Oversexed

Our culture has a serious obsession with sex. We’ve destroyed its intended gift, causing thousands of people to suffer from disease, relationships and lives to be ruined, and babies to die by the millions each year.\nWith the porn industry generating $13 billion annually, it is ravaging men’s and women’s lives and leads to sexual addiction and objectification. Pornography is not about art or freedom of speech. It’s about making big money and making it the wrong way.\nIU contributes to the problem. The garbage the Kinsey Institute promotes and publishes may be meant to educate the public on gender and human sexuality, but this isn’t what it’s doing. Kinsey is normalizing sexual expression and making sexuality less of a taboo, so more people can participate and “enjoy their bodies.” \nI was disgusted and saddened the other night when the Indiana Memorial Union, the Kinsey Institute, feminist groups and the CUE Program promoted the Sex Workers’ Art Show. Its purpose was to “dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators and geniuses!” It celebrated “prostitutes’ rights and sex-positivity” while thankfully showing the darker side of the industry. It promised to be entertaining and arousing. What I thought was most arousing, however, was the woman checking out the brochures and flyers with me who had armpit hair. Now that’s hot! \nWhile the Kinsey Institute and the Sex Workers’ Art Show misuse sex and promote pornography, let me tell you about Ted Bundy, the infamous serial killer who confessed to murdering 30 women. He grew up in a healthy, church-attending family and explored pornography. In his final interview before execution, Bundy told how his addiction to violent pornography contributed to and fueled his thoughts of fantasy into reality – engaging in rape and necrophilia with his victims. Without exception, everyone he met in prison who had committed violent crimes was influenced by and consumed with an addiction to pornography. He said it’s the most common influence among serial killers. Now, I’m not suggesting that if you’re a frequent user of pornography you’re going to become a serial killer. I am suggesting, though, that you will set yourself up for an addiction, mental and emotional problems and disappointment. You will ruin your life and relationships because of it. \nTherefore, I have this revolutionary idea to prevent all sexual diseases, unwanted pregnancies and demand for pornography: abstinence. Guys wouldn’t stretch their egos by tallying up all the girls they’ve been with. Women would feel more appreciated and less objectified. In fact, many Christian leaders in churches today promote the idea that waiting until marriage to have sex is a glorifying act to God! \nWe’ve ruined the gift of sex. This is made evident by disease, abortion rates and pornography revenues. We can change this, though, if we just start believing in abstinence and that love can be shown in ways other than sex.\nLook at me. I’m 20 years old and a proud virgin. And let me tell you, I can’t wait for my wedding night. And I’m not ashamed to admit it!