The Sexual Revolution Of The 20th Century - 1712 Words

When people learn that I practice and preach about chastity, many are taken back. It’s not often that you find a young, teenage girl unashamed in her choice to remain pure. I’ve accepted that if I’m going to live a pure lifestyle, I can’t expect the world to understand my decision. And I blame it all on the sexual revolution. Up to that point in the twentieth century, people were living in a prudish, unhealthy culture that twisted our human sexuality into something that was looked down upon, as something to be ashamed of. Repressing one’s sexual desires simply does not work; that’s not how we were built. (Remember that whole made from love, created for love thing?) The sexual revolution took the world by storm because they had been†¦show more content†¦That is impossible in an environment that upholds works like Eve Ensler s The Vagina Monologues, inviting people to reduce their self-image to their anatomy. Likewise, there is no dignity in a society that encourages touching another person s body but not allowing that person to touch your heart. Chastity is not about locking ourselves up in a tower and wearing a steel belt all our days; it’s being freed from selfishness and the standards of our culture and growing in our capacity to love authentically. Chastity and abstinence are frequently confused with each other. Abstinence is merely abstaining from all sexual encounters. Abstinence focuses on what you can’t do and what you can’t have. That statement contradicts chastity. Chastity focuses and what can have and do have right now; a lifestyle that brings freedom, respect, peace, joy, romance- without regret. Because chastity involved purity in many cases, some people think in means reverting to that puritan movement of sexual repression. ON the contrary, it frees lovers up from that selfish attitude of using each other, making them capable of true love. In fact, the Catholic Catechism states â€Å"All Christ’s faithful are called to live a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life.† By â€Å"states of life†, the Church means that there is married chastity and unmarried chastity. What? How does that work? Chastity is a virtue,