The oversexualization of life
Lust is not a new sin, but one of the results of the degradation in society today is the oversexualization of everything.
Especially women and sometimes abhorently young women and girls are hyper sexualized as a result of the new liberties taken in sexuality.
We see sex and pornography advertized in media and in billboards that we may drive past.
In restaurants, even the advertising of the food, the names given to dishes may be sexualized, either through naming dishes after sexual positions, or even with imagery attached.
It has seeped into every facet of our everyday life, and, even to sell us food, or simple underwear, we are sold porn and sex along with it.
This over saturation of human desire is so common place that it is seen as foreign to NOT view others in a sexual light, on a normal everyday basis.
It is no wonder that men struggle with pornography in light of this. When lust is the strongest desire advertized anf sold directly to men.
But we have to admit that the western view of women, of men even, and unfortunately of young adults is over sexualized to the point where discussion of unrelated topics somehow reach the conclusion of lust.
This becomes apparent in any series you may decide to watch.
Where sex is sold as a necessary part of the show. What used to be innuendo, evolved on to be softcore porn, and has now transformed into pure pornography.
The worst part is, that we're supposed to accept this as normal. If you do not accept your surrounding world as normal, you immediately become the 'other'.
The prude. The one scared to talk about sex. But do we have to talk about sex more than it is already discussed in the present day? No. We don't.
You are mocked as a woman, for your modesty and for your attempt at shielding yourself from the oversaturation of sex.
You are mocked for your prudeness, your apparent fear of sex.
But it is not fear of sex and of nakedness that stopped this oversexualization from occurring in the past.
It was something much more apparent to the ones that originally built our current civilization.
This over emphasis on sex and on the body leads to a degrading of the soul.
It strips away your uniqueness as an individual when you are only viewed in a sexual light.
The body has become the central focus, but not the person.
As C.S Lewis perfectly puts it:
"If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, “Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,” they may mean “the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of.”
If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.1" — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity