JUNK SEX VS LOVING SEX – DIFFERENT ATTITUDES
This patient’s experience is typical of those of many on today’s dating scene. Yet, just a few decades ago it would have been atypical. In former times, our society had a much different attitude toward dating, sex, and marriage. Indeed, prior to the early 1960s, popular magazines still debated about whether it was all right for people to have sex before marriage—and, in most of the societies of the world, premarital sex is still forbidden. In such societies there are clearly delineated rules to follow with regard to dating, sex, and marriage. You may agree or disagree with the rules, but you are not confused about your role, sexuality, or identity as they relate to those rules. Similarly, in former times, sexuality was less complicated: There were neither sex therapists to tell us about our various sexual disorders, nor social workers to remind us of the various kinds of sexual abuse. Sex just happened—and it was either good, or not so good. In former times there was no AIDS.
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