Is it not true that the western society is on the brink of destruction because of it,s " FREE SEX POLICY'?
336808
Western society couldn't be better. What do you suppose the western society should do take all the little girls at around age 5 and mutilate them and sew them up like middle eastern countries do and then sell them for a profit to a future husband. I think the lack of sex in other countries is what the whole problem is with all these wars. I bet if those suicide idiots were to have had a chance at a good piece of ass they wouldn't be so willing to blow them selves up. Sexual frustration is what is destroying all the middle eastern countries. I know over here we are all just fine. Stop being so uptight and get laid and then ask this question again.
231547
There are a lot of things going on here, I think.\n\nFirst off is the Judeo-Christian belief that sex (especially premarital sex) is somehow evil and corrupting(though this belief is certainly shared with other religions). There are no reasons to believe this other than religious ones. Yet, we, as a culture (Western culture) are so ashamed of sex that we've become ashamed of ourselves and do terrible things to avoid having sexual desires.\n\nSecondly, there's a belief that teaching teenagers about sex will cause them to go crazy and start humping like mad. Of course, they already are, but never mind that. It's kind of the ostrich and the sand syndrome. What people don't realize is that teaching about sex, reinforcing the positive aspects while teaching about safety, is utterly necessary. Abstinence only works on paper. And I also think that abstinence just makes one more loathesome of one's own body and natural physical desires. I mean, if we didn't have physical desires and act on them, how would our species continue?
1042558
Society's downfall has been predicted with alarming regularity since the beginning of civilization. Those "old days" were not as "good" as folks make them out to be, as brown eyed bohemian pointed out.\n\nWhile we have more ways of destroying our planet than ever, I don't think we're quite ready for "Armageddon" just yet. While the disappearance of the US middle class is a chilling development, it's not the biggest we face.\n\nClimate changes prompted by global warming will make it tougher for BILLIONS of people to have any quality of life at all. People (especially in the wealthier nations like US and Europe) will have to get politically active locally and nationally to get their leaders to follow the proper course. Just as important, we will need to network on an informal basis with our counterparts in other countries. Keep on the good foot. Cincypix.
443274
it isn't.  the country isn't split 50/50 over pedophilia, it isn't split over vigilante killing, it isn't split evenly over whether line-cutting at the supermarket is acceptable.  \n\nwhat you are talking about is the prominence given to issues that are undecided.  the simple reality is that individual behaviors are informed by social mores.  social mores are developed through multiple means, but in a purportedly democratic society, manifest consensus of opinion is necessary.  what you are referring to is the natural conflict of a society essaying to define the consensus on certain issues where social mores are ambiguous.  in response to the ambiguity and ambivalence, crusaders of a partisan agenda rally support for their cause in an effort to turn the tide.  as this happens on both sides in an ambiguous issue, conflict occurs.\n\nas for the definition of life issue--the force of the conflict results from the fact that many of our accepted values are actually in conflict, and this issue brings that fact into sharp relief.  it's kind of like doing a puzzle and realizing that you have a piece that cannot fit given the way the other pieces have been connected.  quite simply, averring the universal value of any biological entity expressing a particular genetic pattern does not mesh with the value placed upon creating harmony and reducing conflict within a social system (quite similar to the conflict evident around capital punishment).\n\nwhat has happened is that for thousands of years societal systems have insisted on the distinct, sancrosanct "specialness" of human beings in order to increase our survivability, and now we are beginning to learn that we are just a part of a larger system--a system whose survivability vastly exceeds our own in precedence.\nsince most individuals in our society are currently incapable of deconstructing the complex interplay of causality implicit in this theme, they mediate the conflict by relying on emotional judgments--which serves to further heighten the tension.
806120
Christianity has one impossible dilemma, the chasm between perfection and ordinary human behavior, and you can find it shaping social policy today.  Jesus was God, the rest of us are not.  For  him is was natural to be "perfect,"  it is impossible for the rest of us.  Just ask Jimmy Swaggert or Ted  Haggard.  To ask young people who are raging with hormones to abstain is only possible for someone who has this impossible pattern already firmly in mind.  To be honest, everyone in America is on one form of drug or another.  Yet, with a straight face, these same people can say to young people, or anyone else for that matter, abstain.  This is ludicrous public policy only sensible to someone who has believed in this "principle" for a long time.  Unfortunately, because it involves their faith, they cannot see that it may be suitable for belief, but not for social policy.
1093492
There should be no reaction with the amount of headlines that we have been viewing this past two years on this topic.  In the Bible, our Creator destroyed two cities because of their unnatural sex practices...shouldn't that in itself...tell you something?
959095
It's just more proof that our view of "morality" is really screwed up. If we would just get over what consenting adults do in their own bedrooms and focus more on murder, rape, theft and child molestation then we wouldn't have problems like this. It may take another 50 years before people grow up and realize sex isn't nearly as evil as we've always thought it was.
957592
Actually, the "Free Love" movement goes back to 19th century, and started as a civil libertarian movement trying to get the government and Church to not interfere with peoples private lives.  The open sexuality of the 1960s, not to mention the promiscuity, obscured the origin and goals.  As someone who grew up in the 60s I honestly don't think we were wilder than kids today, we were just getting all the media coverage because of the anti-war protests.
