Category: Singleness Sexuality
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Sexuality For Singles (Part B)
Adolescence – 1 Childhood and adolescence are the beginning of our human experiences with sexuality. A percentage of children for various reasons will discover masturbation at a young age but will not have the knowledge or understanding to relate it to sexual things and it is best for parents to withhold the knowledge of sexual…
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Sexuality For Singles (Part A)
Introduction Well it’s time to start a new series and that will be about sexuality for Christian singles. This draws upon our earlier writings a this site, but we aim to present the materials in a new way, possibly with some new content also. This is actually the second publishing of this article because I…
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“Confessions of a Horny Christian Single Girl”
It’s been very refreshing to discover this blog and to understand the perspective expressed in it. As we have seen from some of the recent posts that have been put up, the evangelical purity movement, based on “complimentarian” theology, essentially teaches that women are lesser beings sexually, that women don’t have or shouldn’t have sexual…
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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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Single, Saved and Having Sex
…Most people agree that the Bible is pretty clear that sex outside of marriage is a spiritual no-no, but according to some reports, as many as 80 percent of young unmarried Christians are doing it anyway. A piece that originally appeared in the May issue of Ebony magazine takes a look at how people who…
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I Still Want It: Holy and Horny
…Because the Christian church has largely been silent on this topic, providing no practical guidance or solutions whatsoever, Christian singles have largely taken things into their own hands (literally — no pun intended, lol. I’ve heard some people call it “hand ministry,” “personal ministry” or “personal devotion.”)… We do what we can. Christian singles find…
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Masturbation and Christian Singles
Many Christian singles and not a few Christian pastors feel masturbation to orgasm is acceptable in order to: 1) relieve unabated sexual tension, and/or 2) to avoid sexual immorality. The catch is that there should be no lustful thoughts connected to the act.
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Masturbation Is A Blessing From God
Sex and sexuality are often difficult topics for Christians to discuss. There are also a wide range of differing views on topics such as masturbation. We recommend that if you find some of the concepts and issues discussed in this page challenging, pray and seek your own counsel or peace with God about these matters.…