Sentences with phrase «rather than sex»

She begins by pointing out that our first instinct is to seek contact and comforting connection rather than sex or aggression.

Being attracted to someone mostly because of the conversations you have (rather than the sex you share) is not an iron - clad guarantee of long - term relationship success, but it certainly helps.

The board found that «discrimination on the basis of breastfeeding, if it is discrimination, is discrimination on the basis of family status rather than sex or gender.»

In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president, and while it is true there were questions about her eligibility, that was because of her age rather than sex.

He's described his work as being «about pornography and news reports from warzones rather than sex and death.»

«Rather than sex, these paintings are narratives of their own making.

This advice has a familiar ring, of course: propped up by a bit of Freudianism and some tag - lines from the social sciences about the well - rounded personality, preparation for woman's chief career, marriage, and the unfemininity of deep involvement with work rather than sex, it is still the mainstay of the Feminine Mystique.

Cleopatra emerges as a groundbreaking female leader, relying on her wits, determination, and political acumen rather than sex appeal to astutely wield her power in order to get the job done.

A powerful, deeply personal and often lyrical memoir of a woman learning to value herself as a person rather than a sex object, after years of sexual abuse by her father.

Audi is going for timeless subtlety rather than the sex appeal of the Mercedes C - Class or the boldness of the Lexus IS.

Some suggestive song lyrics and an awkward shower scene, based on a complex situation rather than sex, are played out on screen as well.

Sexuality is something to be repressed or at least released in a «harmless» way, resulting in a perverse obsession with the idea of sex rather than sex itself.

She is looking for companionship rather than sex — for someone who wants her for herself.

You will see that in many sugar daddy relationships the man actually tries to concentrate on the romance part rather than the sex part and we all know what happens when women are showered with love.

«There is good lobbying and bad lobbying, just like there is good sex and bad sex, but I think most of us would prefer to have bad sex rather than no sex at all.»

To make the latter claim is to run counter to the approach of much popular and well - intentioned Catholic thought, thought that has tended to so exalt the goodness of sex that it has often seemed to imply that marriage is for sex rather than sex being for family.

Not exact matches

That brought to 21 the number of cases of people who contracted the disease locally, rather than while traveling overseas or having sex with a carrier.

Reformed pimp, Isaiah Reed, talks about why girls are shipped overseas to work in the sex trade rather than used in the United States.

Florida's public health department has said that there are now a total of 14 cases in the community that were likely contracted from local mosquitoes rather than from someone traveling abroad or having sex with a partner who was infected while abroad.

A study finds more than half of American women would rather give up sex than their mobile devices.

We tell couples that just because they wait, their sex life will be great, rather than preparing them for the potential issues that might arise along the way.

One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.

It was, rather, to show proponents of same - sex marriage that «the other side» is reasonable and that their arguments are worth engaging, rather than dismissing out of hand as irrational and merely or privately religious.

There is an argument that prejudice, rather than real moral and prudential concerns, motivates the bans on same - sex marriage.

[I disagree with the assertion that Mars Hill is a cult, but I think Fred's point about our tendency to see sexual betrayal as bad «because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal» is spot - on, and his concerns about Driscoll's preoccupation with sex and power are, of course, warranted.]

The challenge facing the church is to discard the unproven scientific theories of the 1980's and 1990's; to understand the scientific evidence that shows non-reverable sexual orientations; and to give the gay believer in Christ mercy to be married for life to the same sex spouse (rather than to continue to insist on the sacrifice of celibacy).

But we are presently in a culture so estranged from our bodies, and male - female relationships are in such an overall mess (with sex redefined in terms of power rather than vulnerability), that it is hard to know where to start.

The same confusion leads many Christians to see sexual predation as bad because it involves sex rather than because it is predatory.

It's the confusion that sees sexual betrayal as bad because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal.

But the purity movement doesn't want the dangers of sex realistically discussed or it would be behind truly educational sex education rather than abstinence only programs.

Very often this diversity is delineated entirely in terms of the sex, race, or ethnicity of the person or group speaking rather than any substantive difference in moral or political aims.

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Correction: In describing J. Michael Bailey's study of identical - twin pairs in his «Same - Sex Science» (February), Stanton L. Jones should have referred to 41 rather than 42 pairs studied.

Whenever sex is these things, it can not help but be wrong, for it destroys rather than creates life.

But it is through the mutual self - giving in love that our humanity is established (whether in sex or beyond), rather than the abstract experience of pleasure or the fulfillment of a craving or felt need.

I also think many efforts at sex education — those built merely around disease and pregnancy prevention rather than human dignity — have hurt people and diminished civil society.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

As one woman painfully shared with me, «he chooses to have sex with women onscreen, rather than make love to me».

If we succeed in changing the hierarchies we have imposed on people according to their race and color and sex, then we can have a world of persons, of horizontal relationship rather than hierarchy, a world of expression rather than oppression, where «there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female,» where we are all «one in Christ Jesus.»

The father in the story may have really meant that it would be better if he himself was dead rather than to be subjected to daily reminders that his teen rejects his moral values and family rules — specifically the one pertaining to sex outside of marriage.

That kind of historical evidence has emerged often enough to suggest that rather than having enormous premature babies, ordinary people like Hannah and Elijah were having premarital sex (Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, by P. Laslett [Cambridge University Press, 1977]-RRB-.

It is wise to avoid affiliation with any religious community that emphasizes the Decalogue rather than the Beatitudes and if you are pressured for sex or money, run as if escaping hell, because you are!

I am not convinced that... surgical interventions are necessarily the right response for people... The reason I'm unsure is that if someone's gender identity does not match with their physical body, our culture treats our gender identity as what really defines us, rather than our physical sex.

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

If we are engaged in chastity education rather than giving information about sex, it is easy to show that such education, is part of the character building for children that finds its natural place in the home.

We should be looking for ways to make our economy more family - friendly rather than getting our knickers in a wad over same - sex spousal relationships if we are really concerned about strengthening the emotional bonds necessary to bind family members together so that the family may once again become the primary building block for a healthy society.

Those of us who believe, for instance, that surgical intervention might not be an appropriate remedy in the case of those experiencing confusion about their sex are ridiculed as intolerant or bigoted, rather than offered the opportunity to debate.

As we learn to relate to each other first as persons and then as sex objects, rather than vice versa, this becomes increasingly possible.

It also detaches sex from sexuality, making sex a performance motivated by the ego rather than by basic instinctual needs.

Romans is the only place that could be seen in such a fashion, and yet Paul separates the same - sex acts from his sin list and uses words of cultural adnormality and condemnation rather than words expressing ethics or morality as he does for the sin list.