The McDonaldization of Sex 1 (Sex and Christianity 10)

June 06, 2012 by Tim Muldoon

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Both Ritzer and Ricoeur recognized that rationality in human affairs only goes so far. Applying their observations to contraception, signs of massive cultural change begin to emerge. We have made sexual imagery and sexual behavior ubiquitous and de rigueur for everyone beginning in early adolescence. Sex is social capital, but in this context the messy—yet beautiful—negotiation of real relationship is lost. We are having more orgasms, but we are losing the ability to love each other in ways that give life meaning. We may be going the way of Japan and losing interest in real interpersonal relationships altogether.

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Tim Muldoon holds a Ph.D. in Catholic systematic theology and is an award-winning author and Catholic theologian of the new evangelization.

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