d9930380 said:
STDs certainly made me VERY apprecensive - still do, they haven't went away. But this generation didn't grow up with the Aids scare that was greatly blown out of proportion in the 90s (for heteriosexuals) with all the scare ads ect - therefore with that and media sex has become very common. It's the reason why people aren't getting married now.
All in all I'm not sure if it's a good thing because I think a healthy society is based on a strong family unit - with unmarried parents and divorce, kids are feeling abandened and are displaying that with a **** you attitude to everyone else. This is a timebomb waiting to go off - if it hasn't already.
I hate to say it but with the greater promisciousness of women it's made me very reluctant to even think about marriage because the girls seems less special than I would have hoped for and therefore not worth marrying and giving up my independance and abiliy to **** younger girls as I get older. All wome seem more like FBs now rather than something deeper. Maybe it's just me though.
A healthy society is based on a strong family unit, a society, but this same society is also shafting the family unit, it is not aids of std's or sex that as crippled the family unit, it is the law and the power that as been given to the emotional creature called WOMEN.
WOMEN initiate 90% of all divorces and alot later regret choice, i am starting to wonder if women base there ideals on divorce around what they falt at that given month, without thinking logically about the impact of it.
Women not men inititate 90% of all divorces or you better believe its over 50% anyway.
Now sexual liberation as been something that as been more then expressed in many ages and cultures some of the BEST marriages and relationships are actually proven to come from places where they dont have sexual hangups and inhibitions! Sex is not the cause of marriage problems and the family unit is a factor for a certain social order, but it is this society that as messed up the family unit.
here is why:
This society is founded on matirialist values, it is a built on i must 'buy', every time we step in the street, we turn on the tv we are bombarded with media and advertising to buy to consume and sadly the way i see things the average women is a consumer's dream come true.
the average women loves the consumer life-style and buys into it hook line and stinker, wanting to keep up with the celebritires wanting the fine trapping of what THIS society can offer and they expect a man to slot into that mould of consume life style. Not all but most do.
Now the problem is women have been given alot of power and earn the same as men these days, even though the feminsts will make you think they are still the victims, anyway tradition values e.t.c still expect them women to marry or shack up with a guy that can support them, but the clincher is the more a women earns the more her value of support is, or the price of suport for her, this is the average consumer ideal coming out.
So society plays a pivotal role in the over all break down of marriage as more and more people jack into consumer land and the women expect after they are living the ameriance/western dream of buy buy buy they want a man that can support there ideals of what is right based on what the coke advert is telling them.
Sex as nothing to do with it, in truth and sex as been repressed by this society only glamorizes it and by making something that is natural taboo, makes the act something dangerouse exciting and glorifies it rather then treating as just simply sex.
More and more people including women are opening there eyes and seeing the buy buy now ideal is an empty dream and though some are happy, the 9 to 5 grind to keep up with the jonses is not what it was spun to be and can actually leed to a very boring shi* consumer life-style!
Sex is not the problem it is the values that have been spun that is the issue.
This normally is in the form of girl power, women liberation and power for women! Power from what exactly should be the reply, since they still want the consumer life-style but they also want to be looked after also.
And as long as Brittney e.t.c and other celebrities illustrate it is ok to set bad examples to women then the flock will simply follow.
marriage is not long what it was it is simply another means in the courtship faze for alot of women and now benig divorced as actually become fashionable.