"We americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it. horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused" (Krakauer 66).
The Dynamics of Family
I think this reflects on family dynamics more so, but on a side note, also reflects societal views. Like how we all look look at sex, and glorify it, but then when it comes to individual families it is totally wrong, and i just don't understand that aspect. It said in the story when he was in highschool he tried to have sex, but he couldn't, not because of personal choice, but because he made too much noise and then he got caught and they sent the girl home. I think he chose to be celibate because he didn't give his parents the middle finger directly, he gave it to them in pride. He did it with integrity, because his parents would have never known, but he wasn't doing it for them, he was doing it for himself, and showing society, he didn't have to be what they wanted, and that he could make his own path, and do what he wanted, when he was capable of doing anything, he chose to live the that lots of people don't want to and are forced to live. The sex is one of the biggest parts to, he is expected to as a horny young man, (something hard to resist because it's in our nature) And he still said no. i am my own man.
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