In the case of my clients, I always try to help them express their honest
feelings about sex.
Start by talking about
your feelings about sex, such as the messages you received growing up.
It's normal for teens to have many questions and lots of thoughts and
feelings about sex and sexuality, and parents have an important role to play.
The main characters have become so much a part of popular culture that many women use them as reference points to describe their own patterns and
feelings about sex.
I was aware that if you are not feeling great about sex, you probably don't want to answer some questions that some blooming lactation consultant has asked you, so I tried to encourage those women to come forward and answer those questions too and talk about their negative
feelings about sex.
Parents can help foster healthy
feelings about sex if they answer kids» questions in an age - appropriate way.
Moralism, concerned with controlling surface behavior, arouses neurotic guilt
feelings about sex, anger, and ethical trivia, and is the product of an authoritarian conscience.
/ What are
your feelings about sex?
Open discussion of the parents»
feelings about sex should also be encouraged in good parent education.
Basic attitudes and
feelings about sex (and the physical side of human life in general) are caught by children in the home.
Parents» responses to their child's normal exploratory and pleasure - producing sex play color the child's
feelings about sex.
In contrast to the left - over Victorian attitudes and
feelings about sex still to be noted among some individuals and communities (attitudes toward sex education, for example), are the increasingly mechanized and exploitative and depersonalizing attitudes toward sex which are prevalent in our society.
Overcoming embarrassment derived from left - over childhood
feelings about sex helps free a couple to talk about and explore their mutual pleasure.
How would that change the way
we felt about sex as single women in our 20s and 30s?
Think about how
you feel about sex.
Ask yourself: How do
I feel about sex?
If you don't check in with your partner (and yourself) about how they're
feeling about your sex life, you might wind up in a situation that isn't really doing it for you anymore.
In other words, a person's reasons for having sex with their partner on a particular day are associated with how
they feel about their sex life and their relationship.1
This process can be frustrating and takes patience and a genuine interest in how your partner is
feeling about sex.
But what you may not have learned, and counseling can bring out, is how someone of the opposite sex thinks and
feels about sex — not just the mechanics but the emotions that surround this important part of intimacy.
This is either great news or tragic, depending on how you're
feeling about your sex life.
Not exact matches
In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and
feelings: Research also shows that talking
about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even
sex.
This area processes rewarding
feelings about things like food,
sex, money and social acceptance.
He's never pushy
about sex like some guys I've dated, never tries to guilt me or pressure me into things, and has proven on several occasions that if I don't
feel up to it or I need to stop halfway through, there are no hard
feelings whatsoever.»
And finally, a lot of people have
felt guilty
about having
sex at some point too.
i saw poll results recently which indicated that 3 of 4 christians
felt «strongly»
about same -
sex marriage and abortion, but only 1 of 4
felt «strongly»
about adopting orphans or sheltering homeless.
however, those numbers flip for those that did not consider themselves christians — 3/4
feel «strongly»
about adopting orphans, 1/4
feel «strongly»
about same -
sex marriage.
To hold that same -
sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the
feelings fostered by any kind of consensual
sex; that there is nothing special
about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.
Pastors and mentors will of course
feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions
about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to
sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.
I
felt like God didn't care
about me and even told him it was his fault that I had to turn to the
sex industry as a last resort.
During their discussion, Laura told Mat that she sometimes wondered if he still had some of the
feelings about her as a female —
feelings that went far beyond interest in
sex, per se.
Surely you're not saying that teaching
sex only within marriage was the cause of her shame, because if so ANY teaching
about «safer»
sex would have had the same result... because she was used she would have still
felt used.
At this point he was able to talk
about his
feeling that Laura seldom demonstrated her interest in him sexually by initiating
sex play.
Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful
feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell,
sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.
A frustrated wife confronted her husband with her disappointment at the shallow, mechanical rut into which their
sex life had slipped: «I get the «now it's Friday night again»
feeling about our love life.
He said: «To most English people under 40 a discussion of gay bishops or same -
sex marriage
feels as relevant and inviting as one
about women being allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.»
Sometimes parents themselves, bombarded with nannying advice
about how they should teach their children to be «safe»,
feel that they are letting their children down if they don't give their ten year old explicit
sex instruction.
Regardless of what you think,
feel, or believe
about the place same -
sex marriage has in the United States, you must now live in the reality that it is legal.
«What young people really need is not more talk
about the mechanics of
sex and contraception, but encouragement to develop the character qualities of stability, faithfulness and commitment - the qualities they will need to build a strong and lasting marriage based on something that runs deeper than
feelings and physical attraction.»
Sex, violence and finally death dominate his mature art, but his true subject is always his own
feelings, his passions
about his themes.
Ireland's recent decision to approve same -
sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country's Catholic reputation in ruins.Of course, this shift didn't come
about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the
feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.
Dan: We've heard stories where the wives are just so upset and
feel so bad [
about not being able to have
sex], and then their husbands put them down and yell at them too, and I go, «Why, why would you do that?»
R.A.: When it comes to your
sex life, have you
felt loss in not being able to enjoy
sex yourself or is more
feeling bad
about Dan?
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over
sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians
felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions
about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
... Now will you take sixty seconds to bring yourself to your present age, still a member of the other
sex... notice what you do differently than you did in real life... notice how you
feel about it all... (The leader waits at this point for
about sixty seconds.)
The fantasy of the unlived life also helps people to get in touch with their
feelings about their own and the other
sex.
The reason is that while porn causes people to
feel inadequate with their
sex life, many churches cause people to
feel inadequate
about their spiritual life.
Even though millennials
feel more open to things like pre-marital
sex and same -
sex marriage than their older siblings and parents and grandparents, they still
feel conflicted
about abortion.»
We need to help our children to understand and
feel good
about their sexuality, even in a time when
sex seems almost synonymous with fear and death.
Among those who
feel bound by it, what the churches say
about sex is life - saving.