Isn’t Anything Obscene Anymore?
by Obscenity is no longer limited to washrooms and tunnels; our society is experiencing a new attitude toward freedom that tends to permit almost any word or action. Four letter words, nudity, sexuality, erotic films – all are vying for public acceptance.
Our moral consciousness should argue that wrong is wrong no matter how old you are. We should see a horrible inconsistency in the values that the world places on “sexual honesty” and “freedom”. We need to be aware that the present trends toward moral laxity and looser laws will make it easier for the peddlers of obscene material to make it available to more and more people, including young people and even children. Young people are going to have to face inevitable trends toward more explicitness in films, more freedom in magazines, and more perverted sex on television.
“They say they are wise, but they are fools; instead of worshipping the immortal God, they worship images made to look like mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles. Because men are fools, God has given them over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other. They exchange the truth about God for a lie; they worship and serve what God has created instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised for ever! Amen. Because of what men do, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts. In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they receive in themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.”
(Romans 1:22-27)
What will your reaction be to the current obscenity and pornography so prevalent in today’s society? Will you simply become so hardened to it and merely accept as the standards of today? Will you refrain from protest for fear you might be considered a prude? Are you going to permit yourself to become inundated by portrayals of life that you loose yourself?
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Post CommentPinkpuff
On July 21, 2009 at 7:47 am
It does indeed seem as though nudity and sex are becoming more socially acceptable. What I’m confused about though, is why you seem to think that is a bad thing.
Your article seems to implicitly take for granted that there is something fundamentally immoral about sex and/or nudity. If that is indeed your position, why do you think that?
If anything, I think society’s current attitude towards nudity is not liberal enough. People’s bodies are seen as something shameful that needs to be covered up and so as a result you have people who are extremely self-conscious and obsessed about their appearance. If people were less obsessed with hiding their bodies they would see that most people are not supermodels and that there is beauty in everyone that transcends the physical appearance.
As for sex, there is no greater, more beautiful physical expression of love between two people. Due to its intimate nature, of course most people wish to express their love in private. However, there are many that do not mind being observed and there is nothing wrong with that. What’s wrong is when one party is taking advantage of the other. Then the act becomes not one of love but one of exploitation of another person. That is as wrong as any other form of violence or exploitation and no one needs or should want to see that; but if the act is indeed one of love then I see no reason to censor that, even from children.