Certainly there is not enough love in the world. We were made for loving, and yet have built societies, religions, and economic systems that suppress, oppress, and repress love. That needs fixing.
But how can I say there is not enough sex? Isn't this the 25 hour a day sex society? Wasn't there a sexual revolution? How much is enough, and how much is too much?
Those sound like reasonable questions. But I don't think they are.
I believe we were made for sex, just as much as we were made for love. We could have sex in the broadest sense (including all forms of acting in a sexual context) nearly every hour of every day. At yet, it's more like an hour a week, or an hour a month, or a few times in a lifetime. If there is a sex we are bombarded with, it is the commercial kind, which is commercial first and sexual last. The fact that it still works is proof of how we crave so much more.
Technology has removed the chains that bonded sex to costly reproduction. But the drive for sex is rarely allowed to be satisfied directly anyway. And even those chains were greatly exaggerated. The majority of potential sexual activities were never constrained by those concerns.
As far as I can see (and I lived through it), the sexual revolution never happened. Briefly, the availability of contraception was celebrated in media and mythology. Then the old forces of suppression, repression, and oppression swiftly and in some cases cleverly reasserted themselves. The sexual counterrevolution was so swift and so successful that sex of the loving kind is even more rare today than it was before the sexual revolution.
But how can I say there is not enough sex? Isn't this the 25 hour a day sex society? Wasn't there a sexual revolution? How much is enough, and how much is too much?
Those sound like reasonable questions. But I don't think they are.
I believe we were made for sex, just as much as we were made for love. We could have sex in the broadest sense (including all forms of acting in a sexual context) nearly every hour of every day. At yet, it's more like an hour a week, or an hour a month, or a few times in a lifetime. If there is a sex we are bombarded with, it is the commercial kind, which is commercial first and sexual last. The fact that it still works is proof of how we crave so much more.
Technology has removed the chains that bonded sex to costly reproduction. But the drive for sex is rarely allowed to be satisfied directly anyway. And even those chains were greatly exaggerated. The majority of potential sexual activities were never constrained by those concerns.
As far as I can see (and I lived through it), the sexual revolution never happened. Briefly, the availability of contraception was celebrated in media and mythology. Then the old forces of suppression, repression, and oppression swiftly and in some cases cleverly reasserted themselves. The sexual counterrevolution was so swift and so successful that sex of the loving kind is even more rare today than it was before the sexual revolution.