532851
It is nothing new.  It has being going on since time immoreal.  It effects all classes of society, all professions, all religions, the rich and the poor, the young and the old.  It is a curse.  It ruins more people's lives than any other form of abuse.  The do-gooders claim that the perverts are ill and need treatment.  They pay far more attention to them than they do to the victims.  Pedophiles are manipulative, clever and use tactics that can only be imagined.  I will not give any details but suffice is to say that they use language, threats and intimidation on their child victims.  The vast majority of men who have been indecently assaulted when young, seldom if ever tell anyone about their experience.  Most women also keep it 'secret' only informing their husbands when things go wrong much later in life.  Consequently the perverts appear to be 'getting away with it'.  I have worked in law enforcement and everytime the issue of capital punishment arrises (UK), I honestly and sincerely advocate the death penalty for anyone committing a serious sexual offence on a child under the age of ten.  I really mean it.  In my experience, and in many documented cases, they are incapable of being 'cured' of their sick and evil habits.  If an animal was to do what some of these people do to their young, they would be 'put down' immediately. Some of the true stories that I was told by young and indeed elderly people about their experiences as much as fifty years ago would make the strongest of stomachs, retch.  Teachers, doctors, judges, police officers, solicitors, and any other group of people you can imagine are preying on the young of society in every country of the world.  It is a sad, sad state of affairs when we cannot protect them.
498127
Last time I checked this was a land of freedom.\n\nI'd also like to point out that sex/nudity are completely natural, and it's our idiotic society and culture that makes these things out to be immoral and wrong.\n\nSo to answer your question, no.
90421
In India - yes, it is fair to expect that. And it will continue to remain that way for some more time to come. "Westernization" is eating into our traditions, but not at a rate fast enough that these values get forgotten in today's scenario. \n\nFor example, in the US way of things, the parents actually want their kids to leave home at some point in life (as I have deciphered based on some questions that have been posted here) so that they learn to take care of themselves at the earliest. But this is not the case in India, where parents go all the way to take care of their children right till they get into their 20s when they can take care of themselves. A lot of their lives revolves around trying to give the best formative years that a child could have. The least these children can do in this case is to reciprocate when their parents are in need. \n\nHowever, that said, the rules are not so valid for women, as it is for men. Women are, and will continute to be considered "others wealth" for quite sometime to come because of the stereotypical image attached with women.
497923
I was a kid in the 40's and 50's and it was a strong family society.  Marriage was a commitment for life.  Today, people live together and have sex before marriage, have children out of marriage, depend on the Government to take care of them, and have no strong ties with other family members.  Education is down the tubes.  Kids leave school without being able to read, write and spell; look at the "Answer" question and answers sometimes.  If we don't stop the illegal immigration we will have a group of illiterate adults who have no skills to do the technological jobs.  If we don't stop the growth of the Government, we will have more than half the people working for the other half.  Society has changed from when I was a boy and it is scary.  I think we are headed in the wrong direction socially.
251710
Thats it Control.\nThis is to fullfil need of the society. Like in the ancient kindoms in Europ when the people is to large to have sustenance he make some law to forbid s ex and the having only with the permission of the king (F ucking  U nder C onsentiment of the K ing) Remember that the catolic church is the right hand of the king and then have rules of conduct to crontol the people.\nIn modern times is much cheaper and "easy" to be moral than spend in a campaing that tell the youngs the effects of drugs,or to be carefull about AIDs or other deseases.\nThe rule saids Do not kill but not said "why".\nIn oriental ideologi because you must repect all living thing because all causes have an effect with the same intensity "but" in the inverse way.
1087225
no I dont think so\n\nmaybe morality in some areas would go down but things like rape and murder are in society's best interest to prevent and punish.\n\nYou have evidence of this in atheistic communist countries that still had laws against theft murder and rape.
1083748
yes ...tis sooo true...when we were kids...WE WERE KIDS!!!  nowadays...kids that are 10 yrs. old...are having sex..omg ..i was still playing cowboys and indians in the ditch with sticks for guns lmao....blame it all on society ...tv...with the onset of std's sexual education is no longer the parents job...the schools do that now...kids dont have to ask us anything...they learn it all from health classes.  which is good...to an extent...in anycase..yes the generations have changed...to sex crazed teens...body piercing and the likes...and what do we have to do...by societys means....accept our children for who they are....wow...i remember we could not even THINK this stuff without getting the look from mom....and we did not dare ask or try any of it...or we would get spanked...slapped...mouth washed out with soap...or knelt down in a corner for hours...ahhhh the good ole days...now if we, the parents think of spanking or slapping ...cps is knocking on our door the next day or sooner!
52509
They've been brain-washed by an anti-sex society.\nI would hope you would do the one thing you can about this:  Make up your own damn mind about it and act accordingly.
1126042
I think people are starting to feel more open and free. Losing their manners and being proper. I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed. \n\nBut if you think about it, sex is a part of our nature. We need some sort of relief whether it's by yourself or with a person, and somehow nowadays people choose to have sex as their release.\n\nIt's also based on the society.