Sexual Revolution

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Summary: Pure Orgone
Review: This book is truly wonderful. It is an excellent collection of incisive essays from some of the twentieth centuries most valuable and visionary intellects. And they're all thinking about sex which, let's face it, is a pretty universally interesting subject. Even right-wing Christians do it occasionally to make children. The writings merrily leap beyond procreation, locate sex in the political-social and intellectual arena, and focus on the hot revolutionary decade from the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies. Amidst the steam they document the tremendous strides of liberation taking place -- women becoming orgasmic, gays becoming radicalized, and the average joe experiencing a greater sense of experimentation. It all an exhillarating read. Jeffrey Escoffier's presentation is articulate and passionate and his choice of material is impeccable. It's enough to make a nun leap over a convent wall.

Rating:
Summary: Pure Orgone
Review: This remarkable book is a collection of essays from some of the most valuable and visionary intellects of the twentieth-century. They're all talking about sex which is a pretty universally interesting subject. Even right-wing Chritians do it from time to time in order to have children. But this book goes way beyond procreation, locating sex in a social context and showing how it became radicalized, politicized, and changed society as a result. The many great writers from Simone de Beauvoir, to Carl Jung, to Susan Sontag, share their thoughts, and the resulting collection catalogues the leaps into liberation that were the hallmarks of the time; from women reclaiming pornography, to gays in revolt against monogamy, to the average Joe feeling a tad more...experimental. Jeffrey Escoffier has done a terrific job in presenting this work with passioanate enthusiasm and editting it with impecable taste. It's enough to send a nun over the convent wall.

Rating:
Summary: Pure Orgone
Review: This remarkable book is a collection of essays from some of the most valuable and visionary intellects of the twentieth-century. They're all talking about sex which is a pretty universally interesting subject. Even right-wing Chritians do it from time to time in order to have children. But this book goes way beyond procreation, locating sex in a social context and showing how it became radicalized, politicized, and changed society as a result. The many great writers from Simone de Beauvoir, to Carl Jung, to Susan Sontag, share their thoughts, and the resulting collection catalogues the leaps into liberation that were the hallmarks of the time; from women reclaiming pornography, to gays in revolt against monogamy, to the average Joe feeling a tad more...experimental. Jeffrey Escoffier has done a terrific job in presenting this work with passioanate enthusiasm and editting it with impecable taste. It's enough to send a nun over the convent wall.

Rating:
Summary: Pure Orgone
Review: Why give this book five stars? It is a catalogue of the nihilistic heresy of the twentieth century--a democratic utopia fueled by an orgy of sexual expression and "free love." What is the sexual revolution actually revolting against? Traditional Christian views on morality and along with it, societal and familiar structure. The worst part of this is many people in Third World, non-Christian states view this type of license as representative of America and the West in general, when in fact this is nothing further from the truth. An overemphasis on sexuality took off with Freud and his questionable theories in the late 1800s. The sexual revolution started swinging in the fifties and early sixties as more or less male fashionable dalliance idealized in _Playboy_ magazine. It later became embroiled with accompanying liberalizing factors in Western society during the sixties such as the civil rights movement and spilled over into feminism and the campaign for "gay" rights. This whole thing is anti-Christian, anti-patriarchal, anti-family and anti-Western to the core. It is constantly bombarding the world's populaces who are (un?)fortunate enough to be in some way to experience the television set, rock n' roll CD or Hollywood blockbuster movie. The sexual revolution is at the end of the day a fraud. No sooner than women began to spill into the workplace there was plenty of money to be made by lawyers specializing in sexual harassment lawsuits. Some progress humanity has made. The sexual revolution has its antecedents in history. A few ancient Gnostic sects, because they believed the material world inherently evil, indulged in the pleasures of the flesh because it supposedly did not affect the state of one's spiritual being, a few well documented here. When Christ is ignored, man will instead look for earthly means to bring about the Kingdom of God and eternal bliss on merely human terms. Christ's Kingdom is "not of this world" and will not be experienced in this life, but only in the Age to Come. In the case of the sexual revolution a millennial utopia is attained though the grossest desires of the flesh. Has the sexual revolution failed? Well, people are just as disgruntled as they ever were. At least Marx's economic utopia of the proletariat looked serious and businesslike. It's best to stick to traditional, moderate sexual values, which are especially important to maintain in the face of the world's dissolution and media propaganda. If you want the obscene details then look no further than _Sexual Revolution_. Everybody with some opinion and agenda are mentioned somewhere in here, from Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Norman Mailer to _Time_ Magazine, Larry Flint, Susan Sontag, etc.

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Summary: The Sexual Revolution: Yet Another Utopian Heresy.
Review: Why give this book five stars? It is a catalogue of the nihilistic heresy of the twentieth century--a democratic utopia fueled by an orgy of sexual expression and "free love." What is the sexual revolution actually revolting against? Traditional Christian views on morality and along with it, societal and familiar structure. The worst part of this is many people in Third World, non-Christian states view this type of license as representative of America and the West in general, when in fact this is nothing further from the truth. An overemphasis on sexuality took off with Freud and his questionable theories in the late 1800s. The sexual revolution started swinging in the fifties and early sixties as more or less male fashionable dalliance idealized in _Playboy_ magazine. It later became embroiled with accompanying liberalizing factors in Western society during the sixties such as the civil rights movement and spilled over into feminism and the campaign for "gay" rights. This whole thing is anti-Christian, anti-patriarchal, anti-family and anti-Western to the core. It is constantly bombarding the world's populaces who are (un?)fortunate enough to be in some way to experience the television set, rock n' roll CD or Hollywood blockbuster movie. The sexual revolution is at the end of the day a fraud. No sooner than women began to spill into the workplace there was plenty of money to be made by lawyers specializing in sexual harassment lawsuits. Some progress humanity has made. The sexual revolution has its antecedents in history. A few ancient Gnostic sects, because they believed the material world inherently evil, indulged in the pleasures of the flesh because it supposedly did not affect the state of one's spiritual being, a few well documented here. When Christ is ignored, man will instead look for earthly means to bring about the Kingdom of God and eternal bliss on merely human terms. Christ's Kingdom is "not of this world" and will not be experienced in this life, but only in the Age to Come. In the case of the sexual revolution a millennial utopia is attained though the grossest desires of the flesh. Has the sexual revolution failed? Well, people are just as disgruntled as they ever were. At least Marx's economic utopia of the proletariat looked serious and businesslike. It's best to stick to traditional, moderate sexual values, which are especially important to maintain in the face of the world's dissolution and media propaganda. If you want the obscene details then look no further than _Sexual Revolution_. Everybody with some opinion and agenda are mentioned somewhere in here, from Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Norman Mailer to _Time_ Magazine, Larry Flint, Susan Sontag, etc.