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Modern Sex and Gender Roles

Are we becoming more androgynous in modern times? Why?

I just read an interesting article, Making Men Dispensable that suggests men are becoming unnecessary to women for any reason. The article covers several interesting topics on sex and gender roles, so take a second and read it. The question is why are the roles changing? The author points to biotechnology, feminism and the media, but I think she’s missing the bigger picture. For example:

Hugh Hefner has succeeded in his mission: with the assistance of biotechnology, a generation or two of males has been transformed into a gigolo cult. Free from responsibility, the male is able to revel in his ‘sexuality’ and find love wherever he pleases. Unfortunately, all this ‘free’ indulgence comes with a price: the twenty-first century male finds himself good for nothing else than to render his services as a stud.

The logical consequences of the contraceptive mentality (the Pill, IVF, cloning, parthenogenesis) seem to indicate that there is no biological urge for monogamy and parenthood. Instead, we have been convinced that everyone has a right to sexual experimentation, and to force gender roles upon men and women is a heinous imposition. Tiger believes that “One major result of newly heightened paternity seems clear: Men are less willing than ever in history to marry single women who become pregnant”(49). Biotechnology opened the floodgates of sexual license, and with this, a move towards making men expendable. The Pill has provided unfathomed possibilities for men in search of sexual experience.

The only answer is the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexuality and the Pope’s Theology of the Body. Let me know what you think if you read the article. It’s actually pretty interesting. Thanks to Quenta Narwenion for pointing it out.

God bless,
Jay