Irony

The on-campus group dedicated to preventing sexual abuse is putting on a production of "The Vagina Monologues."

Somehow I doubt that a show which degrades the sacredness and value of sex is likely to diminish the cases of sexual violence. Most cases of sexual abuse, from what I've seen, descend from a misunderstanding of sex, where it becomes something innocent and natural. Once that degredation is complete, there is nothing to keep someone form using sex for their own aims. The line between 'fun' and abuse is thingly drawn and sometimes annihilated all together.

As G.K. Chesterton said, "the effect of treating sex as only one innocent natural thing was that every other innocent natural thing become soaked and sodden with sex." Remove the holiness from the sex act and everybody is doing it. Once everybody is doing it, it becomes common property. Common property cannot be regulated, thus making sexual abuse one of many ways to get pleasure, nothing particularly wrong, at least in the eyes of the perpetrator.

If we truly wish to take back the night, we must first take back sex. To take back sex we must take back love. To take back love, we must take back marriage. To take back marriage we must come back to the Church.