Why Sexual Revolutions Always Happen Before Political Revolutions

01. The Renaissance: From Physical Abstinence to Spiritual Abstinence

Life in the Middle Ages was sad, dull, dark, and monotonous. The Renaissance was a period of human emancipation, and the characters in the works of art began to have expressions. Christianity called this love "holy love", and the Renaissance people returned it back to the love of men and women.

As one of the branches of Catholicism, Protestantism broke abstinence. Protestant priests could marry, but they had to be "purified". In "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism", it is believed that the Protestant tradition of freshness and few desires created the spirit of capitalism, which enabled capitalism to develop throughout the world. But the result is that this way of Protestantism turns physical abstinence into spiritual abstinence. You can get married and have children, but you can't treat sex as a pleasure, just treat it as a responsibility and obligation.

This kind of thing is not new, it also happens in China, but it is not as serious as Protestantism. In the past, when Chinese scholars had sex, they would say "not for sex, but for the future", that is to say, only in order to have children, the sex life is pure, otherwise it is called covetousness Enjoy, you will be happy and sad.

02. Victorian "fake fashion"

This also led to the emergence of "hypocritical fashion" in the Victorian era in the second half of the 19th century. The reason why it is called "hypocrisy" is that the following phenomena already existed in the society at that time.

First, aristocratic women in upper-class society dress very well and are very dignified on the surface, but in reality, life is very chaotic, and illegitimate children have reached an all-time high.

The second is the rampage of prostitutes. Prostitutes have always existed throughout history, but by this time it had become an existential issue for the British Empire. The Taiping Rebellion in China in 1852 almost drove the British away, but the British army never came to support it because the prostitutes prostituted the soldiers, causing one-third of the sailors to get syphilis, and the army had to sail at sea After a month, there would be no combat power, so the army could not be dispatched within a year. In 1871, the United Kingdom promulgated the first law against prostitution in Western history, called the "Infectious Disease Prevention Act". This is common in history, and the purpose of all evil has a most high-sounding reason.

The third is homosexuality. At that time, this kind of fashion was popular among the upper classes, but no one said it. It is very similar to the current state of China, and it is tacit. When a boy in college wants to come out, everyone will say, "What are you doing?"

The fourth is the attraction of the wild love festival of gypsy girls. The Gypsy nation is similar to the Jewish nation. It has existed for two thousand years in European history. There is no land to wander around, and no production capacity. They can only sing and dance, and beg for food. However, in the second half of the 19th century, a lot of literature, paintings and operas sang their praises, the most famous being "Carmen". The wildness of gypsy girls broke through the feudal traditions of the past, which was not found in European society . This ideal attracts many men.

Finally, the specter of communism roams. Engels did advocate the abolition of monogamy in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, so at least in 1848, when communism was just emerging, the specter of the concept of "communist wives" was wandering in people's minds.

At that time, social life had become like this, but culturally it was still sanctimonious, so it was called "hypocrisy".

03. Asceticism counterattacks

Another notable phenomenon in the 19th century, the counterattack of asceticism, manifested itself in two ways.

The first is to abridge the Bible. What China now sells is the 1871 edition of the Bible, which forbids all sexual associations. There are three versions of the Bible, the first is the 1871 Bible, the second is the Jewish Bible, and the third is the Dead Sea manuscript. These three versions are completely different. In the most original manuscript, not only is it not abstinence, but it is indulgence. For example, "Solomon's Song of Solomon" was called "Song of Solomon" in the 1871 version. The original version was completely a sex education, but it was completely changed after the 19th century. At that time, people thought it was a very pornographic thing. Many deletions have been made.

The second is to advocate single gentlemen and dignified ladies. For example, Sherlock Holmes is a gentleman who can sit still. The women of that era were actually all dignified ladies, standing and sitting, not smiling.

04. After the First World War: The First Sexual Revolution

In the 20th century, after the First World War, the first sexual revolution took place in the West.

This sexual revolution is manifested in a breakthrough of traditional reforms, and people are tired of suave, pretentious love. Some people put forward that "Empires are destroyed by revolutions, and revolutions are born in bed", and they believe that "sexual revolution" is the forerunner of political revolution.

This is because after a major disaster, all nations will continue to reflect, and people feel that God, the world and people are "dead". Both sides of the war believed in God, and as a result, "God is dead"; Europe was the world at that time, and as a result, Europe was beaten like this, and the world died; even if people survived the first World War, even if they were in the rear, but people were not. Maybe back in the Victorian period, people died too.

In this case, there is the first disillusionment of romantic love . For the first time after a thousand years of spreading the love of knight and Cinderella that was preached in the past, there was disillusionment, because this kind of love cannot resist suffering, and it cannot be realized. There is a movie called "Forbidden Land". It is a war movie, but it is actually a love movie. It was written about the destruction of the love between men and women by this war, not because of separation, but because after such a cruel war, people have no way to believe it. in love.

