A Brief Look at the Sexual Revolution

                                                                                                                                                          Vol. XXII, No. 6, June/July 2009

In a postscript added in the 1990 edition of [his] novel [The Harrad Experiment, author Robert] Rimmer neatly summarizes his religion: "Can we lift ourselves by the bootstraps and create a new kind of society where human sexuality and the total wonder of the human body and the human mind become the new religion, a humanistic religion, without the necessity of a god, because you and I and all the billions who could interact caringly with one another are the only god we need? I think we can."

Sexuality is clearly being presented as more than mere sensual gratification or titillation. It is nothing less than a form of redemption, a means to heal the fundamental flaw in human nature. Only when we see these sexual ideologies as complete worldviews, held with religious fervor, will we understand why Christians and moral conservatives find it so hard to reform sex-education courses in public schools. You won't find contemporary sex educators using words like salvation; nonetheless, many hold the same basic assumption that free sexual expression is the means to a full and healthy life.

For example, Mary Calderone, a major architect of contemporary sex education and former executive director of Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), tipped her hand in a 1968 article in which she said that the "real question" facing sex educators is this: "What kind [of person] do we want to produce" to take the place of human nature as we know it today? And "how do we design the production line" to create this advanced creature?''

     Chuck Colson & Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live, (Tyndale House, 1999) p. 241