By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International, May 6, 2024
As president of Human Life International, Fr. Boquet is a leading expert on the international pro-life and family movement, having journeyed to nearly 90 countries on pro-life missions over the last decade. Father Boquet works with pro-life and family leaders in 116 counties that partner with HLI to proclaim and advance the Gospel of Life. Read his full bio here.
Warning: This column includes some descriptions of a mature and disturbing nature. Reader discretion is advised.
Recently, a woman by the name of Kitty published a book about a year during which she decided to experiment with casual sex. Her self-stated purpose was to shake off a deep aversion she had felt towards sex ever since she had been assaulted by a boy when she was just ten years old.
“No more guilt. No more self-loathing. No more self-limitation. I was liberated and fearless.” Those were her thoughts as she embarked on a year in which she would have casual physical relationships with ten different men.
Unsurprisingly, it didn’t go the way she expected. What began as a symbolic gesture to express her freedom from the trauma of that early encounter, quickly became a nightmare—one that left her even more deeply wounded than before.
Like so many young people, Kitty had bought into the lie that sex is, or can be, a purely harmless “pastime,” that can be indulged in freely, with no serious consequences. Instead, however, she quickly discovered what so many naïve young women discover when they put the lies of the sexual revolution into practice: to pursue casual sex is to open yourself up to being emotionally wounded and physically abused by unscrupulous men. ….
