To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > Health & Body Feb. 22, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/2000/02/22/chastity Moonies rally against "free sex" Waving signs declaring, "One man, one wife," students take to the streets of Seoul to promote chastity. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Hank Hyena Young, normal people are supposed to be obsessed with sex, right? Horniness is a healthy libidinous urge that helps promote the joyful reproduction of our species, correct? Naked World applauds the instinctive appetite for erotic intercourse that emerges in our adolescence, but there are apparently inhibited youth who disagree with this position. In Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 11, hundreds of humans in their early 20s rallied inexplicably against "free sex," according to AP Worldstream. The demonstration was co-sponsored and primarily attended by the "National Headquarters To Practice True Family Values," a group affiliated with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The "Pure Love Alliance," a Moonie splinter group of students who promote and celebrate virginity, also helped organize the anti-orgasmic gathering. The celibate crowd of 500 commenced the event by raising their right hands to vow an oath of chastity until marriage, before parading downtown for five city blocks. Leaflets promoting their fingers-off philosophy were distributed by the eager for abstinence marchers who waved puritanical placards proclaiming, "Free Sex: No," "One man, one wife" and "Extramarital affair, you are a witch." The rally climaxed in a plaza with the prudish participants from Korea, Japan, Europe, the United States and Latin America dancing to folk music and waving balloons. Vehement virgins interviewed by AP Worldstream expressed their enmity for American movies, magazines and pop culture because of their defiling influence on innocent souls. "In Korea, like other countries in the East, a lot of Westernization is going on promoting free sex," lamented Bow Jones, 21, of New York. One of the 79 Bulgarians in attendance, Diana van der Stok, 26, echoed the consensus complaint that young people were overly interested in sex. "It can be very satisfying in the beginning," she conceded, "but then it can result in a serious heartache." The Pure Love Alliance is planning its fourth international tour to promote its "Pure Love Pledge" in the United States and Europe. The not-too-exciting excursion will kick off in Chicago on July 22 and meander off to both coasts, with a hot continental rendezvous scheduled in our nation's capital on August 6. Naked World is brazenly hoping for a plane ticket to cover the ecstatic event. salon.com | Feb. 22, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer Hank Hyena is a former columnist for SF Gate, and a frequent contributor to Salon.