At the risk of being a voice of the Biblical world view, let me say that sexual promiscuity has been a part of the world since the first generations after Adam and Eve. While it has always been popular, it has always been unacceptable behavior and a profaning of what God designed our sex drive for. Sadly, in our "enlightened" modern society, the rampant growth of Secular Humanism, and the ever-growing attitude that if something becomes widespread enough it will simply take over as being the new "norm", we've created a world of "Relative Good and Relative Evil".
When gutteral discussions of conquests, etc., use to be kept in hushed voices and darkened rooms, such socially destructive and potentially deadly behaviors were at least kept in reasonable check. However, as magazines, movies, and television have been allowed to say more and more reprehensible things and show more and more provocative, suggestive, and destructive things, all to younger and younger audiences (largely while irresponsible parents watch right with them) we've made this all more "open" as one poster put it. Once you make things more "open" you make them more palatable. When they are more palatable they are less objectionable. Then you eventually get to a point where common decency isn't common, and what was rude, disgusting, immoral behavior to our grandparents is now perfectly acceptable in our President. Wow, how far we've progressed. And what a wonderful world we've created.
What I'm saying is, that little girls are growing up watching not only a plethora of immoral behavior (by both men and women) being shown as models of behavior, but they're seeing their parents model it, too. It was bad enough when pre-teen boys were sneaking around a copy of some irresponsible adult's Playboy and getting oversexed at that age. Now we have girls in the same boat, preferring to dress as the likes of Brittany or Christina. Anyone who's in touch with the younger kids is aware that little girls are getting very aggressive---it's not as uncommon as you think to hear of a little girl shoving her hand down the pants of some boy. Why? It's what they're being shown. It's what their big sisters are demonstrating and big brothers are bragging about.
Instead of demanding that the immorality of young boys be brought to task and corrected, we've allowed, with the aid of popular women's magazines, girls to lower themselves to the degenerate level of the boys. And we call that advancing the cause of women? At what sacrifice? I applaud any woman who stands up to the onslaught of media that justifies behavior that condones or encourages lowering of their decency, all under the fallacy of making them equal to men. I say, "Why do you WANT to be equal to the lowest common denominator?"
My wife and I are friends with a couple who has a 10 year old boy, an 8 year old girl and a one year old boy. And it's amazing the questions and conversations we all get into with the two older kids, particularly the boy. He's just now getting caught up in what peer pressure is like, and he's being faced with the challenges of being a Christian (a real one, not one just throws that moniker up when it's convenient) in a Secular Humanist society. We are constantly wrestling with how to explain in terms that make sense to him what behaviors are considered holy and acceptable and why---not just saying "because God says so". And the little girl is coming up on the heels of that. We have to make certain the boy understands there's a code of behavior LOFTIER than most of his "peers" and that he has the particular responsibility to exemplify that for his little sister. She needs to know that her older brother, as well as her father, model what is correct male behavior. Just as her mother demonstrates behaviors that a lady exhibits. Understanding that the two can be---are demanded by God to be--equal without compromising that which is holy and moral. Success, acceptance, etc. are not mutually exclusive to being moral and proper. But when we give kudos to such things as "presidential behavior" rather than express true moral outrage and denouncement, or glorify promiscuity with such shows as "Sex and the City", what else are children, of either gender, expected to believe?
Dharmagrl, thank you for being a voice of sanity. You are awesome.
