Secular analysis of the Sexual Revolution can only go so far. Because human beings are spiritual, human sex has a spiritual component that differentiates it from the coupling of the brute animals. Bulls and lions don’t write love poetry. But precisely because we are not angels but rational animals, sex still involves our animal physicality. Just as we desire food and drink to preserve our individual lives, we desire sex to preserve the life of the species.
This is a very powerful drive, and it presents dangers that have always been well understood throughout human history. As the medieval theologians said, the corruption of the best becomes the worst. Human sexuality, being higher than animal sexuality, has further to fall. Bulls and lions might not write love poetry, but they don’t create or consume porn either.
Accordingly, the Mahanirvana-tantra warns that, in the Kali Yuga (Dark Age), ‘men become the subjects of women and slaves of pleasure and oppressors of their friends, teachers, and anyone who deserves respect.’ The demon Kali, said to rule during this time, is the goddess of not only destruction but also desire and sex, and her “warrior poses” are incorporated into the yoga routines of millions of women today.
That’s how feminism works: to attack patriarchy, the radicals promoted promiscuity. Nothing affects society more than sex does, and “free love” came at the cost of civilisation. Men are now ‘the subjects of women’ because being ‘slaves of pleasure’ means they’re simps willing to sacrifice honour for selfish satisfaction.
Not only their honour, in fact, but also their freedom: as E. Michael Jones has shown at length, sexual liberation is political control — an insight that develops Chesterton’s remark that ‘free love is the direct enemy of freedom’ and ‘the most obvious of all the bribes that can be offered by slavery.’
Ultimately, simping is Satanic, and the commentary of the Church Fathers on Romans 1 about the dangers of lust provides essential insight into our times. It’s the best analysis of the Sexual Revolution — the only one that does its spiritual significance justice — yet it’s almost never mentioned. Before I explain what I’ve learnt from studying the detailed analysis that Aquinas and Chrysostom give, however, let me briefly recap Romans 1 for you with some of the commentary from the other Church Fathers.