This post is about sex and I apologize in advance for those of you–you know who you are–for whom this topic is justly painful.  Would that it were not so.

I’m no Francis Berger–I have neither the depths nor the heights–but I do have some more Deep Thoughts about porn.  Or rather, my brain does.  Yes, at 3 AM.  It’s no literary affectation, poppets, from time to time my brain really does wake me up at 3 AM to brood about Deep Thoughts.  There seems to be no consistent connection to what I ate or my mood or my activity or mindset the night before.

In addition to the many more obvious problems with porn, one big problem is that it conditions men’s brains to associate sexual satisfaction with being passive and inert.  There is no masculine energy involved.  Further, because we have a celebrity culture where screen time is status, it conditions them to approach sex as an inferior.  Passive and low status, they are getting sexual reward from being passive and low status.  Like a rat that gets a little bunt of cocaine for pushing the button, but the button they push is the destruction of their own masculinity.

Oh, the crafty plan of the Adversary!  He’s a sly devil.

What we all need is a Copernican revolution of the mind, and its what we all need, not just the porn-addicted.  We need to see that a man’s desire for sex is not just acceptable but actually noble.  Our attitude tends to be that sex is OK, if married.  If we feel particularly daring, sex is good, if married.  And it is!  (And outside marriage its out of place, yes!)  We need to add on to that, be particularly extra special daring, and see the man’s desire for sex as also good.   Because the desiring and the wanting and even the striving is masculine, it has masculine energy, it expresses the male nature.

That there is a female equivalent, a sort of delight in snaring her husband’s attention, I do not doubt.

Note:  This is a sensitive topic.  Feel free to disagree, but use care.  Use care if you do agree also.

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