Monday, October 30, 2006

Sex and the Church

I realised I hadn't actually posted about this because after about half a hour of typing it didn't let me post it!
Anway on Friday we talked about the church being scared of sex and this may have been other people's experience and I do agree that they are, but my experience has been when I was between the ages of 13 - 16 I had heard so many things about relationships (and sex) that I felt like I was a freak because I had never had a boyfriend or that I had never been in the situation of being pressured into having sex (which I guess is actually a good thing). I think you need a balance and also looking back on it all the time I heard stuff on sex there was never any mention on contraception all that was said was that the right context of sex is in marriage. I think the church are a bit niave thinking that because they have told their young people this that they aren't going to have sex! People are still going to have sex out of marriage, there is so much pressure around them, if you listen to just a few songs there is bond to be one that has a sexual refrence!
Society is so much more open about sex than it used to be, maybe it's time that the church was too!

1 Comments:

Blogger hayley said...

The youth groups I went to certainly weren't scared! The number of sessions dedicated to sex and relationships was almost ridiculous! Also a lot of the young poeple felt they were being patronised or stereotyped into a group where they only thought about sex/the oppostite sex and never thought about anything else!

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