2. Pornography vs Chastity
And
How Society Works
Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D.
CONVERGENCE
LITHICUM HEIGHTS, MD
April 13, 2011

3. Fundamental Tasks Of the Individual Gov Market School Church Family
There are five major institutions in society but they exist at the individual level too!
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
In which five major tasks are accomplished by that individual in his / her life :
Begetting and forming the next generation
Dealing with transcendent truths
Learning and teaching
Using physical force (locus of power) for the common good
Taking care of material needs through exchange of goods and services

4. Fundamental Capacities
Force /
Benevolence
Work
Intelligence
Reflection
Sexuality
These five institutions harness five fundamental and different capacities of man:
His brain power (schooling)
His work power (marketplace)
His capacity to understand existence (religion)
His capacity for physical force
His sexuality

5. Fundamental Tasks Of the Couple Gov Market Gov Market School School
Church
Church
Family
Family
There are five major institutions in society but they are also present and fundamentally necessary for every married couple to be a fully effective married couple
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
In which five major tasks are accomplished:
Begetting and forming the next generation
Dealing with transcendent truths
Learning and teaching
Using physical force (locus of power) for the common good
Taking care of material needs through exchange of goods and services

6. Fundamental Tasks Of the Family Gov Market School Church Family Gov
There are five major institutions in society
And they flow from the individual, to the couple
And through them to their children
Who are thus gradually taught how to be so in their own lives.
Thus is the competent mature citizen formed – capable of all five tasks.
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
In which five major tasks are accomplished:
Begetting and forming the next generation
Dealing with transcendent truths
Learning and teaching
Using physical force (locus of power) for the common good
Taking care of material needs through exchange of goods and services
Church
Church
Family
Family

7. Fundamental Tasks Of Society Gov Market School Church Family Gov
Couple
Church
Family
Gov
Market
School
There are five major institutions in society:
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
In which five major tasks are accomplished:
Begetting and forming the next generation
Dealing with transcendent truths
Learning and teaching
Using physical force (locus of power) for the common good
Taking care of material needs through exchange of goods and services
Church
Family

8. & Produce the Next Generation
Fundamental Needs
Of Society
Safety
& Justice
Material Goods
To Know
Goodness
& Meaning
To Mate
& Produce the Next Generation
There are five major institutions in society:
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
In which five major needs are met:
Society’s need to continue to exist
The need to understand / grapple with the big questions of existence and right and wrong
The need to understand and learn (and to be taught)
The need to protect the common good against its physical enemies.
The need for food, clothing, shelter, heat and other material goods.

9. Belonging: Male + Female
Society At Large
Family
Child / Adult
Father
Mother
There are five major institutions in society:
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
And they are formed first in each parents individual capacity to do the five tasks
Then in the couples capacity to cooperate on the five basic tasks
From whom their children learn and by whom they are formed in the five basic tasks
And thus we get the competent adult citizen --- mainly from the family!

10. Society’s Foundational Relationship
Thus the marital relationship is fundamental to the strength of the child.
All other things being equal the strength of the child depends on the strength of the marital relationship: how much the married couple have their act together – together!
But that togetherness in turn is dependent on their relationship with God (and there are myriad data to illustrate this.. Check out
Thus the child thrives most in the intact married family that worships weekly (at least).

11. Marriage / Child Relationship
The Non-Thriving
Marriage / Child Relationship
When the parents are at odds and in conflict, the child picks it up and is in conflict him or herself.
Clinical psychologists have practices full of children who are split within themselves because their parents do not have their act together, together.

12. Number of Non-Marital Sexual Partners
Versus Percent in a Stable Marriage
Source NSFG 1995
Chastity and later divorce / breakup
Here is the impact --- in the natural order outside of grace --- of monogamy on the stability of marriage.
The first bar is the woman who has never had sexual intercourse outside of marriage (0 partners outside of marriage). 80% of such women in the United States have stable marriages … stay united to their husbands. The rest of the chart tells the rest of the story: the more sexual partners the more likely they are to divorce.
Even having one partner brings the rate of divorce very close to one in two chances (54 %).
The 20% divorce rate of monogamous women may be linked to the men they marry to some degree. We have no data on these men, nor on how monogamous they were also.

14. Percentage Who Have Ever Used Marijuana
by Number of Sexual Partners, America Overall
Source: NLSY79 Child and Young Adult Survey ( )
90%
80%
77%
70%
69%
60%
58%
Percentage Who Have Ever Used Marijuana
50%
40%
44%
30%
34%
20%
10%
None
One
Two
Three
More than Three
Number of Sexual Partners
Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
MARRIAGE AND RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

15. Percentage Who Are “Heavy Drinkers” by Number of Sexual Partners, America Overall
Source: NLSY79 Child and Young Adult Survey ( )
45%
40%
41%
35%
30%
31%
25%
Percentage Who Are "Heavy Drinkers"
20%
21%
15%
17%
10% 9% 5% 0%
None
One
Two
Three
More than Three
Number of Sexual Partners
Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
MARRIAGE AND RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

16. Percentage Who Have Been Convicted of a Crime
by Number of Sexual Partners, America Overall
Source: NLSY79 Child and Young Adult Survey ( )
35%
33%
30%
25%
24%
20%
Percentage Who Have Ever Been Convicted of a Crime
18%
15%
13%
10%
11% 5% 0%
None
One
Two
Three
More than Three
Number of Sexual Partners
Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
MARRIAGE AND RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

18. Percentage Who Are “Heavy Drinkers”
by Current Religious Attendance and Number of Sexual Partners, America Overall
Source: NLSY79 Child and Young Adult Survey ( )
45%
44%
40%
35%
32%
30%
25%
Percentage Who Are "Heavy Drinkers"
20%
15%
14%
10%
PROMISCUOUS** 5% 0% 4%
CHASTE*
NEVER
WEEKLY
Current Religious Attendance and Number of Sexual Partners Combined
Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
MARRIAGE AND RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
*No sexual partners if the individual is single, only one sexual partner if the individual is married.
**Have had more than three sexual partners in a lifetime.

