Sentences with phrase «of sex desire»

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But while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved more than two dozen drugs targeting a range of male sexual matters, pharma has turned a cold shoulder to female dysfunction, despite the prevalence of conditions like hypoactive sexual desire disorder, a chronic disinterest in sex estimated to affect 8 to 14 percent of American women ages 20 to 49.

Rather, what it appears to imply is that women who maintain a certain level of comfort and awareness regarding their sexuality and desires are more likely to know when they truly want to have casual sex, as opposed to going along with someone who approaches them just because.

The essential feature of HSDD in women is a lack of desire for sex that causes distress.

The hormone is part of what drives desire, fantasy, and thoughts about sex, and even helps provide the energy for sex in women, says Linda Bradley, MD, vice chair and ob - gyn for the Women's Health Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland.

I think what our sex - crazed culture really wants is what sex promises: the feeling of being desired.

This has rarely been done, as we often confuse our God - given desire for sex with our misguided, self - centered feelings of lust.

Lust and promiscuity are one thing... but being born with an innate desire to be partnered with someone of the same sex is no more sinful than being born with an innate desire to be partnered with someone of the opposite sex.

Like I said, because a woman is the OBJECT of a man's desire does not mean that her sexuality is important or necessary to the sex scene.

«The journey is one of recognising what I feel: desires for food, desires for sex, desires for success... there are so many of them.

The same deconstruction also undermines the notion of same - sex desire and same - sex marriage.

Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.

«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.

This concerns the very experience of love, attraction and erotic desire; that experience which is sadly more and more becoming the main criterion by which the act of sex is evaluated.

She had apparently got to the point where she honestly did not know that a child is the natural fruit of a union between a man and a woman: in her understanding «sex» is something done for pleasure, according to one's desires, whether lesbian or homosexual or whatever, and procreation an entirely different matter connected with options presented at various times, possibly involving in - vitro fertilization and test - tubes.

It would imply that celibacy is a repression of the desire for sex, and that this desire is an urge that needs to be «released».

Some concession is also made now to the effect that having desire for persons of the same sex may not in itself be sinful.

David Oliphant, an archdeacon in the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, has perceptively remarked that those who condemn homosexuals have very little appreciation of what goes on within the youth who comes to feel the pain and pleasure of sexual feelings and desire for comfort from someone of their own sex.

We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression.

Sex between unmarried adults might be inside that gray area between the ideal and the immoral if, first, no one's marriage is being violated by either party; second, if it is a union of love and caring, not just a union of convenience and desire; third, if sex is shared only after other things have been shared, other things such as time, values, friendship, communication and a sense of deep trust and emotional responsibility; fourth, if it is both loving and discreet, private, shielded from those who would not or could not understand; if it is valued as a bond between the two people involved and between them alone, never violating the sacredness of the exclusive quality of that momeSex between unmarried adults might be inside that gray area between the ideal and the immoral if, first, no one's marriage is being violated by either party; second, if it is a union of love and caring, not just a union of convenience and desire; third, if sex is shared only after other things have been shared, other things such as time, values, friendship, communication and a sense of deep trust and emotional responsibility; fourth, if it is both loving and discreet, private, shielded from those who would not or could not understand; if it is valued as a bond between the two people involved and between them alone, never violating the sacredness of the exclusive quality of that momesex is shared only after other things have been shared, other things such as time, values, friendship, communication and a sense of deep trust and emotional responsibility; fourth, if it is both loving and discreet, private, shielded from those who would not or could not understand; if it is valued as a bond between the two people involved and between them alone, never violating the sacredness of the exclusive quality of that moment.

Celibacy is not simply the absence of sex but a spiritual discipline, by which we learn to place God, sex, and Christian community in the right perspective and understand the value of controlling sexual desires.

Some persons experience sexual desire and attraction only or primarily to persons of the same sex; whatever they are, they are not heterosexual.

Holloway follows the traditional notion of the «remedy for concupiscence», saying that it is permitted to seek sex «for the tempering of disordered natural desire», [7] «in remedium concupiscentiae», as long as this is done in such a way as not to thwart the primary end of the act.

