The State Of Things
I just read a novel about a young widow who is learning how to deal with grief. It was a fairly-well told tale.
After nine months of being alone, she meets a guy and they start dating. This guy is the book's "hero," I guess you'd say. Well, on the fourth date, they have sex. And this is treated as a normal, healthy thing. It's just what she needs. It's a sign that she is growing, overcoming.
How did we get here? It's no longer even a question of waiting until marriage -- it's just a question of making sure you learn your lover's name first.
Fourth-date sex is responsible? It shows character and restraint? Wow, they didn't rush in. They waited until the fourth date -- and she had a whole nine months of celibacy following the death of her husband. What a great fairy tale.
And I guess that would be the world's point -- that to expect higher standards, in this day and age, is a fairy tale. Biblical morality is a fairy tale.
What a sad state of affairs.
posted by Bobby @ 3:00 PM
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2 Comments:
Being on this side of the Fence Bobby those ight not have been the best words for you to say.....yet however that is how much of the world goes these days. It's all about self relian safetey....4 dates, hah I have heard some had no kisses till the 4th or 5th dates but not sex.
Then again it's no wander...you can run from sex, well no you can't it's everywhere. No matter how many dates one has sex still comes up for folks. Yes the morality has shifted over the last few decades.
The lies we buy into---even as children of God---are numerous and destructive. I think the area in which we most forfeit any hope of true satisfaction and joy is in the area of our sexuality. Which is so sad because we don't even realize how much destruction we both cause and allow until it is too late.
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