Questioning Sex #8: Is Sex a Public Health Crisis?

Has humanity been polluted by millennia of toxic sexual shame? What are the consequences of this collective trauma?

The human race is at an existential juncture, an inflection point. We are destroying the natural world while creating AI technologies that could potentially destroy our humanity.

We’ve reached a moment when we’re being asked some fundamental questions. What does it mean to be human? And more specifically, is our sexuality — a defining aspect of our humanity — healthy?

When you think of a natural resource that’s been polluted by human activity, you think of the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the earth that grows the food we eat. You don’t think of sex. But maybe you should!

Like lead in our drinking water, asbestos in our homes, and toxic chemicals and plastic in our food, our inheritance of sexual shame pollutes us as individuals and makes society sick.

Thousands of years of patriarchal distortion and religious oppression have shamed us and kept us ignorant about one of the defining aspects of our humanity — sex.

READ THE ARTICLE ON MEDIUM.