Sentences with phrase «with human sexuality»

Certainly I will share the findings with my human sexuality students.

I taught the Interpersonal Attraction / Romantic Love course at Chapman University, along with Human Sexuality & Sexual Disorders & Treatment.

In the American context, most of these issues have to do with human sexuality.

The answer is pretty specific and pretty basic and it has to do with human sexuality, as that is how LGTQ, or current label differ from long - held teaching and tradition, and also what nature would seem to indicate.

Not exact matches

You might agree with the Times about how a wizard of Dumbledore's moral superiority should be immune to the weaknesses of human sexuality or you may side with some of Rowling's fans who think a strong gay character is leap for gay rights.

Mal Harrison, founder of the Center for Erotic Intelligence and former advice columnist and resident sexologist for the Museum of Sex, studies human sexuality as a science and shares her findings with the world.

It's a very broad and interesting question, as it deals with all aspects of human sexuality.

When combined with his «theology of the body» — a celebratory presentation of human embodiment and sexuality — John Paul's promotion of Vatican II's reforms provides crucial resources for responding to the American sexual - abuse crisis — a crisis, Wills argues, rooted in defective conceptions of the Catholic Church and its sexual teaching.

A lot of us are associated with groups like this, groups that, at least in our lifetime, aren't going to move away from traditional Christian teaching regarding human sexuality and marriage.

However, it should be no surprise that traditional customs regarding human sexuality are being challenged now that the greatest long term risk — an «inconvenient pregnancy» can be avoided with a high degree of success.

In chapters like «The Meaning of Sex,» «Becoming a Singular Sensation,» «The Gift of the Present Moment,» «Winning the Spiritual Battle,» and «Craving Heaven,» Eden describes God's design for human sexuality, why sex is reserved for marriage, the importance of modesty, how singles struggling with loneliness and unrequited love can empower themselves through prayer and the sacraments, and why shared values with one's spouse are so vital for a successful marriage.

Such a view of sexuality accords fully with the doctrine that the love of God incorporates and does not destroy the human loves.

The loves which are linked with sexuality seem to be the extreme case of the ambiguity in human loves when they are judged in the light of agape.

The erosion by stealth of a common language defining the innate dignity of human sexuality has been clear for those with eyes to see.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

Sexuality in our age is almost completely dominated by the stimulus of bodily attraction, that is, the male - female mode of sexual power or that power of attraction which humans have in common with the animals.

The reality of human sexuality is a patent fact; and it would seem to be intimately tied in with man's total organic movement, which as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology, as well as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling qualities.

This is why Satan attacks our sexuality so much because in attacking human sexuality, it actually interferes with human bonding.

Western societies have only recently woken up to the complexities of human sexuality, and the Bible is usually blamed for this late willingness to engage with the issue.

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.»

The Church's reluctance to deal with the issue of human sexuality is at the heart of the problem.

«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.

The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross as a symbol of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.

Finally, and with its physiological grounding in that sexuality which is integral to human existence, there is the drive towards, and the capacity for, loving.

While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.

«69 There is in human sexuality a sense of awe, intuition, and ecstasy that brings with it a «suspicion of holiness.»

They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

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.

It will be useful to begin this chapter by giving due consideration to this broad fact about us and to see our human sexuality, in its deepest sense, as having much to do with how we respond.

We need a new and authentic development of doctrine that will allow us to see the mysteries of human sexuality and its sacred meanings more clearly so we can proclaim it to the world with greater clarity.

Spirituality is intimately related to sexuality because of the natural human desire to seek union with the object of love.

Used in conjunction with each other, both documents will enable educators and others to move fearlessly and creatively into the whole area of human sexuality in a Christian context.

At times the church, with an emphasis on the virtues of celibacy, has seemed to have a negative view of human sexuality.

If love is sincere, there is little difficulty in noting the issues or differences that may arise; on the one hand the indiscriminate instinct of lust with its promptings to seek satisfaction with the first appealing person available; on the other, the particularised human instinct (the conjugal instinct already present) urging a young person to keep the gift of sexuality for one; and to respect that «one» when found but withoutthere yet being a mutual conjugal commitment.

All in all the book provides an excellent read with some unique testimonies, anecdotes and insights into a wise and mature approach to human sexuality.

In doing so, they were forced also to trade the robust natural law tradition for the recently constructed standard of «psychiatric normality,» with «heterosexuality» serving as the new normal for human sexuality.

And since then, following studies and individual case work, the institution of psychiatry has in fact aligned itself with the understanding that homosexuality is normal, is a part of the human understanding of sexuality.

I agree with Jermann's statement that the transgender movement is one of many manifestations of our society's deeply flawed understanding of human sexuality.

To grasp how these forces worked, one must understand that Greenberg accepts the anthropological insight, shared by Freudians and most sexologists, that human sexuality is extremely plastic and innately nonspecific with regard to sexual objects.

Instead they impose punishment by withdrawing human services that could help people to cope more effectively with problems arising from their sexuality.

«Is the Minister aware that the recent guidelines of the House of Bishops state clearly that those who enter a same - sex marriage, together with children in their care, should be welcomed into the life of worshiping communities, and also that the Church of England is about to begin a two - year process of structured conversations to explore the changing attitudes to human sexuality and their implications for the life of the church and its disciplines?»

The reason we should not take up the argument of Human Sexuality is not because of the obvious problems with the report's vague criterion of «creative and integrative growth» as the necessary condition for the legitimacy of sexual expression.

I must make one final comment, which has to do with the religious dimension of human sexuality in all its aspects.

As we have said, it is very likely that the area of sexual morality is central here, not only because it has to do with a problem of such striking contemporary relevance but because it follows from the significant role which sexuality plays in the total pattern of human life.

On the other hand, the total pessimism of much traditional Reformed theology, whether Calvinist or Lutheran, and its more recent revival, as well as the perverse denigration of humanity not stated but implied in Catholic penitential theology with its fear of human impulses and its dread of sexuality, is not Christian either.

Decoupled from the state, the Church can preach the Gospel with regard to marriage and human sexuality generally, backed up by enforcement of its canonical and ascetic disciplines, without fear of state sanction» assuming the Church is willing to accept the burden of proclaiming a truth so contrary to the prevailing zeitgeist.

One letter - writer responded to several of the series features with these words: «Taken all together, these articles demonstrate the tremendously complex nature of human sexuality.

As with any distortion of the truth and meaning of human sexuality, the theory and ideology of «gender» bears bitter fruits — confusion, suffering, damaged lives and personal tragedies, even suicide.

SOGI policies attempt to impose, by force of law, a system of orthodoxy with respect to human sexuality: the belief that marriage is merely a union of consenting adults, regardless of biology, and that one can be male, female, none, or both, again, regardless of biology.

Rather than lapsing into shamed silence the Church should redouble her efforts: she should direct her attention to this area and should allocate substantial resources to sex and relationships education, to dynamic programmes that meet the complicated pastoral challenges in the field of sexual education in order to provide young people with a healthy vision of human sexuality.