Public Displays of Affection or Public Displays of Sex
This quote below struck me as being very profound as I have been thinking about sex a lot lately. I am thinking about Sex and all that sexuality encompasses because I am talking about Sex Issues with the Youth Group tonight and in the coming weeks, and I always am frustrated with the students (and adults) views on sex, and because I am dating and I know how much of a struggle it is for me to live like I actually believe that Sex is something the is serious and sacred; I DO BELIEVE THIS. So the quote:
"As I'm beginning to understand more of this, I realize why masturbation and porn ravaged my relationship with God so much. When I view pornographic images or movies, I feed the idea that sex is designed to be put on display. But the truth is that sex is at its best when experienced as an expression of intimacy in a marriage. Pornography lies about sexual fulfillment by disregarding the emotional and spiritual results of sex and exaggerating the physical satisfaction. Rather than focusing on just one aspect, God designed the emotional, spiritual, and physical effects of sex to blend as worship of Him. Marriage is a blessing from God, and sex is part of giving thanks for it." - Anonymous
So my thoughts with this come more from the line "feed the idea that sex is designed to be put on display" This is so true that we are being feed this idea, and I believe this LIE. There is so much wrong with this that I don't even think we realize how far off the narrow path we have gone. I think that maybe because we see so much PDA and PDS that it is hard for us to really live our lives differently. I would some times how much of the PDA we see and do is even just feeding the lies more.
Maybe we have to make our sexual relations more of a private thing again to only be shared with our husband and wife and not be displayed for everyone else.
Maybe we have to consider more about what we where and what we joke about.
Maybe we have to be more careful about what lies we let into our thoughts.
I could go on more and more and more about these things, but What do other people think?
4 comments:
Mike- i love how you are so open and honest with your youth group. Keep it up. I think you raise a very good point and that the media and the like are obsessed with showing us sex, making it cheap and trashy.
I think that it does need to be made a private thing again. BUT completing isolating ourselves from sex is bad. Parent's need to discuss it with their kids and the church needs to be open and honest about it as well. Let's not turn back to the 1950's when any mention of sex was taboo. Sex is good. Lust is bad. Society today is mixing the two and wants us to overdose on lust, which is Satan's cheap verson of the wonderful gift of sex that God gave us.
Oh Yeah, Sex is Good... From what I hear.
Lust is Bad... This I have experienced.
Yes, I am dating a Awesome woman of God. Who would have thought, Mike not being single? Her name is Katie and is from Jenison a half hour away from Hamilton. We met this summer at a wedding.
This is to your reply to the comment that was deleted Matt.
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