The Modern Transmutation Of Traditional Chastity View

Traditional Chinese society regarded gender morality as the primary field and contents of social ethics, so the chastity of sexual relations between the male and female has been thought of as one kind of system and obligation and also has been valued as one important portion for abiding by ethic-oriented relations, which derived a series of strict and complicated etiquettes and tightly controlled the male and female, especially female, under chastity from physiology to mind. However, the traditional chastity not only prevented the male and female together, but also trampled the dignity of human being, which disregarded people's emotional requirements. From the past to now,with the overwhelming impact of market-oriented economy, people's individual consciousness and emotional requirements has became stronger gradually, and meanwhile people has transferred their viewpoints to sexual relations from propagation to entertainment, in addition the intense western free thought about sex has been penetrated too. All of these indicated modern chastity presented the tendency with diversity. This tendency presents in real life in the form of decreasing of marriage stability, increasing of extramarital affair as well as sexual relations outside marriage, commercializing and tooling of sex. Family is the cell of social, so relation between the genders is the origin of all social activities, and social order depends on people's reasonable adjust and control to their sex instinct. Only when the morality realizes restriction to willful desire, the dignity of people can be displayed, and people can develop fully. It should be fully affirmed that people's sex activity is not just"free love"of emotional indulgence and physical outlet, actually the sex activity has a obvious character of society and civilization. The modern sexual love should be based on rules of freedom, falling in love, equality, and responsibility. The future healthy chastity view should develop as the following transformations: from unequal requirements between the male and female to mutual equality, and from single physical loyalty to uniform of physical loyalty and psychical loyalty, and from past absolute loyalty to currently relative loyalty.