This Harvey Weinstein business brings to mind a thought that's been growing in my mind about Hollywood and its influence on our popular culture. Weinstein was hardly unusual in the Hollywood culture; he was hardly the exception to the rule. No, he was emblematic of that culture. It's just that he was such a powerful figure that he was able to bend more women to his will. But this promiscuous 'hookup' attitude is the sexual subculture of Hollywood. This is the 'casting couch' culture. It's nothing new, people have known about it for decades.
What's relatively new is Hollywood's attempt to foist this culture on the rest of us, to tell us that this should be the 'new normal' in matters sexual. I think they're wrong about this. I don't think this is really what people want, and young people in particular, and young women especially.
I think there should be clubs in colleges, high schools, maybe even middle schools called, simply, 'Monogamy.' I think monogamy is really what most kids want, especially if their parents seem to have successful marriages. These clubs would be totally voluntary, not affiliated with any religion, but the kids who join them would basically be saying, 'I want to find a life partner with whom to have children and a family. I'm not interested in promiscuous sex.' The hookup culture tries to pressure girls, in particular, into having casual sex when they may not want that at all. 'Monogamy' would be a cultural alternative that would allow these young people to avoid that pressure.
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