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Why target the question. Why wouldn't everyone want to return to some kind of modesty?
How does it feel to be controlled by your sexual organs? To have it debased into something gross and twisted.
The problem with the modern world is people put **** in a jar and call it art. They run around topless and call it fashion. They write an essay on lazyness and call it scholarship...
There are no ideals anymore, there are no more noble pursuits. We do not want people to be the best they can be. We celebrate the worst that we can be. Look at William Hung.
Everything has been infected by post-modernism.
2006-09-08 03:37:03
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answered by TK421 5
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I'm not looking for a return to any age. I'm just looking to live a life where I love everyone, lust after no one. Take no steps in the direction of a one-flesh relationship with someone unless we are sure we want to spend our lives together - i.e. stay completely platonic at very least until engagement.
As far as dress is concerned, I basically cover everything from the neck down. Sometimes a bit of collarbone, or wrist, occasionally a bit of ankle by accident. I prefer it that way, though I wouldn't legislate it for other people.
See, there's little point in legislating modesty. Modesty is only real if it comes from the heart and has nothing to do with worries about something horrible happening if one doesn't conform to someone else's idea of modesty.
But the plain fact of the matter is that it is possible to live modestly in today's day and age, and I think we could all do to think more about what that means.
2006-09-08 03:31:45
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answered by songkaila 4
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I don't want to return to any previous age. I'd like to see a brand new one, where people actually respect their own bodies, and can be confident in saying no when they mean no...and not give a dam what anyone says. I wish people would figure out that when you give it away very easily, your partner won't HAVE to treat you with respect. Why even ask your name? That doesn't matter anymore, when you're willing to give it away without the drugery of knowing the person you're being intimate with. If you don't have to 'win' the person over by treating them decently, then you don't have to worry about any responsibility where sex is concerned either. After all...who cares about that person when... if you weren't around... they would only give it to someone else anyway?
I wish people would treat intimacy as something special, rather than a bargaining tool. Now, if you don't put out...you don't get/keep the guy/girl. Problem being, if you DO put out that easily, how long do you think you'll keep that person anyway? Heck, I'm not even religious. I don't want sexual ignorance, repression or lies. I want people to be educated, and I want it to be socially acceptable to say 'No'. I want it to be preferable to say no. I'm not saying pre-marital sex is horrific and you're headed for hell if you have it. I'm saying...intimacy should have MUCH more importance than we're giving it now.
2006-09-08 03:42:29
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answered by Lisa E 6
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Fundie -Christians arent the only ones that wish things could go back to a simpler time.
Many things are scary about the prevalence and availability of porn via the net. You make one wrong click of the mouse and your in for a ride. My 14 yr has been taking sneak peaks, I check his IE history periodically. Most of it is the same type of stuff we used to get sneaking peeks at dad's Playboy.
Now it's nothing to see chicks going down on each other, getting film clips of anal, oral.. In someways I would like to see some way to rollback time to a more "innocent" time.. As far as lies and pretending, I think fantasy is healthy, But I also think viewing tying up, gagging and beating a sex partner pushes the envelope of what is healthy fantasy.
Recent studies have shown that "using" porn is no different physiologically then many other addictions. Endorphines are released when people have intercourse OR masturbate to porn or smoke crack.
I do long for days past, when kids could walk around the town without the possibility of some pervert grabbing them, raping and killing them. We've had several disappearances in our midsize town over the last year or so, all the girls were found slain and evidence of violate rapes and porn involved in the perps life.
Something to think about ain't it.
2006-09-08 03:36:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Definately not the Victorian age- that wasn't modesty, it was repression.
The 50's were probably the best. Yes, immorality happened, but it was considered a scandal and wasn't condoned by the media like it is now. And it wasn't on the TV every single time you turned it on. You could let your kids go to the movies without worrying.
2006-09-08 08:11:15
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answered by ashcatash 5
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I agree there is no such thing as a "Golden Age," sexual immodesty has always existed, always will. With every change in culture comes good and bad things, for example getting a divorce has become very easy, that's terrible when people tear apart families for small, selfish reasons, but at the same time the increase eased can be seen as a good thing because more women are able to get out of abusive relationships.
Same with today, on one hand the increased culture of open sexuality is terrible because younger and younger children are becoming sexually active and emotionally messing themselves up. At the same time it can be seen as good because there is with it an increased knowledge and understanding of diseases, and biological processes.
I think religious teachers and parents need to be careful how they teach about sex. It seems like there's the message that "sex is evil, and wrong, and dirty, and you should save it for the one you love." That is a completely mixed message. Then again, the sex portrayed on TV that is completely frivolous without consequences is also a mixed message.
Sex is wonderful thing, it always has been, it just can be manipulated to be a terrible thing also. As my husband and I are preparing to become parents we have talked about how we want to teach our children about sex, because we don't want our kids to only get mixed messages.
best wishes
2006-09-08 03:32:45
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answered by daisyk 6
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I don't think there was ever a place to return to regarding sexual immorality except perhaps before the fall of man. Imagine having perfect unity with your husband, no shame, no fear of what he's going to think of you in the nude, nothing negative at all, no secrets, no lies no pretending - all of that unecessary. Every age in the history of man has been full of sexual immodesty. There's no escaping it. I can tell you a few times I wouldn't return to - one of those being Sodom and Gommorah before it was destroyed and just before Noah's flood. The Bible says the world will become much like it was before Noah's flood before the Lord returns. The world is getting very sexually immodest and it sickens me at times that a person who wants to be virtuous and remain untouched by porn - can't even drive down street without seeing it on a billboard - but things were much worse than that before Noah's flood. Once it gets that bad - there will be prostitutes on almost every street corner and people unabashadly having sex whenever wherever and with whoever they feel like it without even being private. There will be way less restraint on immodesty and immorality than there is now. Fortunately - one day there will be a return to true purity which no one can even really comprehend because none of us living people have ever experienced it. It's way better than the joys of immodesty and immorality - that I do know. Not everyone will enter that age. But, that's what I actually have to look forward to -something much better than what I could ever find on earth right now in anytime in history since before the fall.
2006-09-08 03:29:09
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answered by ? 6
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2016-10-14 11:09:21
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answered by ? 4
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People are all different now and have always been. Another age would probably be about the same as it is now with regards to peoples' feelings about sex (or anything else for that matter).
2006-09-08 03:26:33
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answered by tomleah_06 5
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Unintelligible
2006-09-08 03:34:22
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answered by Anonymous
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