Do we live in a sex-obsessed culture?

Question

If we do then is this good, bad or just okay?

Answer 1

I think we do. For me, whenever something becomes an obsession or is done excessively, it is not good, even though that thing is orginally a good thing. Like eating, we all have to eat to keep ourselves going. A sensible thing is to eat the right amount of the right food at the right time. If we eat too much, eat a lot of junk or if we eat at the wrong time (for example, eat when we're not hungry), we are violating our body and the result is that we get sick and feel really awful. If we are obsessed with food, we have little time for anything else and that's not what life is meant to be. Sex is like this. It's a basic human need which has to be satisfied but it is not something we need all the time and do with just anybody. The culture in which we live nowadays seems to preach otherwise, in the same way as it sells us highly processed junk food that doesn't nourish our body or promote health. Sex, in the context of a loving, caring and committed relationship, is the highest form of human connection and not only does it satisfy the body but it also nourishes the soul, bringing us closer to our other half. Junk sex, like junk food, that is sex consumed indiscriminately, has quite the opposite effect on us. It is like drinking cola to quench your thirst or eating food high in MSG to satisfy your hunger. The more you consume junk drink/food, the thirstier or hungrier you feel and the sicker you get. Likewise, the more junk sex people have, the more emotionally depleted
they feel and the result of long term obsession with junk sex can leave people feel more and more dissatisfied, unfulfilled and degraded to the point where they can't feel their own value. I always think that human society has evolved to the stage where we shouldn't be dominated by our animal instincts but the sex-obsessed culture of today's world seems to point to the opposite direction. I have thought that in this world, where human rights are valued, our young women should be loved, treasured and protected and not used by men or exploited commercially. In today's sex-obsessed culture, women's dignity and respectability doesn't seem to matter anymore. This I think is detrimental to men/women relationships. When a generation of young men grows up to believe that women are sex object, what hope is there for them to respect women? What hope is there for a stable relationship where men won't treat women as something they could use for pleasure? What hope is there for young women to have high self esteem and feel loved and valued? I think junk sex is really a kind of self-harm. If we value ourselves and fellow human beings, we don't allow ourselves to use others or be used, just for bodily pleasure, just as we don't contaminate our bodies with junk food that harm our health.

Answer 2

Um, yeah. Pornography, Rape, BDSM, Prostitution, Teen Pregnancy, STDS, Abortion..... All are the products of sex and sex-obsession. This is not okay. A little sex is okay, but a culture completely revolving around it is not. People are raped by their sex-obsessed friends and are traumatized for life thinking its their fault when its not. People who think they love each other have sex and then the man abandons the woman, leaving her to her pregnancy. Abortion is the result of unsafe and irresponsible sex, because if they had sex right, they would want to keep the baby. Men look at still unmoving pictures on a flat, two-dimensional surface instead of spending time with their wife, family. People tie people up and pretend its fun when it really has no morality. Women in desperate need of money are forced into prostitution to get money for sex. Unsafe sex leads to diseases that can kill, dismember, and wound a relationship.

Sex is okay.
Sex-obsession is not.

Answer 3

Not at all. I believe that the taboo of sex is lesser than it has been in previous generations, and I'm glad. Why should the human body be "forbidden"? Sex is a natural, normal process that most human beings partake in so why should it be considered a taboo subject?

While children do mimic what they see on television, the parents should be in control of how their child behaves. This might include dressing more provocatively. We cannot blame society for those things.

I think it's fine that sex is more available to society. It's not sex-obsessed but in the end of the day, sex sells.

Answer 4

I think our culture is corrupt... our minds are depraved. I do think we are living in a sex-obsessed culture. Think about it, back 40 or 50 years ago, did anyone ever get in real trouble for things that we're in trouble for now? Think about leave it to beaver, he got in trouble for stealing a pencil from someones locker. His parents had to go into the school and talk to the principal. Think about it now, if someone is doing drugs in school, if someone brings a gun to school. Stealing is becoming less of a problem, and we're starting to deal with the more dangerous problems. Our culture has gone down the drain. Parents are starting to let their kids do things that their parents would never let them do when they were that age. Sex, is a problem, but its becoming a normal thing now. Television shows have shown kids its ok to hurt people, its ok to talk back to your parents. Your children are watching you, what you are they will becoming and know its ok because you did it. Our culture is loosing its moral code, and its not good.

Answer 5

Maybe not "sex-obsessed" but definitely "sex-focused". The music, the movies, the clothing, sometimes even the toys kids play with. Teenage girls dress and act more sexual at a younger age, girls that worked for me told me stories of things that went on at boy/girl parties, in the movie theaters, etc. Things I didn't do when I was their age! And I was no saint. Bratz dolls look like hookers, they are coming out with "Pussycat Dolls" dolls! What kind of message does that send?
My bf has a 5 year old daughter and I am trying to get it through his head what is yet to come. She already mimics things she sees in kids shows, cartoons, movies, etc. I am very careful what she watches, even when we think she isn't watching/listening, she is.
I think it's bad.

Answer 6

Not obsessed, but a little keen... I don't think it is particularly bad, but it isn't really that good either. I like to be sex obsessed with just the one person, if I were to spread it around a bit then it wouldn't be so good.

Answer 7

Humans are animals - and sexual ones at that. Sex is natural, and it's only all the religious moralizing that makes it seem like a bad thing. If you go to other countries, people are not nearly as riled up about sexual things - it's handled openly and accepted as part of humanity, as it should be.

Answer 8

No. People are sometimes sex-obsesses because it's human nature.

Answer 9

Yes we do ! Blame most of it on media coverage. Its in your face on TV dependant on no. of channels you have, magazines, newspapers, dvd's, videos, most rely on sex to sell whatever.
Not sure if good or bad. Good if HIV, sexually transmitted diseases are highlighted and sex education in schools is sufficient to cope with this sex-obsessed culture. Bad if it encourages sex crimes, peodophiles, and abortions or violent crime or excessive drug, alcohol usage.

Answer 10

Has there ever been any other kind?