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Morals are a set of principles that govern how humans conduct themselves. All societies must have rules that govern or regulate sexual behavior of the members of that society. Sexual behavior is the ability to distinguish right from wrong, being sexually virtuous, and having principles. There is a direct link between morals and social structure, and the rules vary from culture to culture. Patriarchal societies have the strongest sanctions against premarital sex, while the Kalyptic societies have the least sanctions against sexual activities. Patriarchal societies are like the Traditionalists, while Kalyptic societies are like the Libertarians in their beliefs about sexual morality.

The "sexual revolution" in the 1960s led to casual sex, pregnant teens, unwed mothers and fathers of all ages, singles bars, one-night stands, teen sex, group sex, swingers, divorces, open marriages, cohabitation, incest, pornography, sexual abuse, rape, AIDS, abortions, STDS, and alternate sexual preferences. Traditional sexual morality was breaking down. Olen, & Barry (1996). Gay people were starting to come out of their closets. They were interested in casual sex, and some of them wanted as many sex partners as they could get. A number of the men were promiscuous, and they went from one lover to another without using protection. AIDS came along and killed off a lot of gay people, and no one is safe from its effects. Now if people do not use protection they could die. It really is a matter of life or death. Hippies and flower children were doing their own thing. They were into drugs and casual sex. The music of the time was telling kids that sex was great and go out and do it. It never told them that they might die from doing it.

When discussing sexual morality it is evident that their are two very different view points. On one side there is the Traditionalist view and on the other is the Libertarian view. The Traditionalist believes that sex has a specific meaning, which is to get married and have a lot of children. While the Libertarian think it has no meaning, or it can mean anything a person wants it to mean. A person does not have to be married to have sex. The Libertarians feel that the only restrictions that should be placed on sexual activity are, that the people involved are honest, open, non-coercive, do not exploit the other person, and do not hurt anyone. Do we need a new standard? Have sexual morals gone to far the other way? Should there be a new morality?

Traditionalist were alarmed at the changes in sexual morality over the last one hundred years. They worried about family life, society, and the future of their children (Olen & Barry,1996). They worry about how divorce, rape, incest, prostitution, pornography, birth control, sexual deviance, and alternate life styles will effect the family. They worry about how gay marriages will effect family life. Traditionalists think that gay people are evil and that they are sinning against god. They believe marriage is only for opposite sex couples. They do not believe same sex couples should be allowed to be married or to have children.

In the on-line paper "The Western Sexual Morality," St. Paul said that no man or woman should touch each other. In other words celibacy is better than getting married, and he thought that the human body was meant for the lord, and it was not meant for human pleasure. St. Paul knew that he was asking people to suppress their human nature, but human nature will not be suppressed. He also knew that if marriage was not allowed, then people would have sex outside marriage. So he thought the lesser of the two evils would be to let people marry, because he thought it would be better then burn in hell for fornicating. Next, came St. Augustine who believed that sex was shameful, and celibacy, and chastity were of higher morality than being married was.

During the Victorian Era they were more interested in how to rechannel sex into loftier ends. Masturbation was thought to be bad, it wasted mans seed, and that was sinful. Victorian men did not have sex outside of marriage, and they were considerate in expressing their sexuality in marriage. How do they know that men did not have sex outside of marriage? Back in those days, people did not talk about what they did in the bedroom. Neither the man nor the woman were supposed to enjoy sex, but the women were suppose to endure it, but they were not supposed to encourage it. It was a duty of a Victorian wife to submit to her husband's sexual desires. The husband would have been intimidated if his wife had enjoyed sex. The husband had to have the upper hand.

The Western Sexual Morality article went on to say that during the 19th century sexual morality was thought to be degrading, sex for pleasure was thought to be sinful, and the only reason to have sex was to have children. The 20th century did not change the view of Traditionist regarding sex. They still believed sex to be inherently evil. The problem with the Traditionalist was that they tried to suppress peoples natural urges. The only problem with that is, that those urges are natural and they are meant to continue the species, so they cannot be suppressed. The Church lost its influence, a separation between the state and the Church took place, and the people revolted against the Church.

