Up to the early 20th century in America, contraception was not only illegal, but the law was as vigorously defended then as extremist anti-abortionists example today. Contraception helps to reduce the transmission of STD's, and it also helps to reduce the number of women who may think to seek an abortion.
Although we all know that contraceptives are no guarantee to insure either as absolute. (reduced transmission of STD's & pregnancy)
Gender identity is not in my view a sexual issue. It is a mental health issue.
Case in point, in the DSM of the APA, Body Integrity Disorder, is similar to what is now labeled as Transgender, only in the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistics Manual it is called, Gender Dysphoria. The former mental condition is when a person looks at a body part of theirs and believes it is not actually their own. Or part of their anatomy.
The same can be said for what are Transgenders today. A man will consider his genitalia as wrong, not his own, and thinks he is actually a woman in the wrong body. The opposite is the case of women who believe they are meant to be male.
What is interesting in the case of the males with this disorder is, while they'll often seek to mutilate their body with breast implants and even what is called, jaw shaving, so as to make their facial structure more soft and feminine in appearance, allegedly Bruce Jenner had this procedure done, rarely do the afflicted males go all the way and have their male genitalia augmented into the female form.
The same in those lower regions with women who suffer the affliction.
Therefore, I do not see the Transdisorder as a sexual issue. It is purely a matter of mental illness.
As is homosexuality. And was so identified in the DSM's of earlier years until the APA were coerced to augment their "findings" on the matter due to terroristic threats and fear for their lives. A memo to this effect was once published on-line, released by a whistle blower who wanted the world to know the real cause behind the future publications of DSM, starting if I recall correctly, with DSM5.
Infidelity is as old as the scriptures. An outward sign of an inward decision. The adulterer no longer wants to be with their spouse. But the comforts marriage affords, or a faith system they actually don't respect or they wouldn't be sinning as an adulterer, lets them remain living the lie of fidelity. Jesus did not say it is absolutely forbidden to divorce. And even if He did, God forgives. Best to get out of a marriage that is killing you in every way but physically, and sometimes the really bad ones do go that route, and ask forgiveness than adhere to the vow, till death us do part, while dying daily on the inside because you're living in Hell with someone you despise.
Love yourself first! Get out! (my advice) When you hate him/her, you know you are no longer "in" love. And conversely , when you know they hate you, you know they aren't either.
Sex-Ed, I have no problem with. I've sat in on enough cases where stupid uneducated teens are on trial for murdering the baby the girl kept a secret from her extremist parents right up till she gave birth in a school John. And then strangled the baby, hid them in the trash and returned to her prom with the baby-daddy as they danced to their favorite song, then went home and acted as if nothing happened.
I'd rather have a girl give birth in a hospital, without her parents consent, and then sign the baby over to an adoption agency than tally the cost of a trial for Infanticide. Anyone, anyone, who thinks Sex-Ed in school will lead kids to have sex are so old they forget what it was like to be young, hormonal and frisky! Sex-Ed doesn't lead kids to have sex. It leads them to the understanding of what sex is, and what they can do to protect themselves and live through it in these times. Especially when super strain AIDS is in the world and kills victims in little less than two years, and there is no drug cocktail that extends one's life so as to avoid that inevitable end. You die! Fast and in horrific suffering.
Entertainment and Social Media= It is said that TV was first invented for the purpose of selling soap. Hence, early beginnings of what were called, soap operas.
Today we know TV programs our psyche. Visual and audio stimulation enter the subconscious that continually records every aspect of our life and without prejudice. Even when we're asleep the subconscious is recording everything in the room. Sounds, etc... This is why those who indulge themselves in deep drama will cry at the oddest times. Because a subconscious trigger earlier deposited in their emotional centers, physically, mentally and emotionally, responded again like unto what first enabled the recording.
This is why we're seeing an uptick in school shootings. First person graphically real video games desensitize a developing young mind to the horror of slaughter. Something they've never seen before in person, they're now committing by their own hand and right before their own eyes. And they're rewarded for it.
It stands to reason after hours and hours of this stimulus those mentally overrought, such as being constantly bullied, seek that outlet in real life. Because it is so satisfying in the game.
Social Media began as a mind control and passivity inducing experiment. The passivity range was the uptick after years of chemical alteration in our physiology due to the side effects of Fluoride. In all its delivery vehicles. Toothpaste, mouthwash, which draws the Fluoride chemicals into the bloodstream while in the mouth, and municipal water supply.
Social Media's evolution in popularity and influence is in direct accounting of Fluoride saturation in the affected populace. As well as other factors, such as the chemical agents in manufactured foods. To name just one other.
Basically, this world is following almost to the letter the end times prophecy of most every religion that teaches any measure of Eschatology to its faithful.
There are some who say Hell, as anyone would define it, is this world. And Salvation, is death.
Look at our "idols", our "gods", on any continent, in any culture. Their identity first and foremost most visible? Celebrity. And in America, like unto the Greek's pantheon, they too live on a Hill. Beverly Hills. The untouchables, that live better than their faithful (fans), and yet in many cases, are far more depraved in private.
It's life.
Don't worry, you'll get over it.
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