Sexual revolution breeds moral depravity, moral depravity breeds anarchy and anarchy breeds totalitarianism.

That was the theme for the lecture titled "Libido Dominandi: Sexual Revolution and Political Control," delivered by author E. Michael Jones at 8 p.m. yesterday in 112 Chambers building. Jones, whose lecture was sponsored by the pro-life group Penn State Students for Life, is the editor of Culture Wars magazine and the author of numerous books. He is known for "telling the story behind the story of the sexual revolution," Ben Douglass, vice president of Students for Life, said in his introduction.

Jones addressed sexual liberation throughout history and today as a means of revolution and cultural control. He referred to it as "probably the most insidious and the most successful form of social engineering, and one of the most effective forms of political control."

Jones' speech began with an account of Israeli military forces using pornography as a psychological weapon against Palestinian citizens on the West Bank. He used this to establish pornography not as a form of freedom, but as a pervasive weapon in a cultural offensive. "It's like chlorine gas," he said.

A similar cultural offensive is taking place in the United States, Jones said, with the concept of the "freedom" of sexual liberation being used as a tool for what he referred to as "social engineering."

"The premise of this speech is that the same thing that happened on Palestine's television is happening in American television stations," he said.

Jones detailed various examples of revolution precipitated by this type sexual liberation throughout history, from the fall of Rome, to the Enlightenment, which he referred to as a "black operation" for social control.

Sexual liberation leads to social engineering because, according to Thomas Aquinas, "Lust darkens the mind," Jones said. "If you can't see, you can't fight back, and if you can't fight back you're not a formidable opponent."

Jones said that historically, these types of revolutions are always the same. As soon as the revolutionaries reject "moral law," they subject themselves to rule by leaders who have no moral law, he said, and are forced to live in a world in which they are slaves to their own passion.

"The sexual revolution is the bait," Jones said.