OP: What the Bible Really Says About Sex

[nebula]

What the Bible Really Says About Sex

By Pastor Mark Driscoll

Published January 03, 2012

FoxNews.com

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For the most part, our society celebrates the process of hook up, shack up, and break up.

All you have to do is take a moment to observe the way sex is communicated in our culture.

Thousands of articles are churned out on how to cope with a past of multiple partners and how to find the next one.

Porn is a massive industry, generating $10 to $14 billion annually in revenues.

Nearly every sitcom on the air seems to make light of sleeping around, and films like "No Strings Attached" and "Friends with Benefits" lure young eyes to the theater, while a sex-crazed Tucker Max boasts about his conquests and skyrockets to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, becoming a cult hero for young slackers everywhere.

It also explains why sex trafficking is a $32 billion global industry, 45,000 to 50,000 young girls are trafficked in the United States every year, and why one in 12 youths experience sexual victimization, including sexual assault and attempted or completed rape.

The problem, however, is not sex.

It's us.

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...I ask you to consider your motivations for sex.

Have you ever truly given yourself to someone selflessly to love them, explore them, and cherish them until death do you part? Have you spent your life pursuing pleasure instead of seeking to give pleasure to a lifelong spouse? And, are you truly happy and fulfilled with your sex life?

The problem isn't our partners. It's us. We've perverted sex and misused it.

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[justjen33]

Thank You for posting this. I agree with his take on this subject. This world has certainly lost its way as to what sex is all about.

[winsomebulldog]

The perversion of sex is one more symptom of a much larger illness: the "It's all about ME!" complex. The world is drowning in an epidemic of selfishness.

[~candice~]

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

Titus 1:15

[joi]

Quoting justjen33

This world has certainly lost its way as to what sex is all about.

I do not know about the world, but people in the USA have gone to extremes.

Quoting winsomebulldog

The perversion of sex is one more symptom of a much larger illness: the "It's all about ME!" complex. The world is drowning in an epidemic of selfishness.

And if you don't believe it try driving on our roadways! Every one has the me first attitude.

[other one]

What the Bible Really Says About Sex

By Pastor Mark Driscoll

Published January 03, 2012

FoxNews.com

<snip>

For the most part, our society celebrates the process of hook up, shack up, and break up.

All you have to do is take a moment to observe the way sex is communicated in our culture.

Thousands of articles are churned out on how to cope with a past of multiple partners and how to find the next one.

Porn is a massive industry, generating $10 to $14 billion annually in revenues.

Nearly every sitcom on the air seems to make light of sleeping around, and films like "No Strings Attached" and "Friends with Benefits" lure young eyes to the theater, while a sex-crazed Tucker Max boasts about his conquests and skyrockets to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, becoming a cult hero for young slackers everywhere.

It also explains why sex trafficking is a $32 billion global industry, 45,000 to 50,000 young girls are trafficked in the United States every year, and why one in 12 youths experience sexual victimization, including sexual assault and attempted or completed rape.

The problem, however, is not sex.

It's us.

<snip>

...I ask you to consider your motivations for sex.

Have you ever truly given yourself to someone selflessly to love them, explore them, and cherish them until death do you part? Have you spent your life pursuing pleasure instead of seeking to give pleasure to a lifelong spouse? And, are you truly happy and fulfilled with your sex life?

The problem isn't our partners. It's us. We've perverted sex and misused it.

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Actually yes I have done those things Neb....... and we've been married for going on 42 years. While I'm not going to discuss our bedroom things, there are no complaints........ and the conversation would go quickly in a ditch to speak further...... and yes I've been faithful to her and will always, and I'm sure she has also.

[nebula]

Actually yes I have done those things Neb....... and we've been married for going on 42 years. While I'm not going to discuss our bedroom things, there are no complaints........ and the conversation would go quickly in a ditch to speak further...... and yes I've been faithful to her and will always, and I'm sure she has also.

Well then, Pastor Mark Driscoll wasn't writing to you.

[pecanpie]

Sex is part of God's creation, not part of the fall. However; sin corrupted God's intention for sex.

[Oh Hamburgers!]

I would argue that all the sex in society is the manifestation of our sexual desires. Sex sells as they say, and the fact it is such a huge market is because people are willing to buy and sell sex. If there weren't willing consumers there wouldn't be a market.

People like sex so naturally people want to have it. I think it's unfortunate that it is not always viewed with the respect that (I feel) it deserves.

I don't think that the "misuse" of sex is anything new though. With a global society that is used to instant access I think it has just become so much more accessible, between advertisements and pornography and what have you. So really I don't think sex (and our obsession with it) hasn't so much changed or increased all that much from the past.. it's just that it has become so much more visible.

[nebula]

Except, Hamburgers, we areoverly bombarded with it.

And we aren't being taught the true value of it, the emotional bonds it creates, the consequences of sex-without-commitment (aside from risk of disease), why it's better to wait, etc.