Christianity and Sex

spiritletter · Post by **spiritletter** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:41 am

I'm sixty five, so it's easier for me to discipline my sexual instinct, but I remember being young and being driven by sexual desire to the point that it frequently disrupted my life. To me, Christianity, or that version which was constructed by the church long after the death of Christ, has not sufficiently dealt with the subject, and has no advice other than "just say no." I think the progressive church needs to deal with this as well, because I see no counseling about it anywhere.

We live in a culture that is conditioned by sexual imagery, which does not make it any easier. About half of what I see on television is using flesh to sell products. However, there are cultures in the world where women go bare breasted and it does not create the kind of scene as say, the famous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction created at the Superbowl.

In scripture we are cautioned against sex, and frequently that rhetoric becomes a kind of anti-woman rhetoric (Eve and the Serpent, etc.)

Somehow, understanding is missing on contemporary spiritual discourse, and I would like to open a topic discussion about contemporary Christianity in all its forms and the response to human sexual desire. I would like compassion to be the guiding principal rather than a lot of strident moralizing.

Anybody game?

DarkMaster24 · Post by **DarkMaster24** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:57 pm

I couldn't be a Christian even if I wanted to. I could never wait before marriage to have sex...that just seems suicidal.

I'd rather live and make the most of this life here rather than hope for the best and devalue this life on an uncertainty.

Intrepidman · Post by **Intrepidman** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:00 pm

DarkMaster24 wrote:I couldn't be a Christian even if I wanted to. I could never wait before marriage to have sex...that just seems suicidal.

I'd rather live and make the most of this life here rather than hope for the best and devalue this life on an uncertainty.

Trust me, especially AFTER marriage you will have to wait to have sex.

DarkMaster24 · Post by **DarkMaster24** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:06 pm

That may be true, but still I'd like to have as much sex as I can before I get married. Not that I'd ever cheet on my wife of course, but yeah.