Desperately lonely people post on Craigslist their wishes to fool around even with total strangers. Hook-ups happen without so much as a thought.
Booty calls are now the norm on college campuses. Such a moralistic bent has certainly yielded disastrous results, and in light of our Western philosophical reservations about the supernatural and the spiritual realm, phenomena impossible to measure with empirical, scientific experimentalism nor do they fit neatly into the categories in which we typically think, the spirituality of sex has all but evaporated from our understanding and the rebellion against the harsh laundry list of moral do’s and don’ts our parents and churches gave us continues to skyrocket unfettered by even the mildest form of self-restraint. Dreher further contends that we have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the fight and, to borrow a line from author Phillip Rieff, argues that Christian institutions have “fail to communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling” and so much of culture has been lost, especially when it pertains to sex. As Rod Dreher noted two years ago in his prophetic essay “Sex After Christianity,” when sex is the subject at hand, the tack that Christians have employed in the public square has been primarily a moralistic one-an approach that has proven to be completely ineffective-and given the rapid increase of the legal enshrinement of the sexual revolution and the proliferating epidemic of heartache, relational dysfunction, and rampant divorce we see everywhere, even in some of our churches, he urges orthodox believers of all Christian traditions to rediscover sexuality in its proper cosmological context. No cultural division today is fraught with more confusion, bitterness, and deep pain than the current divide over the nature of marriage and human sexuality.
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