WALSH: You Feel Violated After Casual Sex Because You Degraded Yourself. Not Because It Was Rape. | Daily Wire

WALSH: You Feel Violated After Casual Sex Because You Degraded Yourself. Not Because It Was Rape. | Daily Wire

Matt Walsh writes:

"Our godless society has long been engaged in this campaign to alleviate feelings of guilt, not by discouraging the actions that provoke them, but by making the person who feels them into a victim. You'll notice that we have a 'disease' or a 'condition' to explain just about every vice. We make guilt into a medical or psychiatric issue. A man who has intense feelings of guilt and shame may consult a psychiatrist and come away with a prescription for pills that will numb his conscience. We are always trying to make the feelings go away without ever stopping to consider whether we have the feelings because of how we are living.

"In the realm of sex, we turn guilt and shame into a legal matter. If a woman feels bad after sex, she must be a rape victim. It could not be her fault. It can never be her fault. We cannot allow moral guilt. We cannot put responsibility on the woman; we cannot 'blame' her for her own decisions. We cannot leave her with her guilt because then we allow her no relief other than prayer and repentance. But that means we must acknowledge God, which opens up a whole new can of worms.

"So, as cowards, we retreat back under the shelter of deflected blame. We start talking about 'consent' and 'rape culture' and whatever else. Anything but personal responsibility. Anything but shame. Anything but guilt. Anything but sin. And nothing gets better. And we never feel better. But, we tell ourselves, at least it's not our fault."