Once upon a time you had to publicly admit that you were a pervert in order to gain access to perverted things. You had to ask the cashier for the magazine behind the counter, you have to drive to the seedy part of town, you had to look the hotel clerk in the face when you paid your room bill, etc... That said, someone was still producing those perverted things and there was a way to lawfully purchase them, so it wasn't heaven on earth, but hell at least felt the need to hide itself in back alleys or behind the counter.
Today, perversion is being marketed in broad daylight. It is being sold and purchased in front of everyone like that guy with his Moabitess through the camp of Moses. We have perverted the nature of perversion. We have stressed the "normalness" of unnaturalness. We have declared the delusional to be sane and the kinky to be in line. We are told that the abnormal is normal. Which begs the question... what is abnormal? Apparently it is one man and one woman coming together as husband and wife for one lifetime and raising children together. That is the new perversion that the modern marketers want to keep behind the counter. That is the thing which they want young people to feel ashamed for wanting.
Adam and Eve really did learn something about evil by eating that fruit before it was time to take it. They learned something new, but not the way they were meant to learn it. They did not develop the discernment to tell the difference between white and off white, but they did learn what wickedness tasted like. That is a lesson no one ever needs to learn, but that is the subject of most advertisements and academia in our day.
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