Having read Virginia Ironside's article on why she believes women have sex (News, 13 September) I wondered if it could be true. And I've come to the conclusion that she probably is right. And how sad is that.

Look at the mess the country is in – the ever-increasing divorce rate, the growing number of babies born outside of marriage (now 33% of all babies born), the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and the growth of socially dysfunctional families.

The 1960s saw the modern dawn of sexual 'liberation' with the advent of the birth-control pill. Since then, further 'progress' has been made. But women were not 'liberated' by the sexual revolution, rather they became even more enslaved to sex. And the happiness and contentment they sought has evaded them

The right attitude to sex, the real purpose for which God created sex, is not something with which the majority of men and women are acquainted.

Ms Ironside's attitude – regarding sex as a tool and excusing herself for the crudity of her own chosen expression – is all too common.

Love ought to be the primary reason for men and women having sexual relations, but within the sacred state of God-ordained marriage.

However, this laudable objective is lost in this sex-obsessed world. Even children are being sexualised by the media – through TV soaps, films, books and magazines, popular music, and the dances they are encouraged to perform.

The results of all of this negative behaviour will be an increasingly dysfunctional, unhappy and unfulfilled society. The history of fallen empires, the Roman Empire being a classic example, is that the societies which followed free-for-all sexual mores destroyed themselves.

Unless we address these issues and return to moral codes of conducting ourselves, the same fate lies ahead for today's world.

Michael O'Byrne,

Main Street,

Kilcar,

Co Donegal.