Chastity in the Culture of Now

Chastity in the Culture of Now

Sex is everywhere today, and I don’t think that there is a man reading this blog who has seen a time in his life when it wasn’t. I remember catching a boob on ShowTime through scrambled cable and age 9, and downloading some pretty bad 80’s porn off Limewire with my friends at age 11, and losing my virginity at 16. Billboards and advertisements everywhere show women and men in various states of undress with seductive looks on their faces, urging you to…buy shampoo? Moreover, finding pornography or casual sex today is as easy as pulling my phone out and either opening my web browser or preferred dating app(for the love of almighty God, delete tinder and repent). From birth it seems, we men are exposed to a constant barrage of sexually suggestive advertisement, entertainment, and interaction pulling us this way and that way, quite literally by the balls. Sex has an incredible power and allure over us that are often times irresistible. So, what are we to do in an era where so much sex and so much deviancy is so readily available, and where all it takes to get us to buy some shitty smelling cologne these days is to show us a video of some guy attracting women? How do we stop letting sex have so much power over us?

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