Tiggy — I would agree that much of conservative Christianity in America sees lust as
any sexual thoughts about anyone you are not married to.
My friend Julie Rogers says: «Over the course of the 10,080 minutes that go by in a given week, very few of those minutes (if any at all) are likely comprised of
sexual thoughts about other women.»
Not exact matches
During a talk at The Connecticut Forum earlier this month, former First Lady Michelle Obama shared her
thoughts about the recent wave of allegations of
sexual assault, harassment and misconduct against powerful men.
I
think [YouTube comedian] Ze Frank said it best: I
think about someone who has 2,000 friends on the Internet the same way I
think about people who have 2,000
sexual partners.»
The Liberals have also put this budget through a gender - based analysis, which involves
thinking about how a certain measure might affect men and women, or boys and girls, in a different ways, while accounting for other intersecting factors such as income, ethnicity, disability and
sexual orientation.
Here was someone I knew well and cared deeply
about who was a victim of
sexual assault by Dave, someone I
thought I knew well.
Certainly, in
thinking about sexual ethics and all that, we Tocquevillians can see that things are getting better and worse.
On the other hand, the younger set takes their
sexual cues from the resurrection (preferring not to
think about the so - called «order of creation») while using Genesis to highlight their culture - making activities and their environmental concerns.
«No one's beyond hope, we've seen redemption in the most unlikely people... when you're talking
about certain
sexual offences I
think you have to be very careful, and the support has to be lifelong, but I
think we believe in that Gospel don't we, everyone is not beyond the blood of Christ, everyone can be changed.»
, while Robert Benne
thinks about what defines Christian
sexual love.
With the help of a professor he persisted, and ultimately came to see the book as an incredibly rich source for
thinking about questions that had already occurred to him: Why not engage in a life of hedonistic
sexual pleasure, as Augustine did, and as everyone around him was currently doing?
Now if the Bible could be so wrong
about a clear ethical failure of slavery, what makes anyone
think it has anything to say
about sexual orientation or women's rights?
[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.]
Voskamp's use of imagery [in the last chapter of One Thousand Gifts] to show the intimacy of our relationship to God, has raised the question, «If we, as Christians, were supposed to
think about our relationship with God in
sexual terms, wouldn't God have made that clear in His word?»
If you
think about it today we use the work sodomite (I am not saying I do) in culture to indicate people who perform certain
sexual practices.
Among other controversial teachings of the Church, he developed a much needed line of
thought about the sacramentality of the sexes in the plan of God (more fully outlined in
Sexual Order and Holy Order, Faith Pamphlets).
I've heard
about loving people through beatings and muggings - but there is something so dignity shredding
about sexual violence, that the
thought of it makes me want to forget I ever read the sermon on the mount.
I'm not sure
about the»cause and effect» part of it though... I would
think that the authority feeds an lustful impulse, and that a
sexual craving / desire is not necessarily «part» of the need for authority.
Recently I had the reality hit me that most of the rest of the male population don't even want to understand rape and
sexual abuse issues, to the extent that they
think making jokes
about it is perfectly okay.
The notable change in behavior that has taken place over the past thirty years would not be of such great significance if it were not accompanied as well by a change in the way people
think about sexual relations.
One bishop, in his self - serving statement of resignation after an unsavory incident with a teenage boy was revealed, went so far as to suggest that his problem was that he was a particularly caring and intelligent person who was attuned to the latest
thinking about matters
sexual.
Before dismissing the above fantasy too quickly, let the reader
think about why it is that our society seems so little concerned over female homosexuality, has regarded it so lightly, and has no idea of the amount of female
sexual activity engaged in by women who are not admitted homosexuals.
You
think she is talking
about today and the consequences of the
sexual revolution — after all this is the book's topic — but she ends up talking
about communism and the cold war, current dietary restrictions and food obsessions, and the historically prior widespread popular acceptance of smoking tobacco (primarily cigarettes).
The «therapeutic», man - centred mentality which has infected much moral
thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that children willbe more healthy, the more «open» they are
about sex and
sexual activity.
