Where Has True Passion Gone?

by Casey Hassenstein
Where has true passion gone? Today, passion and sex are compatriots being thoughtlessly splashed about in the pages of magazines and uploaded via racy photos from celebrities on the Internet. Sex sells – especially when it involves whips and chains and lacy, forbidden fantasies of the flesh.
I long for the days when passion was not overtly sexual, but linked to the truest virtue of all: love. When longing and hope were key elements woven together to overcome insurmountable obstacles and reach a fairy tale ending. Jane Austen in her final novel, Persuasion, reminds us that ...