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SEX FASCINATION—THE DISEASE OF THE MODERN AGE 11

a distinct possibility, but the very meaning of life. But the
pleasures of youth, as the poets lament, is but a fleeting frolic. The
ability of the body to enjoy is like a water-laden sponge. At first, if
you just pinch it, water gushes out. But as it is squeezed more and
more, it gradually becomes difficult to get even a few drops from
it.
Similarly, attempts for sexual enjoyment increasingly result in
emptiness and frustration. Still, most people fail to recognize the
limits of sexual enjoyment. Due to misdirected education, they
think that their lack of satisfaction with sex means there is
something wrong in their approach to it. They may end up on a
psychologist’s couch or reading some of the hundreds of books on
“improved” sex life (Yoga for Sex, Tao for Sex, The Modern
Woman’s Guide to Sex, A Doctor’s Sex Secrets, Diet for Better Sex,
etc.). However, the harder they grope for pleasure, the more
surely it eludes them. As they furiously try to force their bodies
into giving them the happiness which they regard as a natural
birthright, they may turn to frequent masturbation, increased
promiscuity, pornography, varieties of perversity, and ultimately
violence.
Actual civilization teaches its members to sublimate their
sexual desires for higher, spiritual purposes. Modern civilization
exploits people’s sexual cravings, makes a business out of it, and
sends people to hell by the millions.
Seeing all this, the Vaiñëavas are sorry. They know that every
living being is an eternal servant of Kåñëa, and that sexual desire is
simply a perverted reflection of the heart’s deepest longings to love
Kåñëa. Just by understanding this simple principle the whole world
could be happy. But in the darkness of the modern age it is very
difficult to convince anyone that there is anything wrong with sex
at all. The members of the Kåñëa consciousness movement have a
great responsibility to somehow or other give this real knowledge
to the people of the world. Çréla Prabhupäda: “The Kåñëa
consciousness movement will go down in history as having saved
mankind in its darkest hour.”