27, 2012 9:00 AM
To round out a week of NFP Awareness, I wanted to give the final word to 1flesh.org.
That’s the website run by college students unapologetic about their opposition to contraception and hoping to—their words—“bring sexy back:”
If anything can be said of our generation, it’s this: We want sexy back. Our parent’s generation, well, they lost it. They delivered to us a world with sky-high rates of divorce, abortion, and STDs; a world bored with sex and bored with romance; a world in which more and more people are turning to pornography to find sexual satisfaction; a world in which 1 in 5 women report being sexual assaulted, and the human body — the sexiest thing in the universe — is used to sell cars.
Yesterday I cited Mary Eberstadt’s documentation of evidence adults like to ignore. But these kids (college kids) are not only not ignoring it, they’re embracing it full stop.
After extremely little consideration, we decided we don’t want that. We want awesome marriages and mind-blowing sex lives. We want women and men to be respected and loved for who they are, to the very depths of their being. We want sex free from fear, love free from use, and a world of people who love and respect their own bodies. In short, we want sexy back. In fact, we demand it.
Click over to find a host of engaging arguments on their “consider” page.
What’s heartening is that their approach seems to reach beyond “the choir.” See for example their excellent “interview” (can a blog grant an interview?) with the pro-choice blog Amplify>.
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