19. Percentage of Women Who Have Had an Unwed Pregnancy
by Current Religious Attendance and Number of Sexual Partners,
Source: NLSY79 Child and Young Adult Survey ( )
60%
53%
50%
45%
40%
Percentage of Women Who Have Had
an Unwed Pregnancy
30%
20%
10%
PROMISCUOUS** 0% 0% 0%
CHASTE*
NEVER
WEEKLY
Current Religious Attendance and Number of Sexual Partners Combined
Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
MARRIAGE AND RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
*No sexual partners if the individual is single, only one sexual partner if the individual is married.
**Have had more than three sexual partners in a lifetime.

20. The More Sexual Partners the More Likely to Abort
Source NSFG 1995 60 52 50 43 39 40 34 31
Percent who have abortions later 30 25 19 20 18
Abortion
The monogamous woman (zero non-marital sexual partners) is the least likely to abort. The more sexual partners in a life time the more likely a woman is to have an abortion (and from other data, the more likely she is to have multiple abortions also). 12 10 8 1 2 3 4 5
6-10
11-15
16-20
21+
NUMBER OF NON MARITAL SEXUAL PARTNERS IN LIFETIME

21. Non-Marital Sexual Partners and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, National Survey of Family Growth, 1995
60%
55.21%
49.45%
49.99%
49.89%
50%
47.55%
44.02%
42.66%
40.02%
40%
32.89%
Percent of Sexually Active Women Aged with Children
30%
20%
16.29%
10%
1.71% 0%
Virgin at
Had Pre- 1 2 3 4 5
6-10.
11-15.
16-20
21+
Time of
Marital Sex
Out of wedlock births
The more non-marital sexual partners a woman has the more likely she is to give birth outside of marriage – of course!
But it is to be noted that virginity before marriage has a massive impact, as does non-virginity before marriage: in very different directions.
First
with First
Marriage
Husband
Number of Lifetime Voluntary Non-Marital Sexual Partners

22. One Partner in Lifetime by Worship and Family Structure
70.0%
60.0%
62.2%
50.0%
50.3%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.5%
13.1%
10.0%
All Other Structures
0.0%
Family Structure
Never
Intact
Weekly
Church Attendance

28. Number of Non-Marital Sexual Partners
Versus Percent in a Stable Marriage
Source NSFG 1995
Thus the significance of this chart.
Of all the charts I have ever composed or come across this is the single most significant one by far --- as far as the future of society is concerned.
Remember again the impact of chastity before marriage on the later stability of marriage!
One extra partner before marriage puts a woman in the 1 in 2 chances of having a divorce later (almost).
Two puts her beyond that!
Marriage and chastity go hand in hand.

29. Society’s Foundational Relationship
To recap:
There are five major institutions in society:
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
All stem from the work (5 tasks) performed between husband and wife.
That they be performed together depends, more than anything else, on their chastity, their exclusive fidelity to each other, and on their cooperation with God in worship. Thus is produced the strong citizen of the next generation– a strong society in the next generation.

30. Within all the 5 Institutions: The single most important virtue?
Church: Piety
School: Interested-Endurance
Government: Justice
Marketplace: Honesty
Family: Chastity
For religion: piety … the attitude of the creature before the Creator.
For School or learning .. The pursuit of the topic until the mind has the satisfaction of knowing it understands the topic or the issue at hand. Correspondingly for the teacher – the developed capacity to elicit this persistence from pupil.
For Government: Justice. Once a government becomes unjust the only thing to do with it is to get rid of it.
Marketplace: Honesty is the most fundamental virtue. More than hard work. You will not do business again with some one who cheats you.
In Family it is not love (though that is the most important) but it is chastity, for without that you do not have the family whole but broken (and with that brokenness, a whole host of deficits).

31.
And over the last fifty years more and more children have experienced the real, physical splitting of parents from each other – rejecting each other and walking away – either before marriage (thus leading to Out of Wedlock births) or after marriage in divorce.
In 1950 for every 100 children born
12 experienced the splitting of their parents that year:
4 out of wedlock
8 through their parents divorcing that year
By the year 2000 that had risen to 60! (the measure at the side is misleading!)
And it has grown still more since then.
Children thrive less when that happens.
The new society built on them is weaker as a result.
Let us look at the ways in which this is so.

32.
And over the last fifty years more and more children have experienced the real, physical splitting of parents from each other – rejecting each other and walking away – either before marriage (thus leading to Out of Wedlock births) or after marriage in divorce.
In 1950 for every 100 children born
12 experienced the splitting of their parents that year:
4 out of wedlock
8 through their parents divorcing that year
By the year 2000 that had risen to 60! (the measure at the side is misleading!)
And it has grown still more since then.
Children thrive less when that happens.
The new society built on them is weaker as a result.
Let us look at the ways in which this is so.