Being incredibly busy of late has not given me much time to engage in blogging, which perhaps is no bad thing. However, there have been many matters in the news that I felt a blog coming on about - not least the antics of the sex-craved media types and male politico's who think that condoms are the answer to every sexually transmitted disease.
The approach taken by such people seems to be to be totally disingenuous for a number of reasons. Firstly, they seem to use this as a reason to blame the Holy Father for the deaths of countless people in Africa through HIV and Aids - this is a poor argument as countless men refuse to use them anyway and so abstinence has to be advised in such a situation. This is barely disguised anti-Roman Catholic sentiment, and a cheap-shot to boot, which takes little account of nuanced arguments put forward by the Holy See.
A Government Minister (can't remember whether he was in the Cabinet or not) claimed some few weeks ago on BBC Television news that "everyone has a right to a fulfilling sexual life" REALLY? A RIGHT? How do such ignorant people get into positions of power and influence. Any sexual relationship is a gift, not a right - would that "minister" care to say what he said to the poor victims of rape? "Everyone?" - including paedophiles?
I sometimes think that we are led by men who are using the force of law to enable themselves to legitimise any form of sexual behaviour that they wish to indulge in - and what surprises me even more is that in an age when women's rights have, we are told, been advanced we see women being compliant in allowing men, to use women for their own gratification with very little consequence. It seems that condoms are OK for people in Africa, but ladies in this country don't have to worry as they can always have an abortion, thus making sure the male gets heightened pleasure and at the same time doesn't have to worry about the consequences. Oh yes, we recommend condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in this land, but it really does seem that the original intention of them, i.e. birth control has been replaced by treating abortion as the main form of preventing the birth of a child.
On the one hand the Government seeks to promote the use of condoms and on the other encourages high-risk sexual behaviour at ever younger ages. How long before we see a move to lowering the age of consent to 14 as in some European nations? Already, the age of consent is 15 in Poland, 14 in Portugal and 13 (with some restrictions) in Spain - and there are those who advocate such moves in this land too. If we go down this route then we run the risk of pandering to the base desires of those men who seek to use others for their gratification rather than seeing sexual relationships as a gift from God best expressed in the Sacrament of Marriage, where commitment and the promise of fidelity bring safety and assurance to both man and woman.
Who is wiser - the man who says use a condom and have as many partners as you like, or the man who says abstain until you are married to the man or woman that you love? Politicians may argue that human nature tends towards multiple partners, but in previous ages we asked men to reign in their baser instincts and to respect women, and we taught women not to be fooled by predatory men. Have we really progressed? I think not.
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