Absolute guarantee? No. But, assuming proper use, a very high probability? Nowadays, yes. Despite scaremonger handwringing over the likelihood of rampant promiscuity, the net effect has been to empower. And with self-empowerment a greater sense of self-responsibility tends to follow. This is a simple lesson the extreme ends of our messed-up sociopolitical spectrum seem intent on not learning.
-Dave-
Then you couldn't have been up and hunting during the 60s!
Hugh Hefner's
Playboy Philosophy was a well-written read during the sexual revolution era, and shows that either he had some convenient hired pens working under his name, or that he didn't get out of his pyjamas not because he was having too busy a time in the hutch, but because he was too busy typing. Yet, all the justifications and new morality aside, the time also led to the scourge of AIDS and the rest of the modern curses that flowed with the lawless dick.
I think we perhaps just took the lid from off the sewer that had been keeping the stench beneath from the public nostril, and let the contents overflow the pavements.
That word, empowerment, is one that I have grown to detest. It's used by women libbers, politicians of all colours and as far as I can make out, is the mot du jour of any group with an agenda to sell. On the one hand, you get the (unattractive?) women who harangue models for being either too thin or too curvaceously sexy, and on the other, those who claim that showing your butt to the magazine reader is empowering. Really? I always thought it was just an easy, non-demanding way of paying the rent and meeting a banker, estate agent or future POTUS.
Maybe that's what's meant by empowering: not some highfaluting, moral high ground, I'm-in-control thing at all, but just the power of being employable/buyable at whatever level?
Rob