The position of those who would affirm sax - sex relationships in the church are not putting a heavier reliance on «feeling» than others, and are not denying that there are «carnal» desires of all sorts which may gain an unhealthy control over any of us.

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

Learning to read the nonverbal language is a part of the enjoyment of married sex — for example, recognizing the signals of heightened desire in one's mate or, during intercourse, when the other is ready for consummating that experience of loving passion.

And it fails to interrogate and thereby complicate same - sex desire in its rush to accept it as part and parcel of God's good creation.

Sex provides the crucial case of desire at odds with devotion.

Rather the conference was about the possibility of leading transformed lives, not enslaved to same - sex attractions or any other desires to do what God expressly forbids.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

Planned Parenthood promises its customers a highly desired but improbable package - inexpensive freedom, safe sex and personal autonomy - which, upon failure, produces substantial revenue and abortions 90 - plus percent of the time.

«Heterosexuality» only dethrones Jesus as the norm if we think that Jesus» life and ministry somehow subvert the normative (creation) order of opposite - sex sexual desires, even if we do not use the language of «orientation» to describe those desires.

Matthew Lee Anderson is certainly right that «the singleness of Jesus does not put same - sex desires and opposite - sex desires on the same moral plane,» and I am terribly sorry if I seemed to imply otherwise!

Now for the hokum: his claim that there are no persisting internal desires in the vast majority of men and women that are properly ordered toward others of the opposite sex.

The singleness of Jesus does not put same - sex desires and opposite - sex desires on the same moral plane.

Sex is a desire common to most so it is this desire which is easy to use for purpose to example of inability to control desire once embraced.

And it seems that for a small minority of men and women there are persisting but disordered sexual desires for the same sex.

Most say that premarital sex between consenting adults is a normal expression of natural desires.

But just as in the realm of sex there may be people who evidently can not satisfy themselves, as in the realm of food there are gluttons, so in human relations some people seem to have an insatiable desire to use up the time of their friends until they use up their friends.

Again, a plausible scenario of the future might well include a picture of a husband and wife shopping at the local «sperm and egg bank» for the desired characteristics of sex, IQ, temperament, and eye and hair color for the new baby they want.

Homosexuality is generally defined in two ways: (1) the manifestation of sexual desire toward a member of one's own sex, and (2) erotic activity with a member of one's own sex.

It is commonly accepted that a person will continue to experience desire and even occasionally lapse into same - sex behavior as part of the overall conversion process.

The definitional slicing and dicing, the claim that the instruction means by «maturity» that one is happy being gay, rather than that, as it explicitly says, deep - seated same - sex desire is evidence of an «unfinished adolescence» — it is all evasion and mendacity.

Much has been written about the widely publicized sexual scandals of prominent ex-gays, but in the ex-gay movement it is far more scandalous to abandon Jesus than to yield to same - sex desire.

Those who are sharply critical of the instruction are slicing and dicing definitions of «transitory» and «deep - seated» same - sex desires, and disingenuously claiming to be puzzled by what on earth the instruction can mean by «gay culture.»

His view on sex is that it should be all about his wants and desires, and that the prize of him, his swanky pad and his helicopter is adequate compensation.

It's not to do with human nature per se; it's to do with sin: envy, jealousy, possessiveness, quarrelling, a lack of willingness to forgive and forget, infidelity, manipulation, the desire to control and dominate, lack of consideration in matters to do with running a home as well as in the bedroom (sex can be one of the highest expressions of love between a man and a woman; it can also be incredibly selfish); hearts that are consistently closed to new life.

This view of sex is pervasive, as many go to extraordinary lengths to fulfill their sexual desires, even when it's not good for them physically, spiritually, mentally or emotionally.

Usually such desires were for those of the opposite sex, but even that line was blurry, because as it turned out, once the generative purpose of sex had been severed, it often mattered very little who the heterosexual's mutual masturbatory partner was.

Because our post-Freudian world associates all physical attraction and interpersonal affection with genital erotic desire, intimate same - sex friendship and a chaste appreciation for the beauty of one's own sex have become all but impossible to achieve.

On this novel account, same - sex sex acts were wrong not because they spurn the rational - animal purpose of sex — namely the family — but rather because the desire for these actions allegedly arises from a distasteful psychological disorder.