Week 5 - Barker 10

Barker points out in Chap 10 that men and women have two different ways of interacting and perceiving reality. While this comes as no shock, the impact of biochemistry and sexuality on culture is becoming more and more pronounced. The use of sex and sensuality by our culture to communicate messages about what kind of car to buy to what kind of person we should be is unsettling. Barker goes on to point out that the use of sex to communciate ideas like this creates a sense of subjectivity which permeates our culture. I liked what Barker said about psychoanalysis. Certainly there is truth in psychoanalysis and its findings on human sexuality as a driving force behind a myriad of motivators from childhood through adulthood. The church's response to sexuality as predominantly a negative one should be cause for concern. If God made sex and sex is such a huge part of what it means to be alive and creative then the Church needs to be able to express itself holistically without demonizing the sexual.