Gina
I do think that the natural hormonal cycles of men and women are not in sync, at least in the first 2/3 of life. So women are finding a little bit about the terrible power of testosterone, in their middle years. And so 70-75% of divorces are initiated by females.
The hormonal thing has always been around. Birth control and the no fault divorce has not. In times past, womens' risk in infidelity was extreme...a pregnancy, being found out, and then losing your stable home and good name and being taken care of by your husband. Now, those checks are being removed, and we are seeing that there is a deeper beast in women than we ever expected. In this realm of sexual infidelity, I mean.
SO young men are becoming more and more cautious of marriage. They do not want to commit. And society, more and more, wants to redefine a family, to make anything go. Gay marriage, single parents, gay adoption, women having babies with various men...ANYTHING JUST AS LONG AS THE SACRED COW OF LUST IS NOT RESTRAINED.
It is a terrible state of affairs (no pun intended) Just as young men have learned in times past and many still do, and keep their sexual appetites in control in their prime, women simply must learn to do the same. This life is not easy. And these powerful urges do not rule one forever. In fact, when women hit their forties, bang...wow, all of a sudden, for many of these who just HAD to have an affair in their thirties, now they look at the shattered lives and think, did I really do all of that? Why why?
So maybe women should start encouraging fidelity in their marriages to each other. Yes and maybe men have to learn to forgive what to some is seemingly unforgiveable.
I just think this society, getting evermore soaked in lust of every form...porn soaked, every abberant desire and hook-up desired by any approved of and celebrated...and this attitude is passed on to the impressionable children...we are certainly going to inherit the whirlwind and we sow to the wind.
Not even accounting for the fact that God will increasingly give people over to their lusts, as they feel thay do not need to acknowledge him..Deep inner drives and deep inner genes, that remain dormant for the most part, will be caused to express and spring deeper and more sinful behaviours into action...lust only begets more lust, when the appetites are not restrained.
Speaking for myself, I want God to make me pure in the midst of it all. I want nothing to do with it. I want only to love my wife, to love my children, and to somehow teach them and inculcate in them values that would cause them to resist the massive overload of sexual temptation out there. It is our God given mandate, to raise up our children in the nuture and admonition of the Lord.