Hello readers. Well it is Movie Saturday! As mentioned in a previous post, it is February; The Month of Love. Keeping with that theme, today we will look at Valentine’s Day. It is set to release February 12th; just in time for, well, Valentine’s Day. Below is the synopsis found here.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift.
Valentine’s Day follows the intertwining story-lines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine’s Day.
The topic I want to talk about today in relation to this movie is sex. That’s right. This is the first blog post I have made on this topic. I don’t even care if I lose readers over it. The following is part of a blog post I read a while back. It is taken from a friend of mine.
From what i can tell, the movie is all about relationships and feelings and love and…couples hooking up. And as I watched the preview, I found myself getting really agitated. Not at the movie, but at people who are going to watch the movie and not be bothered by it.
Couples having sex outside of marriage is not much of a big deal anymore. It hasn’t been for years. It’s pretty much expected…in the movies…on television…in the music we listen to…at school…in the workplace…in the neighborhood… in bathroom stalls and underneath restaurant tables and in the back seats of cars.
Geez, some parents even express relief when they find out their teenagers are having sex… “at least he’s not gay”…or, “at least they remembered to put on condoms.” What?
Real men speak of their sexual conquests. Teenage girls still squeal at the sight of a hot looking guy. Women dress to draw men’s attention. Guys are losers if they are still virgins by the time they reach college.
Look, i’m no sexual prude. I understand this is the 21st century. We are the highly enlightened élite. We apparently know better now. I guess…
Also, I suppose we are the products of the slow erosion of morality in our world. We are disensitized. We’ve seen too much. We’ve heard it all. We see sex outside of marriage in our sports heroes and our favorite movie stars and our rock gods and our politicians and our teachers and our church leaders and our children and our best friends. And we shrug our shoulders and go about our business.
So here’s what i’m agitated about: Most married people I know have no idea why God designed sex for married people only. They can’t articulate the logic in God’s plan.
People ask, “If sex is such a great thing, why does god want me to wait until i’m married?”…or, “Why would god say that something so good is wrong? This is what people who love each other do!”…or, “What’s the big deal? we’re not hurting anybody…”
We tell our young people to wait for sex. They ask us “why?” We tell them that god says so in the Bible. They ask us to tell them where it says that…and we say, “I don’t know. It just does.” Really? Is that the best we can do?
Here’s what i’m saying. Married people need to stand up for marriage…the sanctity of marriage…the sacredness of the act of sex…the holiness of the union between a husband and a wife.
I’m not talking about civil union. I’m talking about what it truly means to be one flesh.
I totally agree with all of that. What are your thoughts?
Until next time readers, God Bless!
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Very true! I share the concern (agitation) of the writer. Unfortunately, marriage and sex has been cheapened. It is a sad commentary to know that it isn’t so far outside the mainstream to accept the concept of “friends with benefits.”
Sex is a God-given gift that is intended to bring a deep, spirit-level union between a man and woman. Because it is intended for such a union, it is misplaced in a relationship that is not intended to be life-long. Sex carries with it a permanent connection. When applied to a temporary or, at best, an uncertain relationship without a life-long commitment, sex wasted and polluted pleasure…an end in itself, rather than a means to an end.
So true! I’m appreciative of the fact that you posted about this topic. The Church at large seems to have become quiet on such an important topic. It doesn’t understand that because sex was an original part of God’s good plan!
And I agree about the movie. People seem to be so excited about going to see it because of the “amazing cast” but is it really worth it – to be bombarded with ungodly images and ideas that slowly erode our biblical mindset toward sex, marriage, dating, and even friendships between people of the opposite sex?