The Traditionalist view of ethics includes, engaging in love to their full capacity with the person they love, being honest, sincere, caring, being open, being communicative with their loved one, committing to each other, fidelity to their loved one, and being respectful of each other. The Traditionalist see a difference between the way people have respectful, honest, committed, and loving relationships while animals have meaningless mating behaviors. Animals are not capable of the kind of relationship that man has with the one he/she loves. Animals are just doing what nature intended them to do (Olen & Barry,1996). Lombardo (1997) tells us that sexual intimacy inspires us to bond, which is a very good thing in the context of marriage, but it can easly destroy a dating relationship.

In the 1990's, Traditionalists still view sex outside of marriage as wrong. They have not changed their ideas in the last hundred years. Aristotle influenced the Catholic Churches moral teaching and his ideas were incorporated into the doctrine of the Church. What the Church really wanted to do was to control the people. The Catholic Church believes the natural purpose of sex is for reproduction, and all forms of birth control are immoral. They believe that sex is only appropriate in marriage. The Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1984) says that if a woman was a virgin until she married she would uphold the family "honor" by going from her father to her husband as unspoiled goods, and this guaranteed that the children would be her husband's. How do they know she had not had sex? She might have had sex, but she might not have gotten pregnant. Olen & Barry (1996). What about women to old to have children? What about people unable to have children? What about the elderly population? What are they suppossed to do? They might have been married young, and their husband dies, and they decide they do not want to be married again. They might not want children, does that mean they cannot get married?

Fog (1996a) tells us that midwives knew about peoples sexual behaviors so they were burned as witches, because they had knowledge of different methods of birth control and abortion. They were thought to be deviants, and the people in that society claimed that these women practiced witchcraft. Fog (1996b) says that according to anthropologist the people thought they need to be controlled or killed. Women were kept ignorant about sex and reproduction, which was thought to be the right of the husband. Children were wanted because they could work the farm or they could work in another business and make money. They could help their mother with the cooking and their father with the crops. This gave their parents an economic incentive to have more children to make more money.

Lee (1998) reports that some of the problems that come with suppressing natural sexual urges are guilt, rebellion, rigidity, repression of sexual feelings, depression, sexual dysfunction, being unable to enjoy sexual satisfaction, not being able to feel sexual arousal, and mental illness. She also says that guilt is one of the most destructive elements in mental illness. She goes on to say that sex and religion are connected by guilt. She points out that some people believe that religion and sex are in conflict, but there is evidence to support the idea that they scriptures have been twisted around to support a religious and sexual conflict.

When a person is in conflict about sex and religion they can suffer in several different ways. Their body might not respond to sexual stimulus, they might not have an orgasm, they might be unable to perform, and they might not be able to have sex because they feel guilty. If they have been sexually abused they might not be able to enjoy sex at all or they might be having sex as much as they can to make themselves feel good. They usually end up with very low self-esteem. If they have sex with someone they do not know, or even someone they think they know, they could get AIDS and other STDS. There are a lot of STDS that they could get, and than they wonder if anyone will want sex with them if they get a STD. Some of them feel fear and anger that they caught an STD, and some spread it from one partner to another, because they want to get back at the sex that gave them the disease. The law has stepped in and made it a crime to infect other people with STDS on purpose. McNaught (1986) tells us that the AIDS crisis is one reason why gays are more visible now, and the AIDS epidemic has brought the gay community together to fight AIDS. He also says that the younger generation do not know what it is to feel fear, isolation, and alienation, but what about the people living with AIDS, do not they feel the same fear, and isolation that older generations did? The fear of AIDS has made some people use protection, but their are still a number of people who do not use any kind of protection. Do the advertisements about safe sex really work? Will peoples attitudes about casual sex change after enough people die?

