#MeToo

The following is my personal opinion and does not reflect any official position of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

I was flying home from a work conference last year in April and a business college of mine spent most of the short flight talking about how right it is that he encourages his boys to masturbate.  Talk about awkward.  It was more of a justification speech than a conversation.  I don't know if I was more shocked at his views or that he was talking about it with a woman sitting between us.

This forceful imposition of his views is typical of how so many in the world need us to agree with them because they think somehow that if enough people believe it; it becomes ok.  As if by normalizing something, the natural consequences are abated.

We are saturated in society's filth.  We can't even watch a Carl's Jr. hamburger commercial without having to endure a half-naked female model in some lude pose.

Playboy recently announced that they were removing naked women from their magazine because nudity had become so prevalent and so accessible on the internet that you can't sell it anymore.

Even if you put the religious aspect of self-control and inappropriate images aside for a moment and just consider this issue from a secular perspective; sex and pornography are addictive no different than many other chemical addictions.  That is a fact.  The problem with any addiction is that the more of it you use, the less effect it has on you; creating a progressive need for more.  In other words, masturbation and pornography are "gateway drugs" to sex addiction.

If you doubt that is true, I submit to you the sudden unveiling of the reprobates in our society that have given rise to the #MeToo movement.  Where do you think all these men came from?  Everyone is so anxious to prosecute these vipers of society, but those same people who feign surprise over the actions of these men have no interest in asking how these titans of society came to be that way. That is because they already know the answer and choose to ignore it.  These men grew up in the "sexual revolution;" which is nothing more than a cover for normalizing and rationalizing the lack of self-control.

I wonder if now, faced with all the abuse that is going on, if the #MeToo folks are going to call for society to instill the values of self-control and modesty to be taught to our children to prevent this from happening in future generations.  Don't hold your breath.

In fact, they are doubling down.  This year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit addition honored the #MeToo movement by replacing the normal swimsuit models with naked models, on which they wrote #MeToo phrases.  The magazine said the women they are objectifying in this year's issue were allowed to pick the words to display on their bodies in the nude photos; as a means of empowering them.  Sports Illustrated editor MJ Day told Vanity Fair that she hopes the images will help change attitudes about how women are seen.

Are these people really this dense?  This was like providing an open bar to alcoholics as a sign of solidarity for the Alcoholics Anonymous program.  Not to mention this is a female editor objectifying other females in the name of empowering women.  It doesn't take a genius to see that rather than stemming the tide of sexual reprobates, those like Sports Illustrated, who say they are supporting the #MeToo movement, are enabling the distribution of the drug that motivates them.

Will there ever be a reckoning with the source of the problem rather than the product of it?  Unlikely.  Because those pointing out the crimes of others are snorting the same dope.

Ted Bundy, the mass rapist and murderer of young college girls, said in an interview with Dr. James Dobson the night before his execution, that he started with pornography and, as is the case with all addictions, pornography eventually wasn't enough for him and one thing led to the next until he ended up murdering young women. Bundy said in the interview, "out there are many, many more people who are addicted to pornography and you are doing nothing about that."  That interview was back in the 70's!  I wonder if the upcoming movie about Ted will illuminate the dangers of pornography?  Not likely.

I'm not saying that Harvey Weinstein would have become a murderer, but this sex addiction that is provided free of charge by our society is the same type of progressive addiction driving men to more and more reprehensible behavior.  How can this epidemic ever end when society points an accusing finger at the addicted men with one hand, while they simultaneously encourage the very environment that enables those men with the other?

Let's call this what it is; mass addiction to sex.  The fact that it has become so common that people talk about it on airplanes, does not change the nature of what it is.

The cure is simple and available.  Let's teach our young men the value of self-control and our young women the value self-respect and the problem will irradicate itself in the next generation.

Helaman 6:38
...BEGINNING at the more wicked part of them, until they had overspread all the land of the Nephites, and had seduced the more part of the RIGHTEOUS until they had come down to believe in their works and partake of their spoils... 

Alma 5:57 / 2 Corinthians 6:17
...Come ye out from the wicked, and be ye separate, and touch not their unclean things...

1 Corinthians 6:19
...Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God...