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 »
If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know about Mark Regnerus, sociologist from the University of Texas at Austin and Ph.D. graduate of the fine UNC-Chapel Hill sociology program, author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenager and a few excellent articles on early marriage (which I blogged [...] 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 »
James McGrath has posted a collection of helpful links on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality, including articles from both sides. It’s worth bookmarking for future discussions. I would add the following to the list: Gary R. Jepsen, “Arsenokoites and Malakos: Meanings and Consequences,” Currents in Theology and Mission (2006) Unfortunately, the Dale [...] 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 »