Episode 17: Non-monogamishmash

**Warning: This episode might not be suitable for young listeners**

Paganism is rapidly flooding into the West and the growing impact of paganism is perhaps most evident in our culture's changing views on sexuality and marriage. In this episode we reflect on historically pagan views of sexuality and marriage (focusing primarily on Greco-Roman paganism, but considering other pagan practices as well) and we illustrate how these pagan and distinctly non-Christian views are manifesting in our culture today. We trace the pagan penchant for pornography from the walls of Pompeii to modern art and popular shows. In this tour de force episode, we cover modern examples of polyamory, polygamy, polyandry, and group marriage and we document the uptick in creative and trail blazing romantic arrangements such as 'monogamish' marriage and the 'polyfidelous closed quad' configuration. Prepare to be shocked by the growing depravity that is rapidly becoming the 'new normal'. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode Timeline:

0:00:38 - Introduction

Washington Post | THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS A secret history of the war

Dittrich, Luke (2017). Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets. Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition.

McGill - The Neuro

0:11:01 - Pornography

CNN | Sex, consent, and the ancient city: A closer look at Pompeii's erotic mural of 'Leda and the Swan'

Guardian | The great art cover-up: Renaissance nudity still has power to shock

Michelangelo - The Last Judgment

Michelangelo - The Risen Christ

Vanity Fair | Game of Thrones Is Even More Insanely Popular than You Think

LifeSite News | Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke: Rape scenes were ‘terrifying’...made me ‘cry’

Armchair Expert | Emilia Clarke Interview

Kuby, Gabriele (2015). The Global Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom. LifeSite/Angelico Press.

0:34:09 - Promiscuity

YouTube | The Pagan City, the Christian City, and the Secular City | Steven Smith

YouTube | Culture Wars as Pagan Counterrevolution | Steven Smith 

YouTube | Coming Home? The Imminent Immanent City | Steven Smith 

Daily Mail | Polyamorous woman, 20, reveals she fell pregnant by one of her FOUR partners after they all went on vacation together - but she says they will ALL raise the baby as a 'family'

Esther Perel | TED2015 | Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved

CBSN Originals | "Things are opening up": Non-monogamy is more common than you'd think

YouTube | Monogamish: The new rules of marriage | Jessica O'Reilly | TEDxVancouver

Wikipedia | Appeal to Nature fallacy and Naturalistic fallacy

Destruction Of The Family: The U.S. Has The Highest Rate Of Children Living With A Single Parent In The Entire World

The Telegraph | Why men should give their wives a cheat pass this Christmas

Breitbart | It’s Christmas! So a British Newspaper Is Encouraging Wives to Cheat on Their Husbands… Again

1:25:35 - Ending

Bibliography:

Books

Dittrich, Luke (2017). Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets. Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition.

Engles, F. (1972/1884). The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Penguin Classics.

Fox, R.L. (1987). Pagans and Christians. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Harper, L. (2013). From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. First Harvard University Press.

Kuby, Gabriele (2015). The Global Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom. LifeSite/Angelico Press.