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So says Jennifer Roback Morse, senior fellow in economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty and author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World. Her book argues that life-long married love is more appealing and fulfilling than casual sex. In an interview, she was asked why she thinks marriage is in crisis.
The marriage crisis is really a sex crisis. The modern world completely misunderstands the meaning of human sexuality. In spite of all our sex education and overtly sexual entertainment, we don't really understand what sex is all about.We have the idea that sex is a private recreational activity, with no moral or social significance. If that's true, our sex partner becomes a commodity that may or may not please us. And in a consumer society, when we are no longer satisfied with a product, we get rid of it. I call this Consumer Sex.
The basic problem with Consumer Sex is that no one wants to be treated like an object. No matter how much we enjoy our casual sex while we're doing it, the truth is that no one, male or female, wants to be on the receiving end of being discarded. All the problems and disappointments that people experience in their college coed dorms and in dating can be traced to this one point.
We have created a culture in which it is socially acceptable to use people.
This is very similar to what the pope was saying just two days ago.
Benedict attacked the thing-infliction of mankind, suggesting that people had become little more than objects to be traded, picked up and discarded at will.