1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are
about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's
think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters
sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.
I
think Hannon and I actually agree that the debate should be
about the procreative / non - procreative
sexual dichotomy and not the same - sex / opposite - sex dichotomy, and that we differ only in what the solution should be; this subject is the area in which I would have preferred a stronger and less assumptive argument.
Essentially, this is a set of
sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things
about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents
thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear
about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.
Raisman is right to highlight the necessity that, in this #MeToo moment, that people
think about structural and systemic factors that facilitate
sexual predation.
And, as I said, I don't
think there is anything abnormal or twisted
about sexual attraction to a women or to a man.
But if that's so, he notes, then it should govern the way Christians
think about same - sex
sexual activity as well, and thus he concludes: «When those with homosexual orientation act on their desires in a loving, committed relationship, [they] are not, as far as I can see, violating the love command.»
People are tired, and a bit lonely — and because the great reality of our
sexual differences is something they do know
about, and suspect may be of greater significance than the dear ladies of DARC and WATCH and NADAWM and so on can fathom — they
think that the truth of God is too remote and bleak and can never really be discovered.
Many
think that nature and nurture both play complex roles; most people experience little or no sense of choice
about their
sexual orientation.»
I can't help but
think how cool it would be if the first thing that came to people's mind when they hear
about us «religious» Christians is how loving we are to others, regardless of their race, gender, political preference or
sexual orientation.
But I also have learned that many young people are eager to
think about the question: How do we, as human beings, keep quality in our
sexual experience?
First, they spent an unusual amount of time
thinking and talking
about sex and their
sexual experiences; their
sexual hungers and adventures seemed to preoccupy them.
The publication of Human Sexuality: New Directions in American Catholic
Thought by the Catholic Theological Society (Paulist, 1977) is destined to generate a new round of discussion
about sexual ethics.
As a straight person, I've never felt inclined to make sweeping, general statements
about how individuals should deal with their
sexual orientation... and to be honest, I'm still trying to sort out my
thoughts on this issue.
The conception of God as primarily loving creative activity, so strongly emphasized in process -
thought, fits in admirably with the dominant motif of much that psychology tells us
about man's
sexual drive.
I
thought Grace wrote a brave and honest chapter
about sexual abuse.
You know... the whole every
sexual thought other than
about / with a wife is sinful lust kind of thing.
And the same should go for anyone who says they are saved if they are sinning and letting everyone know it, which includes all
sexual immorality, including having sex before a couple is married, drunkards, slanderers, gossips, thieves, swindlers, idolators, adulterers, and men who have sex with other men, etc... So ultimately, many Jesus followers accept certain sin of all types because they care more
about what the world
thinks, than what God
thinks.
Farley goes on to argue for the importance of
thinking and writing
about sex, since we «frequently harm or betray ourselves and one another precisely as
sexual beings.»
I encouraged the leadership of the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement to speak up
about this issue of
sexual abuse, which many
think is defining the movement to the outside world.
I'm still
thinking about why Genesis connects
sexual desire and procreation only after the first disobedience.
The puritanical approach usually does not keep people from
thinking about or from engaging in the proscribed
sexual behavior.
