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If we make a god of sexuality, that god will fail in ways that affect the whole person and perhaps the whole society.

Philip Yancey/ DECEMBER 12, 1994

Yancey, Philip (1994). "The Lost Sex Study," Christianity Today.

     If we make a god of sexuality, that god will fail in ways that affect the whole person and perhaps the whole society. While much of the media is buzzing about a new survey on sex in America, I'm still thinking about a book, "Sex and Culture," published in 1934. I discovered it in the windowless warrens of a large university library, and I felt like an archaeologist must feel unearthing an artifact from the catacombs.

Seeking to test the Freudian notion that civilization is a byproduct of repressed sexuality, the scholar J. D. Unwin studied 86 different societies. His findings startled many scholars - above all, Unwin himself - because all 86 demonstrated a direct tie between monogamy and the "expansive energy" of civilization.

Unwin had no Christian convictions and applied no moral judgment: "I offer no opinion about rightness or wrongness." Nevertheless, he had to conclude, "In human records there is no instance of a society retaining its energy after a complete new generation has inherited a tradition which does not insist on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial continence."

For Roman, Greek, Sumerian, Moorish, Babylonian, and Anglo-Saxon civilizations, Unwin had several hundred years of history to draw on. He found with no exceptions that these societies flourished during eras that valued sexual fidelity. Inevitably, sexual mores would loosen and the societies would subsequently decline, only to rise again when they returned to more rigid sexual standards.

Unwin seemed at a loss to explain the pattern, yet it so impressed him that he proposed a special class of "Alpha" citizens in Great Britain. These individuals of unusual promise would take vows of chastity before marriage and observe strict monogamy after marriage - all for the sake of the Empire, which needed their talents.

Unwin died before fully developing his theory of "the sexual foundations of a new society," but the incomplete results were published in another book, "Hopousia," with an introduction by Aldous Huxley.

References

Anderson, K. (2015). The Decline of a Nation. [Online at: www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/decline.html].

Burkett, Bob. (2015). On Civilizations and Sex. Onlinew at:

<https://ethikapolitika.org/2014/08/19/civilizations-sex/>

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Hillenburg, J. (2015). Why homosexual marriage is wrong: A Biblical dissertation on the same sex marriage debate  in America. www.Xulonpress.com, [Online sample available at:

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Unwin, J.D. (n.d.). Hopousia. Aldous Huxley edited version of Unwin’s study

Unwin Annotation in Wikipedia. [Online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Unwin].

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Sheldon, Rev. Louis P. (n.d.). The destruction of marriage precedes the death of a culture.

Traditional Values Coalition Education and Legal Institute / P.O. Box 940 / Anaheim, CA 92815 / (714) 520-0300.

Yancey, Philip (1994). "The Lost Sex Study," Christianity Today.

·         Sexual Regulations and Human Behaviour. London: Williams & Norgate ltd., 1933.

·         Sex and Culture. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.

·         The Scandal of Imprisonment for Debt. London: Simpkin Marshall Limited, 1935.

·         Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behaviour. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.

·         Sex Compatibility in Marriage. New York: Rensselaer, 1939.

·         Hopousia: Or, The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society, with and introduction by Aldous Huxley. New York: Oskar Piest, 1940.

Our Economic Problems and Their Solution (An Extract from "Hopousia.") London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1944.

Selected articles[edit]

·         "Monogamy as a Condition of Social Energy,” The Hibbert Journal, Vol. XXV, 1927.

·         "The Classificatory System of Relationship," Man, Vol. XXIX, Sep., 1929.

·         "Kinship," Man, Vol. XXX, Apr., 1930.

·         "Reply to Dr. Morant's 'Cultural Anthropology and Statistics'," Man, Vol. XXXV, Mar., 1935.

Other[edit]

·         Dark Rapture: The Sex-life of the African Negro, with an Introduction by J. D. Unwin. New York: Walden Publication, 1939.

1.     Jump up^ "Any human society is free to choose either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation." Unwin, J. D. (1934) Sex and Culture. London: Oxford University Press, p. 412.

2.     Jump up^ Huxley, Aldous (1946). "Ethics." In: Ends and Means. London: Chatto & Windus, pp. 311–12.

3.     Jump up^ Unwin, J. D. (1927). "Monogamy as a Condition of Social Energy,” The Hibbert Journal, Vol. XXV, p. 662.

·         Boggs, Kelly (2009). "Sexual Anarchy: America's Demise?," Crosswalk.

·         Burkett, Bob (2014). "On Civilizations and Sex," Ethika Politika.

·         Craven, S. Michael (2008). "In Defense of Marriage," Part II, Part III, Crosswalk.

·         Firth, Raymond (1936). "Sex and Culture," Africa, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 126–129.

·         Morant, G. M. (1935). "Cultural Anthropology and Statistics; A One-Sided Review of 'Sex and Culture'," Man, Vol. 35, pp. 34–39.

·         Vitagliano, Ed (2012). "The Morally Heroic and the Rescue of Culture," AFA Journal.

·         Yancey, Philip (1994). "The Lost Sex Study," Christianity Today.