Is "love" limited to "sex" in today's society?
What has caused something so good to turn so vile is still a mystery to me.
Those of you who arrived here because the title included the word “sex” please bear with me. This is a dialogue that I believe has to take place, but I can’t hear you, so please pay attention to what I’m saying and shout at me afterwards. Sexuality seems to be overvalued in our culture nowadays. While I understand that it is the natural method for all animals to reproduce, I believe that the way our media and society glorify it has exaggerated the significance of this process.
That we have gotten numb to it is the most serious problem. The mainstream media figured out a long time ago that “sex sells,” which means that we are assaulted with items and situations that appeal to our libido, regardless of our orientation, just about wherever we look, from movies to magazine advertisements to television commercials. When commercials show us their goods on display next to painted and manipulated pinnacles of humanity, they are luring us into believing things that are just impossible will happen to us if we drink, drive, or smell like this.
In turn, this has an impact on how our culture perceives sex, with movies ranging from hinted relationships to full frontal acrobatics, to its casual mention in a variety of contexts. This is something that should be kept private and personal, not broadcasted over all conceivable social networking sites in the search of likes and comments. However, despite people’s eagerness to divulge information, there is still so much shame associated with sex that it seems to negate everything I’ve just stated. Even while people want specifics and sexual pleasure, for some reason, guilt accompanies sex wherever it goes. Affairs and online pornography are making things more and more confusing, and even marriages are no longer considered sacrosanct anymore.
What matters is that sex has been more commercialized in our culture, no matter which way you look at it. As a result of the billion-dollar profits made by porn and other unlawful sexual services, as well as blockbusters including the aforementioned scenes, sex is no longer considered sacrosanct, but rather an entertainment medium instead. Still, youngsters will pretend to hide their eyes if one of those moments appears while they are viewing with their parents, and people will attempt (and fail terribly) to delete their browser history because they do not want others to think they are perverts or anything like that. While it seems that sex is an important part of our society, there is still a sense of shame about it.
Perhaps the only way to alleviate this numbness and return sex to its proper, if not overly exalted, position in our society is to treat it with the decency that it so richly merits. While being with your spouse is a fantastic and lovely experience, attempting to share it with anybody else will only make the situation worse.
What you’re talking about is something very personal, and it shouldn’t be shared with anybody else save the two of you. Almost all sex scenes in films and television may be classified as “unnecessary,” and this is true even for the most popular genres. Before excessive sex scenes were popular at the box office, movies had to depend on solid stories and performances rather than sexual symbolism. Before they understood that they could just show some flesh, pull some faces, and sell out in seconds, commercials and advertisements had to be intelligent and entertaining, appealing directly to their target demographic.
There will always be some sense of guilt associated with using sex as a quick fix and a filler in our culture, as well as enormous companies that refuse to allow sex to be treated as a holy practice.
It’s true that love is much greater than you. It is possible to encourage love, but it is not possible to control how, when, and where love manifests itself.
As a reward, love cannot be activated. In addition, it is not deactivated as a penalty.
Marriages, whether planned or not, may have nothing to do with the feelings of the couple involved in them.
Loving someone is like a natural force. However much we may want to, we will never be able to command, demand, or remove love, any more than we will be able to force the moon, stars, wind, and rain to come and leave according to our whims and fancies. The fact that humans have some limited capacity to affect the weather is that we do so at the risk of disrupting an ecological balance that we do not completely comprehend. The same is true for courtships and seductions; however, the outcome is more likely to be infatuation or two illusions dancing together than than true love in these situations and situations.
It’s true that love is much greater than you. It is possible to encourage love, but it is not possible to control how, when, and where love manifests itself. However, love will hit you like lightning, unpredictably and irrefutably no matter what you choose to do in response to it. It is possible to fall in love with somebody that you do not really like for. No terms, restrictions, stipulations, addenda, or codes accompany love. Just as the sun shines regardless of our worries and wants, so does love radiate without us.
By its nature, love is gratuitous. It is not available for purchase, sale, or exchange. Someone’s love can’t be forced, and it can’t be prevented, no matter how much money you throw at the situation. Both love and law are incapable of being imprisoned or regulated. A love-based substance, a commodity, or even a commercial power source is not what we are talking about here. In the absence of a territorial or national boundary, or any quantitative mass or energy production, love is just love.
Sex partners and marriage partners are available for purchase. There are regulations and courts, as well as property rights, involved in marriage. Alimony and the pre-nuptial agreement have made it plain that marriage is a business transaction, much as the marriage price, or dowry, has done in the past. Nevertheless, as we all know, many marriages, whether they are planned or not, are based on a lack of genuine love.
Sexual stimulation and fulfillment, whether delivered via the use of fingers, tongues, objects, fantasy play, whips and chains, or just through simple intercourse, may surely be purchased and sold, not to mention utilized to promote other items. Although the subject of whether sex should be available for purchase is debatable, love cannot be purchased.
