Men And Boys: How The Sexual Revolution Destroyed Male Friendships
by Gavin Peacock, Christian Today:
The picture above is of me with my former teammate John Spencer after one of my goals during our Chelsea days. One of the things I miss most about playing football is the camaraderie in the dressing room, where men are friends together in a common cause with big risks and big rewards.
Those playing days are over for me. But against the press of the sexual revolution in our culture today there is a great need to encourage masculine friendship and to cultivate godly virtue and noble manhood – for ourselves, our families and for the Church and its mission.
In the September 2005 edition of Touchstone magazine, Anthony Esolen, Professor of English at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, wrote an article entitled ‘A Requiem For Friendship: Why Boys Will Not Be Boys & Other Consequences of the Sexual Revolution’. He proposes that the breakdown in natural sexual order and relationships has led to the death of friendship and particularly masculine friendship.
Here’s an excerpt of the article where he reflects on a scene from Lord of the Rings:
“Sam Gamgee has been fool enough to follow his beloved master Frodo into Mordor, the realm of death. To rescue Frodo from the orcs who have taken him captive and who will slay him as soon as he ceases to be of use in finding the Ring, Sam has fought the monstrous spider Shelob, has eluded the pursuit of the orcs, and has dispatched a few of them to their merited deaths.
“Finally he finds Frodo in the upper room of a small filthy cell, naked, half-conscious, lying in a heap in a corner. ‘Frodo! Mr Frodo, my dear!’ he cries. ‘It’s Sam, I’ve come!’ With a bluff tenderness he clasps him to his breast, assuring him that it is really he, Sam, in the flesh….He cradles Frodo’s head, as one would comfort a troubled child.
“At that a snigger rises from the audience in the theatre. ‘What, are they gay?'”
Esolen goes on to attribute a redefinition of language to a pansexual agenda. He asserts that if you redefine words like “male”, “female”, “friend” and “love”, you can normalise “sexual confusion and anarchy”.
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