The Peeping Tom of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

So on our campus (University of Maryland, College Park), there have been numerous incidents with "peeping toms" in the girls' bathrooms this whole year. In fact, there have been 5 this semester alone in one dorm. This struck me as an extremely high number of occurences for one building within a few months. And being that everything often makes me think of the Catholic Church and its fight against the ways of the world, this situation did just that.

In today's society where sex is being thrown at us left and right, and we cannot excape it whereever we turn (for instance, to shield my eyes from the scantilly clad women on campus, I took to looking at the ground, but there are flyers for bars that have scantilly clad women on the ground - the only other option I have is to read a book), it is often hard to figure out what is real and what is not. We are blessed by the gift of the Church to instruct us in such matters, and it is with the Church's advice that we need to fight back against the culture that creeps in silence, trying to grab us when we least expect it.

Pope Paul VI made an amazing prediction in Humanae Vitae (sect. 17 I think) about the future of the world if we continue to demean human sexuality and the human person. His prediction explains why pornography has become so rampant and almost socially exceptable. But, what I have noticed as more and more reports of "peeping toms" have come in to the administration office for Resident Life is that it seems that pornography is not enough for people anymore. Looking at pictures was not enough and thence came pornographic movies. It seems now that these movies are not stimulating enough for some people, so much so that they have now taken to going into a woman's bathroom and peeping over the curtains to watch the girl shower. How sick is that!

If you think that my connection has gone a little to far, then just talk to me 10 years, rather 5 years, down the road, and we can talk about the current state of "fulfilling" sexual desires. I'd rather be wrong about this than say "I told you so." But, at society's current rate, do not be surprised if the correlation is truly founded in its causation.