Loyalty, friendship, attention, and possibly even compassion can be purchased, but love itself cannot be bought or exchanged for money. Love, on the other hand, cannot be purchased. It happens by grace, of its own free will and in the course of its own time, with no interference from humans.
As a reward, love cannot be activated. It is not possible to turn it off as a kind of discipline. Only something else appearing to be love may be used as a lure, as a hook, for bait and switch, copied, insinuated, but the actual thing can never be provided if it does not flow freely from the heart of the one who is seeking it.
The fact that love exists does not imply that destructive and abusive practices are tolerated. When there is injustice, love speaks up and protests when there is damage done to another person or animal. The repercussions of injuring oneself or others are brought to light through love for one another. Anger, sadness, and anguish are all allowed to be expressed and released in the presence of unconditional love. If it doesn’t obtain what it wants, love does not threaten to withdraw itself from the recipient.
“If you’re a terrible boy, Mommy won’t love you anymore,” love never says, either directly or indirectly. “Daddy’s little daughter doesn’t do that,” says love, not the other way around. When it comes to love, it doesn’t say things like “Be kind if you want to be loved,” “Do what I want,” “Never love anyone else,” or “Promise you’ll never leave me.” It doesn’t say things like “Do what I want,” “Never love anyone else,” or “Never promise you’ll never leave me,” either.
We all have a stake in what happens to us, and love is concerned about what happens to you. Love is innately sympathetic and sensitive by its own definition. “The other” is also one’s own self, and love recognizes this fact. As a result, love itself cannot be managed or repressed since it is of its very essence. When you love someone, you respect their individuality.
Loving oneself is a rule unto itself.
With permission from the publisher, an excerpt from Deborah Anapol’s book, The Seven Natural Laws of Love, is presented here. It is protected by intellectual property laws. All intellectual property rights are protected by law. To get permission to reproduce, distribute, or republish material, please contact the author directly.
In today’s society, sexuality is a taboo subject to talk about.
Was it for the purpose of changing attitudes, or was it just for show?
In a recent ad, a woman is seen avidly dreaming about two guys arriving to her front door in the pornographic moved reverence of promiscuity, which is shown in the commercial. And what is it that these advertising pros are trying to sell with lust? Drain cleaning in the form of a liquid Bah!!!! It was diametrically opposed to what was being sold at the time. It is not uncommon to see adverts like this. However, we are not here to debate the substance of these advertising, but rather something more delicate in this situation.
The significance of sex has been diminished in today’s culture. Today’s culture places a high value on sexuality; everything from television and radio to video games, music, and the Internet all utilize sex to help market their wares to the public. We shouldn’t be surprised if the media broadcasts the most terrible excuse for entertainment, with us stupid and impressionable young people expected to snort and laugh.
A Lot of Contradiction in Sex and Society –
When compared to today’s terrible onslaught of graphic pictures aimed at children, the sexual liberation acquired in the 1960s has nothing in common with it. When you look at the photographs now, the miniskirt seems to be quite innocent, yet some individuals found it to be insulting. Because they believed that such attire may jeopardize the morality of the country, many people were frightened and protested. Individuals’ desire is arouse and they are propelled towards sleazy sexual activity as a result of it.
Today’s Date Has Sex In It
In response to additional in-depth questions about this topic, individuals have provided a variety of opinions and observations. Adultery is still considered wrong by some. “Divorce” is a tragedy in the eyes of this group of individuals. Modern civilization, on the other hand, is different – people interpret things in a variety of ways. Quite a few individuals refer to the action of “divorce” that we are talking here as “sexual liberty.”
Losing one’s virginity during one’s adolescent years is considered harmless by this group. As long as there is no guilt feeling or so-called discomfort between the spouses, having affairs and hooking up are acceptable behaviors. It is entirely “Okay” and normal to be in this state of affairs. Due to our society’s acceptance of divorce as a lifestyle choice that is more or less usual, divorce is today considered ethically acceptable.
When it comes to sexual revolution, there are many different perspectives.
Despite the fact that we have been exposed to more sexually explicit media in recent years, it seems that this is something that our generation has become used to.
Rather of being provided with anything more substantial than going to the dentist for a cleaning, sexuality is thrust in our faces. It is essential to agree on a medium ground and learn to appreciate ourselves and our bodies before participating in a hook-up culture in today’s time since having sex is more significant nowadays.
Have we gone too far with the sexual revolution? Is it possible that we have moved on from seeing ourselves as just sexual objects? Wasn’t the whole point of the sexual revolution to provide us with more options to choose from? We have both physical and emotional repercussions for the things we do to our bodies, especially when we are young.
Being able to see sexual content on TV was like watching “pigs fly.” This simply did not occur, although it has been suggested that it may have occurred. When we discount sex, we lose what is most important in our lives — LOVE. When we depreciate sex, we devalue ourselves. When it comes to taking a deep dump that we may later regret, we must first respect ourselves and take the time to consider our actions.
