Sexuality

An excerpt from an article written by Anonymous which appeared yesterday in National Review Online:

Imagine a drug so powerful it can destroy a family simply by distorting a man’s perception of his wife. Picture an addiction so lethal it has the potential to render an entire generation incapable of forming lasting marriages and so widespread that it produces more annual revenue — $97 billion worldwide in 2006 — than all of the leading technology companies combined. Consider a narcotic so insidious that it evades serious scientific study and legislative action for decades, thriving instead under the ever-expanding banner of the First Amendment.

According to an online statistics firm, an estimated 40 million people use this drug on a regular basis. It doesn’t come in pill form. It can’t be smoked, injected, or snorted. And yet neurological data suggest its effects on the brain are strikingly similar to those of synthetic drugs. Indeed, two authorities on the neurochemistry of addiction, Harvey Milkman and Stanley Sunderwirth, claim it is the ability of this drug to influence all three pleasure systems in the brain — arousal, satiation, and fantasy — that makes it “the pièce de résistance among the addictions.”

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Here at Seed, we have been thinking a lot about sex, and in the process, we have become frustrated. Why?  Because discussions about sex veer off in so many directions, too many to cover in one evening or even one semester.  Pornography.  Dating and courtship.  Modesty in dress and behavior. Dealing with sexual temptation. Premarital sex, hooking up and live-in relationships. Homosexuality. The list goes on and on.

As the semester marches forward, it is becoming very difficult to make sense of it all.  Realistically, there is no way that we are going to synthesize everything into a series of articles on well-defined topics.  The time has come to just put some words down and launch them into cyberspace. Let me begin this process by sharing a few random thoughts, arranged in no particular order.  These first random thoughts are about pornography.

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