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New Nancy Pearcey book: Does naturalism drive the scandals in tech culture?

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From Soul of Science co-author (with Charles Thaxton) Nancy R. Pearcey at Fox News,

Silicon Valley’s drug-fueled, secret sex parties — One more reason to hate the hookup culture

Before reaching campus, students are primed by high school sex education courses that typically focus on the physical: on the mechanics of sex and the avoidance of disease and pregnancy.

These courses reduce the meaning of sex to a how-to manual. Many students even say the programs make them feel pressured into having sex. In one study, teens reported that they felt more pressure from their sex education classes than from their girlfriends or boyfriends.

Other segments of adult culture are complicit in sexualizing children at ever-younger ages. Dolls for little girls have morphed into “tramps” wearing fishnet stockings and red-hot lingerie. Corporations produce slut-style fashions all the way down to infant clothing that says “I’m Too Sexy for My Diaper.” Advertisers use sex to sell, filmmakers use sex to entice viewers, musicians film raunchy videos.

As I put it in my book “Love Thy Body,” at the root of moral issues is the question: What kind of cosmos do we live in? Are we products of blind material forces? Or does the natural world reflect some kind of purpose – and behind it, a Person who loves us and has a purpose for our lives? More.

At one time, sexualizing young children was considered a form of child abuse. That wasn’t even very long ago.

The op-ed introduces Pearcey’s new book, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality

See also: Podcasts: Nancy Pearcey on humans as robots, freeloading from religion

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And it's not naturalism that is behind the sex scandals so much as just human nature.Seversky
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These courses reduce the meaning of sex to a how-to manual. Many students even say the programs make them feel pressured into having sex. In one study, teens reported that they felt more pressure from their sex education classes than from their girlfriends or boyfriends.
I'd be interested to know where they conducted that study. When I was at school the problem wasn't being pressured by sex education classes, the problem was stopping them doing it before they got to the classes.Seversky
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