When Beautiful Becomes Ugly

There was a time than when a man liked a woman, he would ask if he could court her, thereby getting to know her and hopefully win her affections. If so, he would ask her father for her hand in marriage. Once married, he would have earned the right to consummate that union with intimacy. That is beautiful.

Today, if a man likes a woman (or vise versa), he immediately thinks of sex. He doesn't know her but he goes about trying to get it. It may lead to more sex or, if not, finding someone else to score with.

There maybe all sorts of various scenarios to this, but the bottom line is that two people are treating something most sacred - an act that produces another life - as if it was as common as a hand shake. It gets complicated too as people get hurt, have abortions, get diseases, children raised without a father etc. You get the point.

Even if today's relationships do lead to marriage, has a foundation been laid so that the union and the physical side of it will be treated with respect? Will they find marriage restrictive after years of promiscuity? I wonder if a certain well known golfer fell into this bunker?

This happens because something that could be beautiful has got ugly. People having sex without having earned the right to. It's wrong, yet it continues. What was beautiful has become ugly. It doesn't have to be this way.