A break from my vain attempts at theology
and for something more interesting – at least for me.
The culture in North America is kind of
strange when it comes to sex. I know
other cultures are sort of off as well, but it is this culture in which I live
and can easily see the strangeness.
I was listening to a Sunday afternoon talk
show on the radio and the topic of discussion was the challenges of Viagra and
other erectile dysfunction medication.
One of the challenges is that there is a lag time between taking the
medication and it having the desired effect.
Think about that for a moment.
You have a naked partner willing to engage
in sex with you and the challenge is to fill thirty minutes of time while the
medication kicks in, and you are at a loss of what to do....hmm. Maybe what is needed is a shift in how one
views sex, not a medication.
Just sayin...
Not surprisingly in this world of let’s not
slow down and enjoy ourselves, they have come up with a medication to enhance a
woman’s libido. Now I have not heard the
marketing for this medication, but I have heard a sexpert discuss it. Her suggestion is that by increasing the
libido of the woman she is more inclined to have sex with her husband and thus
keep the man from straying.
I am thinking that if the man takes his Viagra
and goes to...umm...work....by the time his medication kicks in, she won’t need
any.
Now there are legitimate reasons – health based
– where both of these medications are required.
But I can’t help thinking that our dependency on medications for
everyday events reveals that we are living crazy lives. I know I do.
But back to the idea of it being the woman’s
role to keep the man faithful.
I can’t help but think in that one comment we
have been set back a few decades. That
comment is only a stone’s throw away from legitimizing rape. I am not sure what the twisted logic is that
it is up to the woman to ensure that the man is faithful; but I don’t like it. The other side of this kind of thinking
ensures that men do not have to mature and assume responsibility for
ourselves.
The other random thought comes from the
quagmire we call Facebook. The most
accurate quote from this social networking site is “The internet allows us to
be whoever and whatever we want to be, why do so many people choose to be
stupid?”
But that is not what caught my attention
this week. It was a contact of mine
posting a slogan – I love being white.
The comment stunned me. The
person attached to this made the comment, “In this day of gay pride, native
pride, black pride and the like, I have decided that I am proud to be white.”
There was the hesitation from the
associated “White Power” groups, which may have ruined this concept for me
forever. I can get behind the “Kiss me I
am (Insert Ethnicity)” but “I love being white” is kind of hard to support.
I offer no biblical references for the
above – simply a mind trying to avoid thinking about more serious matters.
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