Traditionalist think pornography is evil and a sin against god. The Diagram Group say that the impact of sexually-explicit materals and pornograpy on the American public is tremendous. They also say that pornography is clearly correlated with sex crimes, pornographic exposure, and it has been found that many pedophiles see it on the internet more than people who are not pedophiles. The internet has a lot of adult sites and many traditionalists want to do away with all types of pornography. They do not want their children to see it. They feel it might corrupt their children and they feel that it is degrading to women. The Diagram Group reports that current literature is either clinically cold on the subject of sex, or it is very titillating and pornographic, which is much like the view points of the Traditionalists and Libertarians. Hite (1981) reports that sex is a symbol of male ownership and domination. Rape and buying pornography of women has been a part of that same male sex drive for a long time. Why is it thought that only men want to dominate? Women have sex drives too. Rape is not something that is connected to peoples sex drive, instead it involves domination and power, and it is not a biological urge. People have control over their own sex drive, and they choose to rape women and children.

Barrett (1997) tells us that Adult web sites have virtual sex and make big profits, while corporate home pages tabulate hits in the thousands, some top adults sites gather hits in the millions. Some of these sites offer pictures of young children, and in some cases the owners of these sites have been arrested for transporting obscene materials over the interstate phone lines.

Vice President Al Gore wants computers in every school, and every child hooked up to the internet, but this has families worried about their children being exposed to child molesters who hang out in chat rooms, and cyberporn that is available to children. Elmer Dewiti (1995) reports that the parents feel that unless their there all the time to watch their children, they fear the children will get into the porn sites, and most of the children are to young to handle the emotions it might bring up. Sometimes the molesters go into chat rooms and lure the children in to meeting them. Children have been raped and killed by some of these monsters. The Traditionalists would like to see the cyberporn, books, videos, films, tv, and perfume advertisements outlawed. They would like to see the Anti-Cyber Bill and the Communications Decency Act passed. The Libertarians were outraged. They called it "government censorship" and they do not want any censorship of the internet. They said that it was a violation of their rights as adults to be able to talk with each other, and it also violated their right to free speech. Pornography was around in Victorian times. In London, there were 57 shops that had opened by 1834. Walker (1988) found that child molesters use pornography when there were no children around to molest. Men use magazines for the purpose of sexual gratification and for use with fantasies involving pictures of children. How do we protect children from these predators? Are the traditionalist right in wanting to ban pornography, or should we have free speach? Where do the rights of one side start and the rights of the other sides end?

Sexual suppression started the sexual revolution. The Church had suppressed sex for a long time. The Church told the people that they should be celibate, and if they could not be celibate they had to get married. This was intended to stop or suppress peoples natural urges,but all it did was drive them underground, and a new morality emerged which went to the other extreme of unrestricted sexual freedom. The Libertarian movement started from the sexual revolution. Libertarians thought sex was just for the fun of it, unlike the Traditionalists, the Libertarians believed that sex had no meaning.

An article in The Western Sexual Morality tells us that between 1900 and 1930 the population in urban areas grew, corporations became more powerful, and government started to take over maintaining social order. They targeted sexual behavior as one area for reform. Evidence was collected that showed that the key changes in sexual activity were occurring, and the government intervened with debates about birth control, crusades against prostitutes and prositiution, they raised the age of consent, and they made different kinds of legislation about sexual behavior. Should government have any say in what people do in the privacy of their bedroom?

In an article by Holloway (1998) called "Tending to Deviancy: Sexual Morality and Public Policy in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia," it is reported that in the 1960s morals were left up to the individual, and they could indulge in instand sexual gratification if they wanted too. They said the age of the Libertarians had arrived. They tell us that the idea of the flower children was born, and they preached "free love". They also said that Elvis made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, but they only showed him from the waist up. The Traditionalists believed he would corrupt the morals of the public, but the Libertarians had no problem with his sexy movements.

In an on-line article called "Mental Relapse" back in the 1960s, it was found that a concern of the Traditionalists was that the birth control pill would corrupt peoples morals more than they already were corrupted. The Libertarians believed it would liberate them and give them more freedom to enjoy sex without having to worry about an unwanted pregnancy. The Traditionalists worried that the pill would lead to promiscuity, but the Libertarians had no problem with promiscuity. If the individual wanted to have sex with as many people as he/she could the Libertarian did not care. The Traditionalists thought that the pill would lead to young women indulging in premarital sex.

