Anyhooo, I wonder if anyone else has this problem. If sometimes there's this whole big long wall of words and craziness if your eyes don't accidentally catch certain words that make you skip ahead. Or misread things, like condom (see above). Maybe it's just something regarding my own sex. However, I don't think that it is restrictive to only just that.
If you're anything like me, your eyes darted to "sex" before you realized what I meant. Why? It's not like I'm desperate for it or anything and okay this just got weird.
And that's my point. From what I gather, everyone has totally different reactions and yet equally extreme reactions.
Sex.
Just that word alone elicits anger, fear, awkwardness, or an of the other reactions of the posts before and probably after mine. "Immature" jokes, shifting eyes, uncomfortable chatter, guilty conversation.
So, when Jonathan said he was going to post on sex, I knew the reaction it would get. It would make people uncomfortable. So of course I told him to do it. But in class, and reading through the blogs I started wondering why it makes such a huge impact. To us Christians sex is just a part of marriage. (I'm just going to stick to this idea for this point, but I do acknowledge that there are different ways to view sex)
Sharing a bathroom.
If Leeper had said that alone in class, it wouldn't cause such a great tide of panic as did the sex talk. But aren't they just a part of marriage? You share a bathroom. You have sex. Why does the second one cause us to shift in our seats a bit?
Because we were raised to believe it's dirty? Admittedly, it did take a lot of growing up for me to realize that it's natural and not something to be shamed. But, in response to the sexual promiscuity of our culture, the Christian culture seems to be telling us that sex is a no-no. But so is murder.
Envy.
Ooooo, so scary. Okay, so that didn't cause anyone to freak and yell "Penis!" Yet Scripture also teaches against this. In fact, it's never okay to covet anything your neighbor has. But there are definitely times sex is okay. Adultering (I know it's not a word) is against the commandments, but so is murdering and jealousy.
So why is sex the thing that is so controversial? Why are we okay with murder in a movie but not sex? What makes them so different? Why do we allow children to watch violent shows with murder and thievery and materialism and everything, but we CANNOT allow them to see anything with even a hint of sex in it?
I'm wondering if maybe sex, despite what modern society tells us, openly shows us our insecurities. Going to school naked in dreams is a clear sign of insecurity. And sex is so much more intimate than that. Both sides (excluding any threesomes in the equation) are seriously stripping themselves of their defenses. What's scarier than that?
So, maybe that's why we joke or avoid eyes. To layer up in our defenses. Why we don't like talking about sex unless in jest. Because no one wants to feel insecure. Even mentioning it. Because, of course, none of us ever feel insecure.
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