FREE ESSAY ON TRUTH ABOUT SEX

TRUTH ABOUT SEX

Truth about sex
In the beginning, people repressed sex because they were scared of the truth around it.
The church, mainly, transformed the beautiful act of making love into a cultural taboo.
Because of its repression, sex could never have been talked about in a objective, and
truthful manner. This type of false teaching, if any teaching, of sex, led to many
disillusionments and myths concerning it. Many problems with sex that society now faces
stemmed from no education about it. It would be less than exact to say that the
pedagogical institution has imposed a ponderous silence on the sex of children and
adolescents (p.59). The repression of sex led to a perversion of it. If people could not
live out their sexual desires and fantasies, they would act them out within their minds.
I am not saying at all, that sexual desires and wants are bad. Like anything, there are
degrees of morality, even when it comes to the thoughts in one's own head. Nevertheless,
when there are no limits on one's sexual fantasies, sexuality, in my opinion, is liable
to reach a perverse and oppressive state. I hope I am correct in saying that around the
time of the seventeenth century, the society began to liberate itself from the church.
Even still, sexual liberty was small, and a non-ethical (meaning non- conservative)
discourse on sex was prohibited. This type of regard to sex was also true in the
eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century, sexual propaganda was created and fed to
the people. One memorable time period that transformed society's views on sex, was the
feminist movement in the 60's and 70's. Sexual images were allowed to be seen outside of
the privacy of one's home, even more so than before, which in my mind, is a symbol of a
new sexual freedom most people had access to. Of course the feminist movement carved the
way for women's liberty, however, I am sure there were many negative affects that also
followed. For instance, I could see how some people might have used the movement as an
opportunity to unmask the female body for outside viewing. With the starting of women
becoming more comfortable and proud of their bodies, it was accepted and understood that
women would also be viewed in a much more chauvinistic, sexist, degrading, and
animalistic manner. The acceptance of such an unequal treatment as sexism, reaffirms that
men not only will, but also have the right to, mistreat and disrespect women in whatever
way they like. I am not saying that this type of behavior and mentality did not always
exist, in fact I am sure it did, however, I feel that it was not until the 5o's and
onward that people began to openly admit to it. In the 80's the epidemic of AIDS was
discovered, as well as one of the most common methods of procreating the disease:
homosexuality. It was the climax of sexual boundaries and
taboos to be broken. The media was becoming overly fascinated with kinky sex and sex
without love, to the point that sex took on a totally new symbolism in society. As we can
now see in the 90's, sexual obscurities have increased, as well as the chances of getting
raped, and receiving a sexually transmitted disease. My generation is receiving the
outcome of past generation's sexual mistakes and unhealthy choices. In present time,
every one out of four women will get raped, while every one out of six men will get
raped. Also, the chances of receiving AIDS are more than that of getting into a car
accident. With problems like over population, rape, and sexually transmitted diseases,
alternatives to sex are needed more than ever. Personally, I will not believe that modern
society wants to stop sexism and racism until I see a change in the types of propaganda,
advertising, and choice of media, society chooses to express itself with. Some people
might say that it is the 90's and things have changed, however, I am inclined to
disagree. Everywhere one looks, perverse and vulgar sexual images fill up the
environment, in which we are supposed to feel good about living in! Sex has become the
number one campaigning device of the 90's. Sex is easily the most able to lure potential
customers under its spell, and convince them into buying another materialistic item to
sit on their shelf and collect dust. Subconscious messages concerning sex are within
every form of media available. Sexual images have been programmed so intensively in the
minds of twentieth century people, that sex has become the main focus and priority of
most everyone. I find the very essence of what sex has become immoral and sad. Younger
and future generation's minds are corrupted with negative and oppressive images of sex.
Making love, a term hardly ever used, refers to an expression of one's love for another,
while having sex, a most popular term, suggests a heartless and selfish activity, done
purposely for the arousal and satisfaction of one person. The current light which sex is
looked upon is essential to understand the transformation of sex into discourse
throughout history. Surely no other type of society has ever accumulated - and in such a
relatively short span of time - a similar quantity of discourses concerned with sex. It
may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task;
we convince ourselves that we have never said enough on the subject, that, through
inertia or submissiveness, we conceal from ourselves the blinding evidence, and that what
is essential always eludes us, so that we must always start out once again in search of
it. It is possible that where sex is concerned the most long-winged, the most impatient
of societies is our own (p.61). As I already stated, I feel the misinformation
surrounding sex led to its uncontrolled phenomenon and misuse. If children were taught
the truth about sex and not fed with so much evil propaganda concerning it, one might
have found a very different sexual outcome, than the present one. On a more universal
level,
most of the problems or issues that the world and its people face today are, merely, the
effects of endless oppression. Human beings have disgraced the very essence of sexuality,
and manipulated it to reflect our own perverse and twisted state of life.