The Sexual Counter-Revolution

What has the "liberating" sexual revolution of the 60's left us with forty years later? Enslavement would not be too strong a word for many of those in our society. Enslavement to
a sexual ethic dominated by self-gratification and the primacy of pleasure. Enslavement to pornography that treats created woman as a shallow object of pleasure. Enslavement to venereal disease (a term that sounds a bit more shocking than STD's) that slowly disfigures and saps the lifeblood away from those who have lingered outside the bounds of chastity. Emotional and psychological nightmares for life that "I allowed my baby to die", or if reflected on longer and more honestly "my very hands are guilty of the blood of my blood". The enslavement to status or material or entertainment over and above large dinner table conversations with mother and father with more than 1.7 children (conveniently avoided with pharmaceutical castration). Enslavement to divorce, and remarriage, and divorce, and now I'm rocked with lonliness trying to date again at 59, and the chicks at the bar aren't that pretty with their gritty voices. Enslavement that leads to rape, the taking of another man's wife for one's pleasure as the voices of her husband and children groan, if she is allowed to live out her shattered life. Enslavement of the old, withering away in a nursing home with no one to talk to, no children or one in California that sees me once a year. Enslavement to
old age and the loss of innocence when still so young because my babysitter the TV told me everything I need to know to go out and "do it". On and on and on and on.

So can there be a counter-revolution? Who will provide the theological and philosophical vision for such a movement to occur. I believe a white-haired elderly man currently wracked with the flu and a tracheostomy tube cut into this throat to allow him to breathe easier may have provided a solid foundation for this movement to occur. One Karol Wojtyla, the Bishop of Krakow, once wrote a book entitled "Love and Responsibility" which he later expanded and explicated upon more fully in 129 Wednesday audiences as Pope John Paul II (from 1979 to 1984) and subsequently termed the "Theology of the Body".

An eminant Catholic theologian and Papal biographer, George Weigel ("Witness to Hope"),
has stated that the Theology of the Body is “a kind of theological time bomb set to go off with dramatic consequences ...perhaps in the twenty-first century". I hope he is right, for we all need to be liberated, beginning with myself. I wonder how much of my personal "theology of the body", primarily informed by society at large with a few Scriptures bouncing in our out of my head during childhood, fails to capture the grand vision that God gave to our first parents.
I am going to try to dedicate the fifty days of Easter to "Love and Responsibility" and the the "Theology of the Body". I'm sure that is not enough time to begin to assimilate this rather dense teaching, but I'll try to give an update following.

If your interested, here is a website related to the "Theology of the Body". This is a quietly growing movement that I hope to be a part of.
http://www.theologyofthebody.net/