The Terror of Sex
April 1, 2002
Let me be blunt: If this article doesn't work, blame my editor. If it does, you can thank me. Just kidding—sort of. He suggested the topic of this piece. I'm inclined to trust his wisdom. Besides, I could never walk away from a fight when I was a kid. But this is scarier than a fight for an old man. It's about sex. You know that book, The Joy of Sex? Think of this as The Terror of Sex. What could be more frightening for an old man than the cold realization that your sexual desire is less now than it once was? And you see a definite trajectory. I led a Bible study made up of men from 23 to 64. Sometimes we older men would swap stories about the indignities we suffer at our yearly physical exams. We would laugh uproariously as we watched the color drain from the faces of the younger men. They had no idea! Neither did we when we were their age. But one thing we never joked about was the fact that our sex drive was considerably less than theirs. Then the color might have drained from our faces. Do most men feel this fear? The boom in Viagra sales, along with the proliferation of potency and penile enhancement clinics offers strong support. There has to be a better way to get old than this, to find out what it means "to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom" (Ps. 90:12). A good start would be to let diminishing sexual desire do its proper work of humiliation, especially if we have worshiped sex, as so many of us have in this culture. Though painful, it's good to be stripped of an idol, to find out that the growing bald spot on our heads really isn't a solar panel for a sex machine, after all. It was good for the false god Dagon to topple when set next to the Ark of the Covenant. Prop up the idol all we want, with ...
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