We need to hear the voice of history. In "Sex and
Culture" (1934) the anthropologist J.D. Unwin found a universal
correlation between monogamy and a civilization's "expansive energy."
He wrote:
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"These [sexually progressive] societies
lived in different geographical environments; they belonged to different racial
stocks; but the history of their marriage customs is the same. In the beginning
each society had the same ideas in regard to sexual regulations. Then the same
struggles took place; the same sentiments were expressed; the same changes were
made; the same results ensued. Each society reduced its sexual opportunity to a
minimum and displaying great social energy, flourished greatly. Then it
extended its sexual opportunity; its energy decreased, and faded away. The one
outstanding feature of the whole story is its unrelieved monotony."
Why isn’t there any present discussion of these possible
costs? An adolescent society wants its desires filled immediately and has no
ear for any consideration of the costs. It is willfully blind and condemns others
who try to open its eyes.
The late author, Aldous Huxley, summarized Unwin's research:
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"Unwin's conclusions, which are based upon
an enormous wealth of carefully sifted evidence, may be summed up as follows…[Sexual
permissive societies] displays the least amount of mental and social energy,
the productive the most. Investigation shows that the societies exhibiting the
least amount of energy are those where pre-nuptial continence is not imposed
and where the opportunities for sexual indulgence after marriage are greatest.
The cultural condition of a society rises in exact proportion as it imposes
pre-nuptial and post-nuptial restraints upon sexual opportunity."
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"In human records there is no instance of a
society retaining its energy after a complete new generation has inherited a
tradition which does not insist on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial
continence." For Roman, Greek, Sumerian, Moorish, Babylonian, and
Anglo-Saxon civilizations, Unwin had several hundred years of history to draw
on. He found with no exceptions that these societies flourished during eras
that valued sexual fidelity. Inevitably, sexual mores would loosen and the societies
would subsequently decline, only to rise again when they returned to more rigid
sexual standards." https://www.tremr.com/Duck-Rabbit/sexually-permissive-societies-always-fall-anthropologist-says#.WoCempog4vY.facebook
Three thousand years earlier, the Bible also sounded this
warning:
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He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does
it destroys himself. He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not
be wiped away. (Proverbs 6:32-33 ESV)
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My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes
observe my ways. For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow
well. (Proverbs 23:26-27)
Jesus warned that adultery begins in the heart and eyes:
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“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not
commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with
lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew
5:27-28)
Today, anything goes – transgenderism, incest, pedophilia, and
polyamory – and anyone who says otherwise suffers scorn. Humanity is in a mad
race for perdition.
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