05. Women's "glass of water" in the Soviet Union

At this time, the social status of women was unprecedentedly improved. In 1918, the United Kingdom stipulated that women over the age of 30 have the right to vote. Only then will there be the current feminist movement and equality between men and women, and there will be so many female college students sitting here today to listen to lectures.

In the Soviet Union there was also the world's first female minister, Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai, who served as Minister of Transport and was Lenin's right-hand man, equivalent to the Bolshevik Vice-President.

Moreover, she was selected as the initiator of the "glass of water" movement . "Glass of water doctrine" means that sex life is as simple as drinking a glass of water, without so many burdens, concerns and consequences. After drinking, you don't drink, and you want to drink and continue drinking. This has played a very important role in history. It not only has a great impact on a conservative and gentlemanly country like Britain, but also has a great impact on China. In the 1920s and 1930s, Chinese trendy men and women followed this, There will be free marriage union and free love. Therefore , there is sexual freedom before marriage freedom, so don't confuse it.

Of course, this is women's "glass of water doctrine", and men's "glass of water doctrine" is whoring prostitutes, which has existed for thousands of years.

Glass of waterism began when the revolution was successful in 1918, and early literature on the Red Army and the guerrillas was very explicit about sexual relations. Some regimes once launched a women's liberation movement, demanding that women not have sex with only one man. This sexual liberation was very radical during the Soviet Civil War and persisted until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

At that time, freedom of divorce was also advocated. During the long 70-year history of the Soviet Union, it was possible to get a divorce by publishing a statement in a newspaper.

Moreover, the Soviet Union was unprecedentedly open to nudity. The revolution in 1918 had just succeeded. There was a nude beach on the Black Sea, earlier than all of Europe and earlier than the United States. Around 1931, Chinese journalist Zou Taofen was taken aback by the Soviet Union, thinking it was too immoral. The Soviets said: "We stand together without clothes and nothing happens. You are well-dressed but you do everything." He felt very inspired, and when he came back, he put this in the newspaper, which was too casual for the Chinese, and stimulated the Chinese to think about what morality is.

The movement continued until 1927. Before 1927, one-third of the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army visited prostitutes. At that time, only those who had meritorious service in the war could go to university. Therefore, college students were all meritorious officials. 40% of them had sex by cohabitation, and the remaining 30% had sex. % of the people rely on whoring, and the revolution killed all the landlords and capitalists, and the wives and daughters of the capitalists can only be prostituted, so prostitutes have far surpassed the era of the Tsarist Empire. Although the war lasted for many years in Europe, the prostitutes remained at the pre-war level, so they regarded the Soviets as barbarians. This is a very obscure history, but it is written in Chinese history books in the 1950s, and the sexual revolution also affected Yan'an from 1937 to 1939.

Until Stalin came to power and implemented a strict dictatorship, all these things were wiped out. In 1927, Stalin arrested nearly 500,000 prostitutes across the country, deprived them of their freedom and rights, forced them to undergo labor reform, and made them dig a 270-kilometer canal for 6 years. Nearly 500,000 prostitutes were arrested. worn out.

Stalin practiced strict spiritual abstinence, but he did not ban nudity, he turned sex into a tool of despotism.

06. After World War II: The Second Sexual Revolution

After World War II, a second sexual revolution took place.

World War II was an earth-shaking change for Europe. In just four years, a total of 37.5 million people died, and 12 million soldiers died alone. After such a tragic war, what happened in Europe upheaval.

Who is the most open in the West now? It's Europe not America, America is polarized, the most extreme and conservative people are in America, Europe is relatively average and generally open. For example, pornography, it's normal to play pornography in European movies, and movies released in the United States are all rated.

The slogan of the second sexual revolution was "No more wars, it's not good for us to do hobbies". There are four reasons for the emergence of the second sexual revolution.

The first is because of the increasing proportion of adolescents in the population. After the war in 1945, thirteen million American soldiers returned to their hometowns from all over the world. The first thing they did was to create human beings. From 1945 to 1950, there was a "baby boom". By 1960, these babies entered the country. During adolescence, young people between the ages of 15 and 25 actually accounted for nearly a quarter of the total population. No one could stop them from revolutionizing

The second is the hope brought by the Kennedy era. It was not because of Kennedy himself, but because he was relatively young, only 42 years old, and his own political views were actually conservative, but he was considered to bring new hope.

The third is the liberation of women. We call it the "feminist movement", there is a problem with the English translation, there was a feminism in the second half of the 19th century, when it was for the right to life, and this movement was successful, the two movements have the same Name, how to distinguish? I recommend the Taiwanese translation "equality of women and men", which is the exact meaning of feminism that emerged after the 1960s. The first women's congress was held in 1974, and the first right raised by women was not the right to marriage, the right to employment or the right to prevent rape, but the right to choose homosexuality, which represented the sexual liberation movement at that time.

