Christian Post: Nobody Says “Making Love” Anymore

The Christian Post reports:

There has been an interesting shift in English idiom over recent years from the language of “making love” to that of “having sex.” The former — which today may even sound a little quaint — speaks of an act that can only take place between two people who know and love each other and which has at its core the act of giving. It is deeply relational and the parties involved are selves, not merely bodies.

That this phrase has been supplanted by the latter, which requires no necessary relationship between the parties and connotes not giving but taking, reflects a foundational change in social attitudes to sex that rest upon radical therapeutic individualism. Others have become instruments, means to one’s own selfish end. One can only make love to a lover. But one can have sex with anybody. Or indeed any body.

Read the full article. As you’ll see at the link, the bulk of the piece is devoted to attacking Dennis Prager’s “troubling defense” of porn, which Prager says is “not awful” when used by husbands as long as they’re still faithfully fucking their wives. Seems like Prager has been making love to his hand. Below, check the warning that precedes the trailer to the 1982 film, Making Love.

Dennis Prager’s troubling defense of pornography https://t.co/GhHohZXB4w

— The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) May 12, 2023