We do find, however, that families that invite conversations around
sexuality into the therapy room often experience a decrease of familial anxiety, a closer connection between parent (specifically father) and teenager, and an increase in relational self - confidence.
In 2007, Dan Fox wrote for frieze magazine, «for Moffett, painting is used as a kind of aesthetic compressor concentrating the very real concerns and complexities of identity politics and human
sexuality into a hard - hitting, high - tension visual experience.»
But while Rose infuses her body and open
sexuality into her struggle, Nauman just left the studio.
A voyeur, said to be celibate, he sublimated
his sexuality into portraying the human body.
The two 1960s artists whose careers and products may be considered to have formed a bridge between the visual past (the omnipresent black figure, overtures to visual modernism, and the need to acknowledge the politics of race) and a visual future for African American art (artistic singularity over racial unity, narrational / perceptual simultaneity, and the interjecting of class, gender, and
sexuality into art) are Bob Thompson and ROMARE BEARDEN.
He toys with the idea of the physical self being one with architecture and the surrounding space and brings
sexuality into his artwork through the blurring of these lines.
Often challenging the associations and roles of Muslim women in both Western and Muslim culture, Sikander incorporates many such elements of female
sexuality into her work.
This episode, Sexuality in Lit, features three writers - Mark Doty, Fenton Johnson, and Amber Keyser - who have incorporated sex and
sexuality into their work in very different ways.
Now more than ever, women are taking
their sexuality into their own hands and demanding satisfaction.
Science doesn't have a great track record when it comes to incorporating human
sexuality into research and practice.
Illinois GOP Senate candidate Andy Martin «says he is blanketing the state of Illinois with radio advertisements that call a rival's
sexuality into question,» WBBM reports.
The earliest stage closely identified the two forces, incorporating
sexuality into religious myth and ritual.
Only as the Church recovers the reality of faith can it return to the debate and put
sexuality into context as one part — and not the whole — of the Christian life.»
One man, now living in a permanent committed relationship, told of his struggles with guilt and self - acceptance and said: «Accepting Christ and becoming openly gay have changed my just plain
sexuality into love - expressive sexuality.»
Had he not turned
his sexuality into a political campaign, no doubt Pat Buchanan and almost everyone else would regard Sullivan's unhappiness as «a sadness they should privately sympathize with and publicly say nothing about.»
Not exact matches
Many people already know about the Kinsey scale, the near - ubiquitous system that allows people to gauge their
sexuality on a sliding scale, which revealed that people do not always fit exclusively
into heterosexual or homosexual categories.
She said the decision to stay mum was a personal one and that she didn't want her
sexuality being made
into a headline.
Jesus Himself had some pretty radical things to say about lust and
sexuality, and never once did He invite women
into the blame game, something we are told our first fallen father, Adam, did from the very beginning.
I think that our children's children will look back at history and see the cause of the AIDS epidemic in America for what it was... not just the result of unprotected sex between promiscuous gay men... but the result of religious and social persecution of gay people that pushed them
into unhealthy lifestyles and expression of their
sexuality.
The damage is done when we try to apply a «thou shalt not» blanket condemnation to the situation and pigeonhole people
into a single acceptable expression of
sexuality.
This a staggeringly unhealthy narrative to promote to our children about the way
sexuality works, and plays directly
into the hands of a rape culture such as the one in which we live: If you are a woman and ever get catcalled, abused, molested, raped or any number of other sexual advances, you are probably at least partially to blame.
In this sense marriage, family,
sexuality is something inscribed
into our identity as human beings and not just a set of social conventions.
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.
Commandment number seven, «You shall not commit adultery,» plunges us inevitably
into a consideration of
sexuality, sexual ethics, and sexual practices.
Sexuality turned
into cruelty, cynical exploitation, and destruction of others is certainly evil, and sexual behaviour which leads to mutual regard and loving growth can so far be called good.
