"rebelling against a culture of porn"

[anepicpoet]

Which is the greater oppression -- sexual virtue imposed by the patriarchy, or sexual libertinism imposed by the matriarchy?"Today, the sexualization of girls begins in infancy with 12-month sized rompers announcing, "I'm too sexy for my diaper." At age four, it's The Bratz Babyz, singing 'You've gotta look hotter than hot! Show what you've got

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[anepicpoet]

Thank you very much. I may not have time to read this for a couple days, but skimming the first few paragraphs has made me very excited.

I have been meaning to ask, can you recommend any quality online Islamic news sources?

[anepicpoet]

I accidentally posted this comment as a friend who was logged on at my computer. I apologize.

I meant news from a Muslim perspective, though I hope that would include news about Islam.

Do you have a source for that Chesterton quote? Perhaps I will read whatever book it is from soon.

I am reminded of a similar observation from Cardinal Ratzinger, "For if one were to agree completely on regarding all the different confessions simply as traditions, then one would have cut oneself loose from the question of truth, and theology would now be a merely a form of diplomacy, of politics. Our quarreling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God."

[anepicpoet]

I agree. It's bizarre how it is now not just abnormal to value chastity, but often considered downright offensive. I've seen people literally get mad at others for not wanting to have sex. It's no simply, "I don't understand your choice," but, "how dare you not want to have sex!" I believe it is the same with any sort of resistance against this push in our culture. Usually when people learn that I do not drink they politely ask something like, "Oh... interesting. Why not?" but I have received, "What the hell is you problem, asshole?" several times too. I'm guessing you have received similar angry responses on occasion.

This anger is very telling. The society of free choice is very often not about preserving personal liberty so much as using the rhetoric of personal liberty to cover up decadence.

My friend, let us live not in angry confrontation with the world, but as a blessed sign of contradiction against it.

[anepicpoet]

Obviously chastity is not new. It was more or less the norm for the majority of human experience. Neither is rebelling against one's parents or authority (though I think this is more the norm now than it ever was in history, that we are a ridiculously fastly changing culture because we accept rebellion as the norm) What is new is young girls in America using supposedly patriarchal values as the basis for a new sexual revolution, or a sexual counter-revolution if you will. The fact that people have rebelled against things before and that people have been chaste before does not make this not a new movement.

This is a conflict that has to do with people making assumptions and/or judging other people and not specifically with some sort of sexuality conflict.I don't know if I can agree with that. On the one hand it is certainly psychologically true. People who are "sexually liberated" and people who are chaste certainly have such a reaction to each other and protect themselves by judging lifestyles that threaten their own. But that does