Discussion of sexual liberation

Our long discussion about women’s dress, the dominance of contemporary culture by the ethos and assumptions of sexual liberation, and mainstream conservatives’ automatic surrender to same, has wound down for the time being. For those who have been away from VFR for the last week, the discussion began in the entry, “The conservative Peter Hitchens’s kneejerk liberal comment on women’s dress,” and continued in the entry, “Sexual liberation and perversity have taken over the world and the toothpaste can’t be put back in the tube.”

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The last thread reached its maximum size, so I’ll post any further comments here.

Alan Roebuck writes:

“A sustained reading of Roissy’s site can be instructive” to a conservative like studying bank robbers can be instructive to a banker.

Robert B. writes:

Vishal wrote:

“I would remind you that Middle East has a great tradition of romantic love stories such as Laila Majnu (Arab), Shiri Farhad (Persia), Heer Ranjha (Punjab), which are similar to the story of Romeo Juliet.”

But that’s just the point—where the rest of the world has a few stories concerning romantic love, Western man has composed entire libraries on the subject. We are, simply put, different.

Alan Levine writes (sent August 22, posted August 28):

Followed the further comments on women’s dress with interest. I was struck by Sage McLaughlin’s remark, in passing, that men in the Netherlands are now not supposed to urinate standing up. I wonder if you could get her to enlarge on this point? I thought the Dutch were crazy, but this … Whatever justification or rationalization is being offered for this might be interesting, however.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 27, 2008 09:09 AM | Send