{"id":312511,"date":"2024-05-21T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312511"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:13:52","slug":"live-action-truth-sex-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/live-action-truth-sex-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Action&#8217;s &#8216;Truth About Sex&#8217; asks: &#8216;Why do we think the way we do about sex?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the second installment of Live Action\u2019s &#8220;The Truth About Sex&#8221; series, founder and president Lila Rose asks: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveaction.org%2F&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjQsMTY0NTAz&amp;feature=emb_share&amp;v=q4NjSY64PGk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why do you think the way you do about sex?<\/a>\u201d She explains that how we think about sex stems from how we think about ourselves \u2013 and we\u2019ve all been conditioned to think about ourselves in a certain way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rose states that according to the historian Carl Trueman, the current sexual ideology stems from three stages: first, the self became psychologized. Next, psychology became sexualized, and finally, sexuality became politicized. Rose explores these three stages in greater depth in the video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q4NjSY64PGk?si=GXnGuOor62ylSvmZ\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The self became psychologized<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first stage, in which the self became psychologized, people began being taught from an early age to become independent and create their own identity. Rose says that as this stage took hold, education was no longer about truth, but about learning how to express what we feel. This led to \u201cexpressive individualism\u201d \u2013 the belief that each person has a unique core feeling and intuition that should be expressed so individuality would be truly realized. In other words \u2013 \u201cyou are what you feel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rose notes that we\u2019ve been training kids from the earliest ages to be expressive individualists \u2013 meaning their highest obligation and sense of self is their personal feelings. This differs from using human nature and morality as guides of human happiness. It also redefines the definition of love, as it says love is no longer about the objective good about the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She explains that expressive individualism gives the individual limitless power to reject any correction from anyone else. It affects not just how we see ourselves, but also our relationships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Psychology became sexualized\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this next stage, Rose explains that people are conditioned to believe that their identities are defined by their sexual desires. This movement was largely promulgated by Sigmund Freud, who said sexual desires are the <em>core<\/em> of who we are. It&#8217;s largely what we see today, as young people are taught to use their sexual urges as their first designations of identity, whether that be straight, gay, bi, or something else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Rose says that sexual desires aren\u2019t <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you are. \u201cLove is broader than what our sexual urges might be,\u201d she explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sexuality became politicized<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If any sexual desires become a person\u2019s identity, Rose says it follows that people believe those identities should be afforded special political rights. It then becomes the job of the government to protect whatever someone\u2019s sexual identity is; i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f anyone disagrees, they are considered bigoted or hateful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/live-action-truth-sex-world-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Live Action debuts \u2018The Truth About Sex\u2019 series with the story of a world-changing \u2018revolution\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the video, Rose says that the flow of these three steps is how society has gotten to where it is today \u2013 a society in which people are confused about both their identity and reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf your understanding of yourself and of reality is all in your feelings, and not in the whole of nature and your human nature, if your body\u2019s own genitals and reproductive function isn\u2019t \u2018you\u2019, but you can somehow be a big mistake, then you can come to believe all sorts of crazy things,\u201d she explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe solution,&#8221; she says, &#8220;is to rediscover a robust understanding of natural law morality. 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