The Libertarian perspective is much like the Traditionalist perspective on ethical behavior up to a point. They both include the person being honest with their partner, non-coercive, they believe that people should use safe sex methods, they believe in not being exploitative with another person, and not violating other obligations like marriage, that people may have toward others. The Libertarian only puts a few moral restrictions on sex, but the Traditionalist has a lot of restrictions.

Traditionalist believe in sex only if the people are married, but the Libertarians have no such belief.  The hippies believed in free everything. They wanted free sex, and the freedom to do drugs. They did not want the Traditionalists telling them what they could or could not do. They did not care about STDS, and they did not have any such things as AIDS to have to worry about until the 1980's. They wanted the same freedom that animals had. They wanted to do what they wanted, when they wanted to, and with whomever they wanted to do it with. Men fathered babies and left the mothers to take care of the babies on their own, while he went around fathering more children that he did not want to take the responsibility for.

Back in the days before AIDS most STDS were treatable. With the advent of new antibiotics it was possible to treat such diseases as gonorrhea, and syphilis, which were the worst STDS around at the time. Before people started getting AIDS they did not worry about getting STDS, because now they knew they could get a pill to take care of the problem. They did not know that a new and incurable disease called genital herpes had arrived on the scene in the 1970s. It was not a disease that killed people, but the Libertarians started thinking about their sexual partners and sexual morals. In the 1980s a very bad disease that can kill people showed upon the scene, and it was called AIDS. It was called the gay disease, but it was later found out that anyone could get it, and it was not just a disease that gay people got. The Traditionalist looked at this disease as a message from god that the gay life style was wrong. It was also seen as a warning to the Libertarians that they needed to go back to the moral teachings of the Church. There is no known cure for AIDS at this time, but they are testing different vaccines and they hope to find one that will work soon.

AIDS raises concerns about sexual morality. Sexual promiscuity increases the risk of AIDS for everyone. Libertarians agree that people need to protect themselves and use safe sex methods like condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. The Traditionalist believe that people should retreat from promiscuity and go back to the traditional sexual morals. The Libertarian believes that monogamous relationships between unmarried people is as safe as it is among married people. Some people do not believe they even need to be monogamous, as long as they do not have sex with high risk groups of people (Olen & Barry,1996). The only trouble with that idea is that anyone who has had sex with anyone else is a member of the high risk group, and the more partners that person has had the higher the risk. How can you tell if someone is in the high risk group? In most cases you cannot.

Libertarians believe that each individual should be left to determine how they feel about sex, provided they do not hurt anyone else, and they do not adhere to any one type of sexual morality. Sex between two consenting adults is a private matter and it should be left up to the individuals conscience. What the individual does in private might be private but the social ramifications are far reaching and effect everyone (Olen & Barry, 1996).

The trouble with letting people do what they want to do is that they can get AIDS from unprotected sex, spread it to other people, and that can lead to their infecting a large part of their society. They might feel that they will never find someone to love them or to take care of them if they get sick. They can have unwanted pregnancies, and if the fathers leaves without supporting his children, then all the people of that society have to take care of them. If the woman does get pregnant she has to face the problem of abortion. No method of birth control is 100% reliable. She might feel guilty if she decides to abort the baby, but she has the choice to do so if she wants too.

When there is no love to hold people together there is no stability in the relationship they have. A number of people use the word love to mean anything they want it to mean. A lot of people do not know what real love means. Sometimes when a couple first meets they think they are in love, but it is not love at first sight, it is lust at first sight. The Libertarian thinks this is ok, but the Traditionalist thinks it is a sin. Traditionalist think that lust is distructive to relationships, because it is "me" centered instead of "we" centered, and it leads to the end of most relationships. Olen & Barry report that when people treat sex like it is just a fun activity they miss out on the importance of personal fulfillment and growth.

Miller (1997) tells us that Libertarians are more excepting of the gay life style than Traditionalists are. It also states that Libertarians think that there should be equal treatment for all people no matter what group they belong too. It says that gays seem to understand the libertarians view of sexual freedom, and the Libertarians arguements for gay equality seem to please them. The Libertarians think the gays should be free beings and they are not play things of the state. Gays feel it is time that they were given equal rights under the law. They are using all their power to get the states to approve of same sex marriages.

