God said to Adam and Eve,
“You guys have it pretty good, the whole world is at your disposal (except for
that apple thing), you are free to come and go, sleep as long as you want, dress
or not dress as you wish, but that is not really why I made you. I have a master
plan and here it is. I didn’t spend seven days creating all of this to have it
end with you. So, I have in mind something called children. Those will be little yous, and they will contain all of
your knowledge plus what ever knowledge they can pick up, thus multiplying the
world’s knowledge, base. They will then have children (that you can visit,
spoil, and later go home) who will again add knowledge. Get the idea, pretty neat,
eh?”
Adam and Eve weren’t born
yesterday (wait, actually they were) but they could see that they had a good
gig going so they wondered aloud how having to watch over some untrained, undisciplined
poop factories would be of any benefit to them. God saw their point, so he said, “I realize I’m
asking you to take on a tough assignment, and the best I can do to get this
process going and for you to willingly create these people I call children, I
will provide for you the most pleasurable act, both physically and emotionally,
a human can experience. But, you must use it wisely. I have designed this act
(I’ll tell you later what it is. You’re not going to believe it!) primarily to
produce children to keep the human race “stocked” with new folks. But, if after
a couple of appletinis you and Eve as a special couple wish to use “it” to
reconfirm your love for and commitment to each other, I’m good with that.”
OK, maybe that’s not exactly
how it happened, but you get the idea. Sex has a specific place in human
nature.
The government’s latest
policy of allowing girls age 15 and over to get the morning-after pill, providing
condoms like candy and taking the parents ever so surely out of the sexual
aspects of their children’s lives, all with the demented logic that “They are
going to have sex anyway, let’s just accept and prepare for it.” It may just be my age, but I’m sorry I just
don’t buy it.
Every action has a
consequence, and that consequence informs us if we want, or don’t want, to do
that action again. That’s what moves us forward and ultimately determines who
we are. I find more and more that we, as
a society, try to remove the natural consequence of an action if that
consequence is unpleasant. Heaven forbid we should have any unpleasantness in
our lives. Sex is very pleasurable when
done for all the right reasons (and truthfully, all the wrong reasons also),
but it can produce negative consequences, e.g. unwanted pregnancies, STDs and
strained or broken relationships. It seems we spend an inordinate amount of our
time trying to obtain the positive and artificially eliminating the negative.
Abstinence completely
eliminates the negatives of sex. It is 100% foolproof, but that would mean in order to not bring
unwanted children in to the world, to not have or give life long medical
problems, or to not break the heart of another human being, a person would have
to give up momentary pleasure until all the right pieces are in place. Thus the
rub! Our society has declared, through its actions, that we are humanly
incapable of that degree of self-control, so abstinence is completely off the
table as a form of “birth control.” Any speaker going to a school today and
preaching abstinence (as if they would ever be invited) is viewed as some out-of-
touch religious kook worthy of the maximum dose of ridicule.
I am not naive enough to
believe that many people today will practice the lost art of abstinence, but I
am disappointed that society has so given up on its young. Society has given up
on teaching them the realities of action and consequences, the reality that
life is not fair and equal, and the truth that just because they can do something
doesn’t mean they should.
Shouldn’t abstinence at least
be considered an option? Should we throw our hands in the air (or our pants to
the ground) and just give up?
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