Today we are in a neo-pagan culture sexually that also has much confusion about the body. We may be even be more confused than the Corinthians, for we have more theories than were available then, and we get mixed signals from our leaders. Reports about Monica Lewinsky suggest that she was like hundreds of young courtesans over the centuries who used their bodies to get close to power. Scandals have, of course, surrounded the thrones of the world for as long as we have records and village gossips have seldom been without tales to tell about people closer to home. What is new is the loss of a sense of scandal.
Nothing seems shocking.
And that is what is shocking. Perhaps, as some say, we should try to separate the issues. Maybe we should say that what happens in one department of life has nothing to do with another department. There is some wisdom in this. Sometimes, creative people in some areas of life are incompetent in other areas.