Upon understanding more thoroughly how messed up our culture is about food through studying the vice of Gluttony, I realized more thoroughly how messed up our culture is about sex through studying the vice of lust. The two vices are very similar, in fact, as they both have many ways to go wrong. Both sex and food are very good things if approached in the right way.
They also share that they are both extremely commercialized and appeal to our primal and base desires.
DeYoung wonders why there is a "taboo" on sex?
I wonder why there is not.
Anymore, sex is so advertised and so talked about, that it is impossible to go anywhere or do anything (just about) without being bombarded by some sort of sex appeal.
This is what I found during the discipline for Lust - I could not go ANYWHERE without somehow experiencing some kind of commercialized sex.
DeYoung almost criticizes Christians for treating sex as if it were our culture's main problem.
She is right - it is not our culture's root problem.
Yet she also accounts for the flip side- our culture's view of sex is messed up, and therefore destructive. The culture's view of sex singles out individual sexual pleasure as the main goal of sex, when it is so much more, especially to someone of the Christian faith.
But back to the sex "taboo."
President Obama has recently endorsed "sex education" for kindergartners.
This seems to be the current line of thought in public education. And they wonder why 12-year-olds get pregnant.
Pregnancy is treated as a disease - a nasty side-effect of sex - kind of like diabetes is to food, except that diabetes is actually bad.
Terrible food is portrayed as good in our culture, and diabetes is the nasty side-effect. Fornication is portrayed as good in our culture, and unmarried pregnancies and STDs are the nasty side effects. It is interesting that diabetes, out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and STDs are not a problem when you approach food and sex the right way.
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