To take cognizance of new insights
into human
sexuality from the life sciences is not, as some critics suggest, to contribute to the breakdown of morality.
is there Christian insight
into sexuality through a reflection on the work of agape in the sexual life with its frustrations, idolatries, and creative powers?
First,
sexuality enters
into the whole of man's life and qualifies all human reactions.
Second, there was a conspiracy of silence as to how
sexuality enters
into human growth.
The experience of God is more than the sublimation of
sexuality, but the power and tonality of sexual emotion certainly enters
into the celebration of life and the enjoyment of God.
Sexuality is both personal and communal, a stepping
into community to enact God's love in an embodied way.
As far as it being a component of healthy
sexuality, it can be a helpful tool for understanding yourself and what feels right and what doesn't before you ever enter
into a sexual relationship.
When
sexuality gets framed as something to repress or feed, something that needs to be reigned in or fanned
into flame, we're seeing it as merely an appetite, a set of biological compulsions, and we've lost something fundamentally human about ourselves.
Long before there was a debate about same - sex anything, far too many people bought
into a liberal ideology about
sexuality that makes a mess of marriage: Cohabitation, no - fault divorce, extra-marital sex, non-marital childbearing, massive consumption of pornography and the hook - up culture all contributed to the breakdown of our marriage culture.
Recent expansions of curricular materials, in addition to the
sexuality unit, have moved
into situational ethics, cultural anthropology, and a very open exploration of biblical materials and works of religious experiences.
Taken in this context, masturbation and whether or not it is a healthy expression of
sexuality for a particular individual become questions of whether or not the acts of masturbation at a particular season of life are drawing you deeper
into isolation from others and from God, or
into deeper connection and intimacy.
We need to recognise our alienation from our
sexuality and to lay bold claim to the gospel's promise of reconciliation to our embodiment, and then to explore some of the ways in which
sexuality enters
into our experience of Christian faith.
The church's endorsement of virginity extended beyond such formal appeals and
into policy decisions pertaining to female
sexuality.
Although their particular tactics are enormously diverse, many fundamentalist groups impose creedal tests on their followers, many have rites of passage such as conversion experiences that demarcate entry
into the community, and many enforce conformity in such matters as dress,
sexuality and the use of alcohol.
Shots were returned and, as is so often the case in our time, an otherwise stimulating conversation devolved
into splashy mudslinging over
sexuality.
«All discussions about human
sexuality need to be handled with care, as they speak
into deep areas of our humanity and identity,» says Steve Clifford, general director of the Evangelical Alliance.
With regard to
sexuality, what must be realized is that historically the predominant effect of cultural conditioning has been to squeeze all humanity
into a single large box labeled «heterosexual.»
The family, along with the state today, has sought to control women through rigid definitions of
sexuality and appropriate for itself reproductive rights and control over her body; violence and subjugation have been woven
into institutionalized forms of religion whose patriarchal tenets have marginalized and domesticated the female and the feminine, shackling her and legitimizing violence against her.
Sexuality is not principally about genital sex but, rather, about the differentiation of human beings
into male and female.
The programme would also be greatly strengthened if the compilers would put
into simpler and age appropriate form the admittedly very technical language employed by Pope John Paul II in his explication of
sexuality and marriage in what the Pope himself described as «theology of the body».
However, as the humane ends sought by Protestants moved
into areas of gender and
sexuality and abortion, this alliance was split.
Some people, reacting against the prudery of the Victorian era and the moralistic legalism
into which some churches had devolved, blamed the Puritans, and tried to liberate
sexuality from all religious constraint.
Moving forward with the series, I'd like to spend just a few more weeks focusing on the specific topic of homosexuality, before we move
into other aspects of human
sexuality, like singleness, «purity,» sexual ethics, marriage, and so on.
Part of the distinctively human expression of pervasive
sexuality is the bringing of children
into the world, at least for those who are not celibate (where such contact does not occur) or homosexual (where procreation is not possible).
For me, I am absolutely utterly thankful that there was someone willing to walk with me through the process of unraveling this mysterious thing called
sexuality — and allowing me to bloom
into the woman I am now.