Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
Well, I’m glad science cleared that up for us. According to a recent TED talk by psychologist Christopher Ryan (and as reported by the Mail Online), monogamy is not biologically natural for human beings, male or female—it’s not genetically hardwired! All this time I thought I got married because I was biologically predisposed to reduce my [...] Read more »
I figured it would only be appropriate for my first post since getting back from my honeymoon would be on sex. CNN’s religion blog has a short article (mainly borrowing from John Acuff’s recent post on “Stuff Christians Like”) talking about how Christians “spoil” sex by focusing too much on guilt, abstinence, etc. and less [...] Read more »
The BBC News has published an article on what they are calling “the virginity industry“—(mainly Arab and some Asian) women choosing to get hymen restoration surgery in order to hide their past sexual activity prior to getting married, avoiding the social consequences of not being a virgin on their wedding night. It is indeed a [...] Read more »
If one is to be abstinent until marriage, why push marriage into the late twenties? Sociologist Mark Regnerus advocates and defends earlier marriage in the light of abstinence teaching, suggesting that the cultural shift towards later marriage is unreasonable and unwise. Read more »
Evangelicals must choose between two opposing worldviews pertaining to sex and marriage. No longer can they push abstinence until marriage on the one hand while on the other hand embracing the cultural shift towards later marriage. This combination puts many Evangelical young people in the unreasonable and high-pressure situation of abstaining from sex throughout their most sexually-charged years. This article proposes several needed changes if Evangelicals are to continue to embrace abstinence. Read more »