Sentences with phrase «than no sex at»

Sex without companionship in marriage is better than no sex at all; but its pleasure falls far short of sex within a relationship of loving and trusting.

«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.»

Not exact matches

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

As for the significance of handholding, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, told The New York Times in 2006: «It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.»

He goes on to say that they meddle in the marketing of their portfolio companies because «we can fake it far more convincingly than in other areas...» As I always say, marketing is like sex; everyone thinks they're good at it.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

And he offers anecdotes aplenty about booze, drugs and sex — the latter of which he encouraged at his own agency, because «nothing got creative people to come in early and leave late better than the prospect of sexual adventure.»

No employer shall «discriminate between the sexes in the payment of wages for work of comparable character, the performance of which requires comparable skills» or «pay wages or other compensation to any employee at a rate greater than that at which the employer pays wages to employees of a protected class for work of comparable character»

Their report says more than one in 10 British men aged 16 to 74 have paid for sex on at least one occasion and estimated there are around 72,800 sex workers in the UK.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

No book better dissects the issues - beneath - the - issues at these Synods than this brilliant analysis of the sexual revolution, i.e., «the destigmatization and demystification of nonmarital sex and the reduction of sexual relations in general to a kind of hygienic recreation in which anything goes so long as those involved are consenting adults.»

Homosexuality is not a focus at Wheaton more than any other college, said Ryken, but culture places a priority on sex.

Although contraceptives have a very high failure rate amongst teenagers, on average, contraceptive sex is less likely to result in pregnancy than sex with no contraception at all.

We need to affirm that women are sexual beings with drives that match or are sometimes higher than men (and that these sex drives vary from person to person and some people may have no sex drive at all).

In a Western society that idolizes sex and romance, a Christian who chooses singleness — not because they fail at dating, but because they desire their personal calling more than sex, romance or companionship — has done something entirely foreign.

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.

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.»

And some gay people feel that gay sex is wrong (and many have at some point in their lives), so they are clearly capable of taking a moral stand on the issue (without the physical components of their brains being any different than someone who makes a different choice).

At the recent Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission's national conference on «The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage,» Albert Mohler correctly asserted that the divorce revolution has done more harm to marriage than same - sex marriage will ever do.

«We found actually that among the Tea Party, rather than being libertarians, at least on the issues of abortion and same - sex marriage, they're actually social conservatives,» the survey's lead author, Robert Jones, said Tuesday.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Edward Anhalt, the distinguished screen, writer, who accepted: the award for Becket at that luncheon, commented that he was then working on the script for BoeingBoeing, a sex farce considerably less «religious» than Becket, a fact that created minor uneasiness among the pious present.

... Now will you take sixty seconds to bring yourself to your present age, still a member of the other sex... notice what you do differently than you did in real life... notice how you feel about it all... (The leader waits at this point for about sixty seconds.)

As I looked at the issue myself, I recognised that the traditional biblical view pointed to same - sex practice as wrong, and less than God's best for my life.

Sex aimed at something greater than consent — aimed, as Elizabeth Bruenig puts it, at the «good [of] the person who has rendered consent» — is a more powerful drive, aiming at a better goal, than simple pleasure.

Bisexual activist Robyn Ochs has a commonly used definition saying, «I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted — romantically and / or sexually — to people of more than one sex and / or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.»

Just because Christians don't try to have hot sex before marriage or with other people other than their spouse doesn't mean they don't have hot sex at all.

A key strand in neoconservatism, at least in America, is made up of Catholics who agree with the Pope and his predecessor about sex but not about economics, seem immune to the enormous amount of work that they have done and still do in explaining how these things are connected, and manage to present themselves, quite falsely, as somehow more orthodox than those who, with similar disregard, agree with the Popes about economics but not about sex.

I have to say I'd call these better than sex after drooling all over Kindle while looking at the pic and reading the ingredients!!

Forget the millions of viewers at home — is there anything more mortifying for a grown man than having to talk about your sex life in front of your mom?

Before that, we would have sex 2 - 3x per year at most, and only slightly more than that before our daughter was born.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

At my age I love sex more than I did when I was younger, I take care of myself better now than when I was younger.

The women I know who look great and love sex and own their sexuality at middle age are doing quite well, often with men younger than they are.

You have lost your sex kitten, and your lack of interest may leave your partner feeling rejected, unattractive, unfulfilled and unloved at a time she needs you more than ever.

• Parental Responsibility can be held by more than one parent - figure of either sex at the same time.

I am enjoying my life and doing things that I haven't done in years and even though my husband is suffering from illness and that our sex life is zero I am discovering sex toys which I must admit are at times better than the real thing!

Nothing speaks more to that than when Margot briefly imagines sharing her bad - sex fling with Robert with a sympathetic boyfriend at some point in life — only to realize that she'll probably never find a man she'll feel comfortable being herself around and sharing her past with without facing his judgment: «but of course there was no such future, because no such boy existed, and never would.»

We all «know» that women aren't good at casual sex, «only» have affairs for love, are biologically disinterested in sex, and that, more so than men, «need» and thrive in a monogamous relationship.

And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage than white women and even black men do.

But, beyond feeling appreciated, at least he was getting sex (albeit outside the marriage), and the NMP study indicates that sexual satisfaction is even more important than kind words and acts in a marriage.

But now I daught he loves me Cs he doesn't listen or take take what I advise him with in practice he sleeps the whole day he just eat and sleep I just want the advise to knw if is he commited to dis relationship or not cs he does nt help me with household either i have to come back to wrk at 8 pm and cook he eats after want sex and sleep a hardly gets rest if i try to tell him he just laugh and tell me he will look for thr job next month even if i give him firections he says i do nt knw the place it seems like he wants me to bby seat him.if i tell him how i feel he gets angry a do nt knw if its a sign of hm nnot wanting a future bright with me or what pls help me or maybe he things bcs he is youger than me him job is to sleeps with me if i denies him sex he gets angry pls help i want to knw if maybe im being too hard to him or what

Basically, at this point, other than for sex, I ignore women, because I know any early steps in a relationship ends with a grimace on her part when she finds out I live in a basement.

At the same time, having children, as All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood author Jennifer Senior notes, causes more conflict between couples than anything else — money, work, in - laws, chores, annoying habits, communication styles, and sex.

Compounding this problem, a fair number of the controls still had sex, albeit at a lower rate than cases, watering down the comparison between the two groups.

If you're only nursing occasionally and supplementing with formula, you'll need contraception sooner than six weeks postpartum if you plan to have sex during that time, so you may want to start the minipill at three weeks after delivery.

And here's what might account for at least part of the reason younger couples are having slightly more sex after baby than older pairs: Moms aged 18 to 24 much more likely to get it on with baby in the room than moms aged 30 to 34.

Some people don't need to have sex every day and / or maybe they choose to do it other places than at night in their bed (good for them if they do!).

At 2:45 p.m., Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, state Sens. Brad Hoylman and Tim Kennedy, and child sex abuse survivors and advocates will deliver more than 100,000 petition signatures to the Senate Republicans, calling for inclusion of the Child Victims Act in the budget, Senate Republican conference room, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The Legislature approved last year a plan to create a «mini shelter» in each town that would provide 24 hour housing to no more than six sex offenders at a time.