THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, PART 2

As I stated before, I don't go to movies as a general rule, and I don't intend to go see The 40-Year Old Virgin. I have enough discernment to know that if Hollywood made anything about virgins, it would have a twisted spin. They don't understand the concept. They don't have a clue. Seems today, with the influence of TV, movies, mags, blah, blah, blah, students--children, even--are encouraged to have sex early. Experiment. Have fun. It's for your pleasure. Why deny yourself? What possible reason could there be for that? Our sexual organs are a part of our bodies, and they should be a part of our lives. Have sex. Early. Anytime you feel like. Explore.

Hogwash. SEX IS FOR MARRIAGE AND MARRIAGE ONLY. God made it that way. For our maximum benefit. Sex outside the bonds of marriage brings heartache. We say no to the good so we can say yes to the best. You say, Well, what about ?? (Hollywood stars ad infinitum) and ?? (sports figure) and ?? (anybody else you know who's doing this), etc.? They seem to be enjoying the good life. They're doing it and I don't see any bad side effects. The answer? The final chapter hasn't been written.

It's like this. We made a missions trip to Central America, and occasionally we saw nudity, such as, while driving to a remote missions church, we saw a woman in a stream bathing her horse naked (she was naked not the horse; second thought, yes he was; GRIN; writing needs rearranging!) surrounded by other people, including men, and Milton said to the missionary, "Oh my goodness. She was naked. And men were standing around, acting like they didn't even notice her. How can that be? It doesn't seem to affect them at all." I'll never forget what the wise missionary said. "It definitely affects them. The people here live like dogs, meaning, they have sex with anybody and everybody. And the poor women, they suffere the most. They have many children with many different men--with no commitment from them in marriage, which means no support, no money, no male input into the children's lives, no help at all. It's a terrible way of life, and all because of their letting down their guard in dress and lifestyle."

Here's an archaic saying. I stress archaic because it's not totally applicable today, but it's thought provoking.
When I saw him, I liked him.
When I liked him, I loved him.
When I loved him, I let him.
When I let him, I lost him.
That does apply to certain situations. My mother always said, "The man can get up, zip up, and go on his merry way, but the girl has the heartache--and sometimes a baby." Of course sometimes the girl doesn't care if she loses him, because she wants to get on to her next quest. Blech. And then sometimes the guy does stick around after doing it. But there's a downside to that: no commitment. Jerry Seinfeld said, "Why buy the cow when you're getting the milk?"

The one thing I applaud Hollywood for is making a movie about someone who's a virgin. It's an oxymoron, in my mind at least since that state of being seems so far removed from Hellywood, as one preacher calls it. Wonder if someone offered a million dollars each to virgins in the Hollywood movie scene, if there would be any takers? Kinda' like that Demi Moore movie I didn't see?

Where is innocence? I love that word! Webster's says innocence (or variations) means, "lack of knowledge of evil; chastity; unacquainted with evil; lack of worldly experience or sophistication." I happened to see a couple on the TV show The Wedding Story, and interestingly, they vowed not to kiss while they were engaged and to wait until they stood at the altar and were pronounced man and wife. The show emphasized how special that kiss was to them. Course I secretly wondered if they were doing it but not kissing (I always wonder that in today's world), so they could say they'd saved The Kiss. Probably not, because it did seem so special.

Ah, innocence. And romance. Remember Maria and Captain Von Trapp dancing on the terrace with the baroness looking on (The Sound of Music)? Now that's innocence and romance. Today's Hellywood knows nothing about either one, IMO. Or what about the TV series Pride and Prejudice (or was it Sense and Sensibility?). Reviewers raved that the sexual tension was very high yet the hero never touched the heroine! How did the moviemakers do it, they asked?
How did the characters in the original novel achieve? Simple. NBC. Heehee. That's what they called it in the religious college Milton and I attended. No Bodily Contact.

The reviews for the virgin movie are glowing. "As crude as its humor is, The 40-Year-Old Virgin is incredibly sweet and quite smart, too, over the top yet somehow real," writes one reviewer. "The 40-Year Old Virgin is the most pure fun I've had at a movie in years. Bless its rude, sweet heart."

But what does Focus on the Family have to say about it?