Libertarians feel that people have the right to feel pleasure through sexual experiences, but they do not say how many people, or what sex the people are, nor do they say if these people should engage in sex with each other or not. Olen & Barry (1996), write about Libertarians having the goal of sex just to satisfy the need for human touch. He thinks that sex is entered into with the only goal of having a pleasurable experience. His argument might be seen as supporting all kinds of sexual activity with groups of people, same sex partners, swingers, and alternate sexual morals. Some counterpoints to this might be that group sex, and swingers might spread diseases among the group they are in. People who practice alternate sexual morality, might be perverted people, who molest children. Same sex partners are not likely to stay together, they could have many partners, and they could spread AIDS through the population. The Libertarians point out that Traditionalists want to go back to the way things used to be, but the hands of time cannot be turned around. On the outside they would look like they were faithful monogamists who might or might not be heterosexual, but they could be involved in all kinds of perversion on the sly. As an argument against that point of view, the Traditionalist would say that adultery, promiscuity, sex outside of marriage, and homosexuality are more prevalent than the have ever been before. Once they are accepted and they start going public, other people will see that it is accepted, and that will be the end of the family. They are afraid that if homosexuals get approval from the culture they are in than everyone will want to try homosexuality, group sex, swinging, and other deviant behavior. How do they know this is true?

We all have rights, but we also have responsibilities to others. There are some things we can do in private that we should not do in public. We should try not to hurt other people and take them into consideration when we do something that might effect them. It is all riight for a person to sun bath in the nude if they do it in a place where other people will not see them. We do this out of consideration and respect for others. If the person was at a nudist colony they could go bare anytime they wanted too. They might be considered to be odd if they did not go nude in the nudist colony. But that does not mean that I have to go nude just because they are. If I live next door I would expect them to put up a wall so I do not have to see the nudist. If they put up a wall that would be an ethical consideration for sparing me embarrassment, and discomfort from having to see them in the nude.

Traditionalist believe in celibacy, but if one cannot be celibate, then one must marry. They believed that the only reason for sex was to have children, and it has a specific meaning. This would insure the survival of the species. Just because these people marry to have sex does not mean they love each other. The traditionalists are to strict and try to control peoples sex drive. It did not work back in the old days, and it will not work now. The Libertarians went to the opposite direction and they thought that if it felt good and no one got hurt there was no problem. Back in the 1960s casual sex led to teen pregnancies, one-night stands, group sex, swinging, cohabitation, pornography, rape, and promiscuity. They were into drugs and casual sex. It was the use or be used generation. The Libertarian thought that sex has no meaning or it means whatever the people involved want it to mean. The author thinks that we need a new standard and morality. Neither side has proven that their sexual morals work for everyone. Sex without love is meaningless, and it lowers mans morals down to the animals level. Morals have gone from one extreme to the other. A new morality might be called for in the late 1990s. One where people find someone who they care about to have an open, communicative, loving, monogamous, equal, supportive, caring, respectful, sharing, sexual relationship with, and maybe it will lead to marriage or a long term relationship. Both people need to learn what love is. No more relationships where people use other people and leave them. It would be good for people to get to know their partner before they sleep with them. Adults need to show their children what a healthy relationship looks like. Sex is something special to be shared with someone you love. It is one of the gifts we give each other. It is not a recreational sport that we play with anyone who will play with us. There is no satisfaction in that. If sex has no meaning what meaning does life have?

The Traditionalist thinks that they should be able to regulate everything that they think is bad. They want to censor the internet and books, music, and many other things. How many things are they going to censor? What are they going to censor? If they censor what they want will the public be able to do anything about it? The Libertarians feel that no one should interfere with their right to free speech. They think they should be able to do what they want as long as no one gets hurt. How do they know if anyone is getting hurt or not? What will happen to law and order if everyone can do as the please? A better way to handle it would be to try to reach a happy medium between the two sides.