* Curiosities
about same sex stimulation, I
think many men have these curiosities and it messes with them mentally, either they act on it or divulge in gay porn I DO NT THINK THATS TRUE UNLESS THEY ARE IN PRISON * Addiction to porn and / or jacking off ONLY WHEN GETTING IT FROM THEIR WIFE IS SUCH A CHORE * Medical Conditions such as low sex drive, he is older and it has been going down over the years, he has high blood pressure and takes medication, he also has low Vitamin D and takes supplements, he may have some ED issues as well LACK OF SEX COULD CAUSE AS WELL AS BE CAUSED BY THOSE FACTORS * Sexual advances from other woman and him acting on those or seeking out other women for comfort when he is angry and / or depressed A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY * His ADHD doesn't allow him to process issues normally, he is quick to anger, depression, and feeling disrespected that causes his to retreat * He was self raised, came from drug infested household where neglect, torture, and narcissism ruled, and he lost his mother at the age of 7 from drugs, growing up in foster care * I make more money and I control all the money, he is not interested in paying bills at all, this immaculateness him * He is a control freak and sex is his way of controlling me, where he otherwise can't control me as I am more educated and he is more vocational SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU ARE A MATCHED PAIR IN THAT RES
think many men have these curiosities and it messes with them mentally, either they act on it or divulge in gay porn I DO NT
THINK THATS TRUE UNLESS THEY ARE IN PRISON * Addiction to porn and / or jacking off ONLY WHEN GETTING IT FROM THEIR WIFE IS SUCH A CHORE * Medical Conditions such as low sex drive, he is older and it has been going down over the years, he has high blood pressure and takes medication, he also has low Vitamin D and takes supplements, he may have some ED issues as well LACK OF SEX COULD CAUSE AS WELL AS BE CAUSED BY THOSE FACTORS * Sexual advances from other woman and him acting on those or seeking out other women for comfort when he is angry and / or depressed A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY * His ADHD doesn't allow him to process issues normally, he is quick to anger, depression, and feeling disrespected that causes his to retreat * He was self raised, came from drug infested household where neglect, torture, and narcissism ruled, and he lost his mother at the age of 7 from drugs, growing up in foster care * I make more money and I control all the money, he is not interested in paying bills at all, this immaculateness him * He is a control freak and sex is his way of controlling me, where he otherwise can't control me as I am more educated and he is more vocational SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU ARE A MATCHED PAIR IN THAT RES
THINK THATS TRUE UNLESS THEY ARE IN PRISON * Addiction to porn and / or jacking off ONLY WHEN GETTING IT FROM THEIR WIFE IS SUCH A CHORE * Medical Conditions such as low sex drive, he is older and it has been going down over the years, he has high blood pressure and takes medication, he also has low Vitamin D and takes supplements, he may have some ED issues as well LACK OF SEX COULD CAUSE AS WELL AS BE CAUSED BY THOSE FACTORS *
Sexual advances from other woman and him acting on those or seeking out other women for comfort when he is angry and / or depressed A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY * His ADHD doesn't allow him to process issues normally, he is quick to anger, depression, and feeling disrespected that causes his to retreat * He was self raised, came from drug infested household where neglect, torture, and narcissism ruled, and he lost his mother at the age of 7 from drugs, growing up in foster care * I make more money and I control all the money, he is not interested in paying bills at all, this immaculateness him * He is a control freak and sex is his way of controlling me, where he otherwise can't control me as I am more educated and he is more vocational SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU ARE A MATCHED PAIR IN THAT RESPECT.
I don't want a
sexual relationship with him anymore — I
think those feelings are long gone after him now caring
about my feelings for 13 years.
I know she wasn't
thinking about it, but in countries where girls are «circumcised», many of the same reasons are given as for why boys should be circumcised:
Sexual reasons (became popular during the Victorian era to curb masturbation.
If a woman had a deliciously exciting
sexual time in her 20s, or a few long - term committed relationships or perhaps a combo, and then had a dearth of partners in her mid - to late - 30s, when she may be
thinking about having a child, the definition of the «right man to marry» may change, clarity be damned.
* Curiosities
about same sex stimulation, I
think many men have these curiosities and it messes with them mentally, either they act on it or divulge in gay porn * Addiction to porn and / or jacking off * Medical Conditions such as low sex drive, he is older and it has been going down over the years, he has high blood pressure and takes medication, he also has low Vitamin D and takes supplements, he may have some ED issues as well *
Sexual advances from other woman and him acting on those or seeking out other women for comfort when he is angry and / or depressed * His ADHD doesn't allow him to process issues normally, he is quick to anger, depression, and feeling disrespected that causes his to retreat * He was self raised, came from drug infested household where neglect, torture, and narcissism ruled, and he lost his mother at the age of 7 from drugs, growing up in foster care * I make more money and I control all the money, he is not interested in paying bills at all, this immaculateness him * He is a control freak and sex is his way of controlling me, where he otherwise can't control me as I am more educated and he is more vocational