SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER XI: SEX-SCRIPTS IN THE 21st CENTURY
If the sex-script hypothesis is substantially
upheld further research,
this new model will begin to have an impact in the 21st century.
Mounting population pressures will require all
organized societies
to be more careful about the number of children born in each generation.
Birth planning will become almost universal in advanced societies.
And reliable forms of contraception
(backed by safe abortions achieved by drugs rather than surgery)
will permit sexual behavior to be basically separated from reproduction.
Such social changes might even affect the imprinting of sex-scripts.
Research into sexual fantasies will become
cross-cultural,
which should provide interesting clues about the process of imprinting.
Sex between adults and children is likely to
increase,
but greater openness about such behavior can help us to understand
both the sex-scripts of the adults who initiate such sexual encounters
and the sexual imprinting it probably leaves in the children.
Greater openness about sex will clarify
unusual sex-scripts,
which in the past were mostly hidden and denied.
If the sex-script hypothesis removes the stigma attached to paraphilias,
further research in this area will cast more light on sexual imprinting.
But along with scientific advances in sexology,
there will also be more bizarre fringe-theories and cults.
But even such phenomena can help us to understand sex-scripts better.
As a result of greater openness about all
things sexual,
some unfortunate forms of sexual imprinting might diminish or disappear.
For instance, sex-is-good imprinting might replace
at least some of the sex-is-bad imprinting common in former centuries.
If the imprinting of sexual fantasies is permanent,
then it should be taken into account in selecting an occupation.
People should select occupations compatible with their sex-scripts.
For instance, necrophiliacs should stay away from the funeral industry.
People sexually attracted to children should avoid working with them.
And men aroused by touching women should not become gynecologists.
We can expect a decline in traditional
marriage.
People will have sex without getting married.
More flexible and open sexual relationships might largely replace
the traditional patterns of marriage and the nuclear family.
Chapter
XI
SEX-SCRIPTS IN THE 21ST
CENTURY
by JAMES
PARK
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Created
3-16-2008; Revised