Category: Sex Theology
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The Science AND Theology of Being Horny
…It is very surprising that many Christians advocate for and propagate men’s sexual drive without giving thought to the real what, why and wherefore of what they’re talking about from the perspective of both science and theology. Rather, they base this simply upon ‘male privilege’ and their imagined reality of the male anatomy, physiology and…
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How the Purity Movement Made Women Giddy About Dating Jesus, and Ashamed to Masturbate
…Many purity advocates teach that women aren’t very sexual, and so don’t need a way to vent their repressed sexual energy in their single years. But that’s not what I usually hear. “Dating Jesus” was just one of many work-arounds I heard about from women who wanted to remain pure but couldn’t deaden their sexual,…
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Memoirist: Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women’s Bodies As A ‘Threat’
When Linda Kay Klein was 13, she joined an evangelical church that prized sexual “purity” and taught that men and boys were sexually weak. According to Klein’s faith, girls and women were responsible for keeping male sexual desire in check by wearing modest clothing, maintaining a sexless mind and body and taking a “purity pledge,”…
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How I broke free of the Evangelical ‘purity’ movement
…The excruciating worry was driven by her years growing up as an Evangelical in the Midwest in the late 1980s and early 1990s — and by the purity movement that continues to this day. The first virginity-pledge program, True Love Waits, was started in 1993 by the Southern Baptist Convention and now claims more than…
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“Our sexuality is rooted in the nature of God himself”
Glynn Harrison speaks on the beauty of God’s plan for sex and analyses the impacts of the Sexual Revolution. Q. In what ways have Christians failed to present a biblical view of sex? A. I think our main failing is that we perpetuate a shame culture around sex, linked with ignorance, fear and avoidance. …In…