The Portrayal of Women, Love and Relationships

“Somehow we have all become experts on the opposite sex, and in doing so have become the world’s biggest critics,” Rabbi Shmuley states in this series on how our culture views women, love, and relationships. Why does our society base the desire for intimacy on an infatuation with physical attraction as opposed to emotion?  Rabbi Shmuley Boteach explores this question as well as many others related to the negative portrayal of women in modern society and the influence of popular culture on relationships today.  

Rabbi Shmuley discuses the multi-dimensional relationships that men and women share in a society plagued with irreverence – from the dependency of men and women on one another to secrets behind the perfect relationship to differences between various cultures relations with the opposite sex.  

As young men and women continue to in grow up in an age dependant upon a popular culture suffused with indecency, the family as we once knew it continues to disintegrate The perception that stability and continuity in intimacy is boring contributes to problems in today’s marriages, and the true meaning of the word “love” is gradually losing its significance. Rabbi Shmuley addresses the root of these problems through discussions of prostitution, meaningless relational pursuits, and the desensitization of the genders.