Given the reality of male human nature, I can think of few cultural messages more destructive \u2014 more enabling for sexual predators \u2014 than the sexual-revolution ethics that urge indulgence, that often describe sexual relationships as the object of human interaction. It\u2019s as if the sexual revolutionary looks at original sin and says, \u201cYes please.\u201d<\/p>\n
I know the sexual revolutionary objects to my critique. He rightly says that he doesn\u2019t believe that \u201canything goes.\u201d He erects moral walls against exploitation \u2014 the most prominent is consent. But if men fail (and they too often do) when the moral codes are more strict and the call to live a higher purpose is more pronounced, why do sexual revolutionaries believe men will fail less when the moral codes diminish and sexual freedom is considered part of their life\u2019s purpose? Do they not see the linkage between handing out condoms by the armload \u2014 and celebrating \u201csex weeks\u201d in college \u2014 and the number of women who feel used, abused, and exploited?<\/p>\n
Much of the modern moral struggle is the war between entitlement and obligation. Raise a boy to live for himself, with a sense of entitlement, and he will often unleash that enormous inborn energy in the most destructive of ways. Raise a boy to live for others, with a sense of obligation, and that same energy can build a nation and sustain a culture. We can\u2019t make a perfect world, but we do have a choice. Better or worse? It\u2019s time to recognize and respond to human nature, or \u2014 despite the best of intentions \u2014 we will continue to choose to be worse.<\/p>\n