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The Sexual "Revolution" - the massive downside

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RintFreez · 30/08/2020 19:38

Its often with a sinking heart I read OP threads on here e.g. my partner watches camgirls, am I wrong to feel this is wrong? Or my boyfriend demands "x" in bed, is this wrong? Is my sex life too "vanilla"?

Anyway, I read an article in The Cut "How a Predator Operated in Plain Sight" about Jeffrey Epstein that seemed to explain the downsides of the Sexual Revolution more clearly, something I've often had an uncomfortable feeling about, especially in recent years with porn so "out there" and defining women's looks (shaved) and fashion and sexual behaviour. Yeah, women got the Pill and abortion, but it also meant men could have sex without feeling or responsibility, if they chose, and lets be honest, women often left with the £250 abortion fee or bringing up their single parent child via the Welfare State (been there, done it I should add Sad).

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rvby · 31/08/2020 16:59

[quote RomeoLikedCapuletGirls]@NiceGerbil your “subversion” post, I couldn’t agree more.

I guess having a father doesn't matter? Children aren't possessions created to fulfill women, they're human beings in their own right who thrive best in a loving home with both of their parents.

Says who? It’s only recently in human history that fathers have taken a role in their children’s upbringing.

I believe that the more people that love the child the better, and that can certainly include the father and yes fathers should have rights if they have shouldered responsibilities, but really, to imagine that the nuclear family with the father there is the optimal one is to ignore most of human history.[/quote]
Agree, and my eyes nearly rolled out of my head when I read that shite about a "loving home with both their parents".

Having 2 parents in a home, having parents who live together, having only one marriage in a lifetime, having fathers involved in childbearing... these are all VERY recent inventions in the western world. And many, many cultures do not and have never had these ideas.

And their children still grow up, live lives, and are mostly happy, productive, whatever metric of success their culture has.

Anyone bleating about "two parents in the home!!1!" is just another sleepwalker who hasn't yet learned how to think and will doubtless pour more nonsense down the ears of their children, which will in turn cause the very social problems they imagine are caused by sexual liberation

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