Author's note. I tried a list server group and I did not get any thing from them. I got more from the ones I found on the net.

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Barrett, R. (1997). Adult Web Sites: Virtual Sex, Real Profits. [on-line]. Available: Link

This site is about Adult sex sites. It tells how our culture views women and sex. It tells us that these sites are going to push sex as far as they can. It says that sex is everywhere, and it is a big money making business. There are more women on the business end of it than there are men.

Elmer-Dewiti, P. (1995). On a screen near you: Cyberporn. [on-line]. Available: Link

This site tells us that porn sells, it is everywhere, and on everything. Men are the biggest consumers. About 98% of the consumers of porn are men. Some of this porn involves children, young teens, and animals. It invades our culture, and no child is safe from it. The Traditionalists are for censorship on the internet and everywhere else. The Libertarians say that would be taking away their rights, they want free speech, and the right to see or do what they want.

Fog, A. (1996a). Cultural Selection: Sociology of Deviance. Ch 8. [on-line]. Available: Link

This site gives a cultural background to the time when midwives knew about birth control and abortion. The men of that time did not want women to have any control so they burned these women as witches.

Fog, A. (1996b). Cultural Selection: Sexual Behaviors. Ch 9. [on-line]. Available: Link

This site tells the reader about the sexual behaviors of the Traditionalists, and that they felt that people should wait until they get married to have sex. The Traditionalist believed in being chaste, but if one could not be chaste that they had to get married. It tells about the STDS that man has caught, because he had sex before he got married. It tells about the different beliefs the Traditionalists have on different subjects.

Holloway, P. (1998). Tending to Deviancy: Sexual Morality and Public Policy in Richmond and Norfolk, Varginia, 1930-1956. [on-line]. Available: Link

This site tells one about the "Progressive Era" when the urban population was growing. It tells about how the government took over maintaining control and social order. Sexual behavior was one of those areas they took control of. It tells about how the criminal justice system grew. The Division of Venereal Disease Control was funded by government to stop the spread of STDS. This is a great cultural and historical site.

Lee, C. (1998). The Hidden Effects of Sexual Guilt. [on-line]. Available: Link

This site tells one of the psychology involved with guilt. It tells why a person suffers with guilt after they have had sex without being involved with the person. It tells us that the two most important things to people are sex and religion. Religion has always been strict about not having sex until the people involved are married. This did not work. Some people called Traditionalists decided to have sex with anyone, anywhere, and anytime, but not if it hurt anyone. This did not work out any better than the Traditionalists belief that one should wait until they are married to have sex.

Lombardo, N. (1997). The Next Sexual Revolution: Nicholas Lombardo takes a fresh look at traditional values. [on-line]. Available: Link

This is a great site that tells us about relationships and how people bond when they have sex. It is better to have sex after you are married, they tell us, because the bond will keep you together and have meaning. He says that people who wait until they get married are more likely to stay married. It tells us that STDS are at an all time high, and people should love someone, and get married first, before they have sex. It will help stop the spread of diseases, but it might help.

Mental Relaps...Back in the 1960s. [on-line]. Available: Link

This is a very short paper, but it tells us from a cultural perspective what the 1960s were all about. It was the anything goes generation. Elvis was swing his pelvis and teens were getting excited. The birth control pill was available and it was used a lot.

Miller, S. (1997). The Libertarian Imparative. [on-line]. Available: Link

This link tells us about the Libertarians view on gays and lesbians. They were more tolerant than the Traditionalists were. They feel the states have no right to tell people what they can and cannot do in their bedrooms.

Morals. (1998). [on-line]. Available: Link

In this paper one is told what morals involve. It tells us to never deceive another person, and people should live by the golden rule. Morals were thought of as virtues, but today they are regarded as a collection rules of how one should behave.

The Western Sexual Morality. (1998). [on-line]. Available: Link

This is a great site for historical information on the cultural shift in America. The Traditionalists were too strict. They wanted people to wait until they got married to have sex. They pretended to do what the Church said, but secretly they had sex. People finally revolted, and they wanted a more open liberated style of sex. In the 1960s the people believed in free love, sex, and drugs.