Bed and Bored

Carl Trueman pens a worthy response to a vapid article:

“If it is good for me, it must be good for society” is dangerous enough as a principle of social ethics. To replace that with “If it cures my boredom, it must be good for society” is lunacy. And who will pay the interest—financial and social—on this sexual ponzi scheme? Everyone, from the poor and the children of broken homes to generations yet unborn.

The other disturbing element is the reductionist view of freedom. The rhetoric of liberation pervades the article from the title onwards, and yet in what does this woman’s freedom consist? Her freedom and thus her personhood have been reduced to nothing more than the ability to have a series of loosely connected orgasms, unencumbered by any relational responsibility, as a means of punctuating the tedium of life.

(source: Freedom Is . . . a Sexual Ponzi Scheme? | Carl R. Trueman | First Things)

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