Politics and Society: The Sexually Revolting

In his article, The Sexual Revolution Turns Ugly Stephen Baskerville links recent scandals of sexual misconduct with, consequentially, the Sexual Revolution. Please read this article here. Here is my take.
I see the logic in Baskerville's assertion that sexual liberation has given us an over-sexualized world, sex sells, and instead of viewing sex as something beautiful between two consenting adults it is instead too often regarded as a commodity, an outlet, a release, a mechanism of power, and yes even abuse or violence. But like the author of this article points out such behaviors now categorized as misconduct always existed, it was just called sin. The revolution was to liberate society from the Christian conventions that allegedly oppressed them, now a few decades later we look to put functionally similar though secular conventions.
It makes me wonder, how many other traditional Judaeo-Christian conventions will society vilify as oppressive constructs only to later replace with functionally similar secular remedies?

The constructs of marriage and monogamy originated in the societal need for a corrective path from a more primitive human proclivity of promiscuity. A state where alpha males with a perceived aptitude to provide attracted the majority of the females, male promiscuity was rooted in multiple simultaneous partners, female promiscuity resulted when the status of the alpha waned and she sought out a new provider. Both were destructive to the offspring such relationships created. Clearly these alphas would favor the more attractive females, leaving the less attractive to suffer the abuses associated with trying to find security. The non-alphas had few females to complete for, we could go on about how this nurtures a violent and destructive society if one could call it a society at all and there are many nuances I haven't addressed but it does not get prettier. The religious and legal institution of marriage remedied such issues. Promoting monogamy and shaming promiscuity helped steer society away from the destructive fringes of our more primitive selves. This has occurred in all enduring societies, even the more primitive aboriginal ones. Until the sexual revolution.

I have noticed that a lot of these complaints against folks in Hollywood or the press have come from those that did not benefit from the alleged misconduct. Meaning the accuser failed to get a part or a job on the show, and note how they did not complain when the misbehavior occurred. Could it be that in our overly-sexualized culture that there are young people (male and female) that are not above trying to use their charms to advance their careers? Then the indignation comes only when it fails to? It is possible. Perhaps likely. Notice how in many of these accusations the accused made an advance that was rebuked and then there was nothing more of it? The accused respected the rebuke and pressed no more. I don't mean to trivialize cases of true harassment and especially not rape. To me it seems that there is a culture in Hollywood that we are just beginning to see, this does not mean that the Weinstein's and Spacey's aren't creeps, rather that it was likely that these "sinners" received some indication from those they 'harassed' that made them think such advances were not in fact unwanted. One of Charlie Rose's accusers went to his house to talk about a job opportunity, to me that would seem highly irregular, but I would bet that in accepting such an invitation Rose perceived reciprocity. This all gets very blurry very quickly and some of this is reminiscent of The Crucible. A mere accusation in the public eye is equivalent to conviction so long as we maintain the perception that the accuser is an innocent victim and the accused is a person of power or privilege (and most likely a white male). The timing also seems convenient when there is an outwardly vocal movement against the "patriarchy". If you can outwardly paint all men as inherently sexually violent and oppressive towards women then the more believable false claims will become. Even if every single one of the claims against men in the media are true, then I would say we should look first at the culture of Hollywood and the media before we jump on a sexist and perhaps racist bandwagon of anti-masculine far-left feminists.

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