Fourth, disco, rock pop. People tend to ignore the meaning behind the music, the disco rhythm of rock music is 0.8 seconds, which represents the rhythm of the rhythm of orgasm, which represents sex. "Sex" has a broad meaning in the West. "Sex" in English used to be called sex, but now it is called sexuality. It has been widely expanded to a way of life for human beings. Music and dance are representative in all aspects. And the concept of "sex" don't think about gender anymore. China says that gender is men and women, but it is called gender in English, including homosexuals, transgender people, and intersex people. China has lagged behind the mainstream of the world for too long.

The "sexual rights" proposed in the 1960s made several demands:

The first is personal rights. To prevent sexual assault, which is not only rape, but also sexual harassment, childhood sexual assault, etc.

The second is personality rights. In foreign countries, you cannot insult women in public, especially a group of women. For example, as the Chinese often say, "women's hair is long and their knowledge is short." This is impossible in the United States, and it is difficult for Chinese people to think of many sensitive levels. If you want to study abroad in the future, you must take a gender training class first. Don't think that you don't need girls. If girls dare to insult women and gays, it's not allowed.

The third is choice. This was the first right that the sexual liberation movement fought for back then. Now this right has been expanded to include the right to human development, because human sexual orientation is not fixed and can be changed in the process.

The fourth is citizenship. This is difficult for Chinese people to understand. There is a story to explain. I used to go to the United States to visit relatives. I had nothing to do at night. It happened that an old man from Sichuan was also visiting relatives. So we went out for a walk in the evening. In less than a week, my brother Tell me that the community committee is meeting to discuss us because it is necessary to provide the necessary facilities for older Chinese gay men. Americans don't know about slipping corners. They think we are gay, bullied by our family and homeless. They really have a sofa for us to sit and chat. Although it is a big misunderstanding, what this reflects is civil rights. I have never paid a penny in tax to the United States, but as long as you live here, you are a citizen, and government agencies must provide convenience for everyone. This is called citizenship. .

But now, China has another extreme when it comes to sexual rights, that is, they think they are a minority and can do whatever they want. For example, some scholars advocate that "you can have sex in the park, and others can't control it." But in fact, everyone's rights are bounded, and the rights of others should be used as the boundary, and it is a violation of morality to exceed it.

Our generation has been Red Guards, and the only mistake the Red Guards have made is that we thought we were right, noble, and answering Chairman Mao's call. From Beijing to Shanghai, we have to walk instead of taking the train. We feel that we are noble and have no selfish thoughts about joining the revolution, but this does not mean that the Red Guards have the privilege of insulting and criticizing people. A lot of young people are making the same mistakes we did back then.

For example, on the Internet now, many people don't understand one thing: you can express your opinion, but you can't use a dirty word. No matter how right you are, it doesn't mean you have the right to curse. We always use "tolerance" to explain this issue. This is not a question of tolerance. It is the basic principle of human rights. If you violate this, you will become a Red Guard.

07. Sexual Revolution Results:

Romantic disillusionment, divorce as a means

The sexual revolution has also completely disillusioned romantic love. This does not mean that there is no love, but romantic love has turned into sex, and that kind of asexual love is completely gone. In modern Western morality, especially in Europe, people will find it very strange to love someone but not go to bed, and it is also very strange to go to bed if you don’t love someone.

The first sentence is acceptable to most Chinese people, but the second sentence is not very good. How many of us are adult couples who have no love at all but are having sex and having children? We have done a survey and found that only 30% of adult couples in China are really in love, and the remaining 70% are not in love at all, but they also have sex. Is this moral?

Divorce is not the best means, but it is necessary means.

The incidence of extramarital affairs in China is higher than in the world. The incidence of extramarital affairs among women was 11% in 2010 and is now 13%. That compares with 6 percent in the United States and 3 percent in Sweden. This is not a moral issue, but because foreign countries are "continuous monogamy" . Once they don't get along and don't love each other anymore, the marriage will be broken, but there will be many marriages in one's life, and every marriage is very conscientious and single-minded, and there is no extramarital affair. The possibility and necessity, which is different from China, Chinese people can't stand divorce.

08. Asceticism is crushed, and sex, love, and marriage are separated

These methods shattered asceticism and created the relative separation of sex, love, and marriage in the West.

In the 1980s, three Western scholars collected more than 2,400 English novels and poems on love, and made a specific analysis and concluded three rules for becoming love: first, sex; second, attraction; third, pay attention to each other, moment Think about each other.

In the 1990s, there was also such a survey in Beijing, and it was found that the rankings of China, especially married people, were slightly different: first, attention, which is considered considerate in China; second, sex; third, attractiveness.

But just 30 years have passed. In 2015, we surveyed the demeanor of both genders. This time, everyone's ranking is as follows: first, personality charm; second, gender temperament; third, understanding of each other, whether they are empathetic or not . These three together, directly affect the subsequent sexuality.

It can be seen that the Western concept of love has been deeply rooted in China. The traditional love between husband and wife is basically only an idea after marriage among young people, and it is no longer like this before marriage.