For instance, adolescents and young adults who discuss
sexuality more normatively with their friends (i.e., in line with notions of healthy and pleasurable sexuality) may be more inclined to internalize these notions as their own norms, and may thus be more likely to engage in responsible and healthy sexual behaviors.
I think in most games it is just a gimmick but there is definitely a current trend towards trying to make
sexuality a more significant part of the gaming landscape.
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three collects six features by the enormously prolific director from that era (and two documentaries) on a four - disc set, and they are something else, films strewn with wild melodrama, romantic triangles, brawny action and some of the sexiest scenes of heavy petting and passionate smooching you've seen out of old Hollywood, with more frank
sexuality more suggested than shown but there is no mistaking the suggestions.
Somehow the fact that the movie is a reverie based on female romantic fantasies is supposed to make Isabella's paper - doll
sexuality more palatable.
Im a hot single blonde girl looking to explore
my sexuality more.
Marie Hilliard, 68, of southern Italy, said she was fine with gay organizations marching, unless they were promoting
their sexuality more than Irish heritage.
We will be moving away from our conversations on homosexuality for a while to discuss
sexuality more generally, but will perhaps revisit the topic again later in the year with some additional book discussions.
«24 Tellingly, Lovelace turns to texts teaching on human
sexuality more generally, only after he has considered the specific passages prohibiting homosexual practice.
Many will object, and to an extent rightly so, that even if these worries are well founded, nevertheless it is not up to us whether sexual orientation» and
sexuality more broadly» will put down roots in the mind of modern man.
My friend Laura, 27, who identifies as queer and has been out for about seven years, says that while these dating apps have allowed straight and questioning women to explore
their sexualities more, they're also a risky endeavor for queer women.
Not exact matches
Arguably no performer connects on a
more profound personal level with fans: Songs like «Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)» and «Run the World (Girls)» are anthems of female empowerment, and as her music has grown
more complex and daring, her lyrics have become increasingly intimate, exploring themes like motherhood, marriage and
sexuality with refreshing candor.
We are people with different bodies, gender expressions, faiths,
sexualities, class backgrounds, abilities and so much
more,» Gay says.
Lovato continued to speak out against the piece on her own Twitter account, saying that
more about her
sexuality would be revealed on her terms in her new documentary «Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated» which drops September 29.
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.
By commenting on
sexuality as an aspect of our lives in which we can live for God, this seems to imply
more than simply refraining from sexual sin.
With that, society seems to even
more detest female
sexuality.
I find it rather interesting that sometimes a person's
sexuality is
more important than whether or not they know Christ.
With the decrease in infant and childhood mortality and the extension of life expectancy by modern medical technology; perhaps the unitive function of genital
sexuality will begin to be valued as much as or
more than the procreative function.
Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with
more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their
sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»
More lies... Poor Bob is such an uneducated fool he doesn't know the difference between being gay and a pedophile and he hates the the truth that heterosexual behavior and homosexual behavior are normal aspects of human
sexuality.
But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their
sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are
more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.
The development of effective birth control methods has made it possible for the unitive function of human
sexuality to be expressed
more freely, which admittedly given predisposition to selfish predatory behavior is a mixed blessing.
Whereas conservatives tend to ignore stories that suggest sexual orientation is not usually a choice, progressives tend to dismiss stories that suggest
sexuality may be
more fluid in some cases.
The discomfort of conservative Christians whose views on gender and
sexuality are being challenged
more than they once were is nothing compared to the suffering faced by LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in this country.
And I know many of my fellow Christians who hold a
more conservative view of
sexuality share that conviction too.
Hence, while
sexuality points toward differences, it is toward differences that are correlative and can so serve to build a new and
more perfect wholeness.
We often fail to recognize that
sexuality is about
more than the physical act of sex.
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.
This too may lead to abuse, but as Pöhlmann comments «In contrast to the devaluation of the body in the history of Christianity, from the beginning Hinduism had a
more open relationship to the body, to
sexuality and beauty».
We were created human, not angels, and nothing highlights that
more insistently than
sexuality.
You say you always treat people like you like to be I guess you love being hated for your
sexuality You love when people put words in your mouth «Bout what you believe, make you sound like a freak «Cause if you really believe what you say you believe You wouldn't be so damn reckless with the words you speak Wouldn't silently conceal when the liars speak Denyin» all the dyin» of the remedy Tell me, brother, what matters
more to you?
Maybe a
more positive valuing of human
sexuality, which is evident in contemporary Christian thought, may help to combat the trivializing of it in Western society.
After articulating this vision of
sexuality and the human person, the catechesis treats the
more controversial topics, including contraception, divorce, and same - sex marriage.
I mean didn't Jesus talked way
more about our addiction to money then about
sexuality?
But Christianity contains
more positive attitudes as well, including biblical affirmations of the human body — evident in the creation story, the concept of the incarnation and the Roman Catholic notion of the unitive purposes of
sexuality.
The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human
sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or
more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»
But the
more frequently stated goal is as revolutionary as it claims to be — to displace the common wisdom regarding human
sexuality in both church and culture.
Parents who are comfortable with their own
sexuality — and with each other can
more casually discuss the expression of
sexuality and its pleasures and perils with their children.
Debra Hirsch, author of the Redeeming Sex, is on a mission to encourage Christians toward a
more integrated — and biblical — view of
sexuality.
But can she nurse the Church through conflicts on
sexuality...
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It also tends to promote a
more conservative position on moral issues such as
sexuality, abortion and euthanasia.
Greeley is appropriately critical of authoritarian patterns of leadership, casually dissenting on aspects of the Church's teaching (notably on
sexuality), delightfully acerbic on the terrorism perpetrated by liturgists, and pastorally wise about things that can be done to make parish life
more winsomely reflective of what he likes to call the Catholic imagination.
More often than not, when Christianity is discussed either in a fictional setting or in relation to real events, it is in the context of an issue related to human
sexuality.
As women open up with each other about issues like dual callings,
sexuality, gender, body image, and
more, they have
more freedom to make a statement and challenge assumptions than if they were tied to an organization.
All people are God's Beloved children If they are gay They may not to be straightened Any
more than my straight - ness Can by choice be «bent» What gives me the right To treat another's
sexuality As if it is contagious?
If today we are to illustrate how idolatry distorts the whole of society, this is a far
more illuminating illustration than one dealing with
sexuality.
It also, however, after the half - pause of a semi-colon, «encourages the use of peer educators in
sexuality education as a good way to lead to empowerment,» and suggests that governments — as really the much
more crucial «stakeholders» — consider using social marketing techniques to promote contraceptive use.
An Athanasius, inspired by a genuinely Christian monasticism, not only had a
more (comparative to his times) wholesome understanding of human
sexuality and marriage, as well as women s ministerial roles in the church, but also struggled (to the point of being expelled from his diocese five times by those supporting the imperium) for an orthodoxy which would confess the God revealed in Christ as a community of consubstantial Persons.
Given his views on
sexuality, and the apparent ease with which he has found a platform in the mainstream media,
more conservative Christians might be tempted to write him off as a wishy - washy liberal.
The Catholic who feels, with Pope Francis, that the Church should speak
more about poverty and less about
sexuality is different from the Catholic who no longer really believes in the Resurrection or the Virgin Birth.