The progressive war on sex

By Heba Yosry, Artillery Row:

Sex has always held the vital potential for igniting human creativity. Across the centuries the yearning of lust that culminated in sexual union has inspired poets, philosophers, artists and others who viewed it as the primordial archetype of all human intimacy.

The existential angst that can make one feel marooned from other people, where you feel alienated even from your own self can only be alleviated through human touch. As counterintuitive as it may sound, I believe that sex — in its most genuine form — is probably one of the activities that can revive and sustain faith in the Divine spirit that dwells within ourselves. The frenzy of erotic desire can provide an intimation of eternity and a true understanding of who we are.

Nevertheless, we have recently witnessed what I would call a drastic degradation of the once sublime status and nature of sex. This can be seen in the general decline of people actually having sex, the transactional milieu now associated with sex, and the homogenization of increasingly fetishized desire.

One major issue that has paved the way for this phenomenon is the modern insistence on a separation of mind and body. This divorce of spirit and flesh is indoctrinated very early on as the only politically correct understanding of the body. Material existence, symbolized by the physicality of the body, is perceived as an imposition on the wandering mind that cannot find repose in its shackled state.

Read here