CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: Sexual culture: Hugh Hefner. Sketches from American history. A prophecy, 1930.

miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2015

Sexual culture: Hugh Hefner. Sketches from American history. A prophecy, 1930.

We have ended up with three articles about sex today. Sorry. The Playboy people are largely to blame, for creating an opportunity to rebuke them for the harm they have done over the past 60 years. So much tripe is spoken about sexuality that we were delighted to be reminded of a 2003 essay by Dr Allan Carlson of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society which takes a look back at American sexual culture in different eras, starting with the Puritan settlers. A great read.

And Marcus Roberts has also been consulting a classic -- a book published in 1930 with startlingly accurate predictions about what would happen if marriage were to be "de-moralized", as Bertrand Russell urged at the time. Christopher Dawson wrote:

“Marriage will lose all attraction for the young and the pleasure-loving and the poor and the ambitious. The energy of youth will be devoted to contraceptive love and only when men and women have become prosperous and middle-aged will they think seriously of settling down to rear a strictly limited family.”(Christianity and Sex, p 27.)

For light relief there's a nice little review of Hotel Transylvania 2, which seems to be great fun.

Enjoy your weekend!