How should the Church respond the sexuality in our culture today? The Christian message contains the truest guide to sexuality in existance, but too many people refuse to listen b/c all they here the church saying in regards to sex is NO!
Perhaps we should change our approach, much like this recent article in Wired Magazine:
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I stayed up all night Monday reading Smut: A Sex Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough Is Enough by Gil Reavill.
He's no prude, and he's no extremist. But he is tired of the porn creep
that has turned mainstream entertainment into a sex-saturated parody of
itself. And as I finished each chapter, I found myself thinking "yeah!"
and "what he said!" instead of what I'd expected to think (which was
something along the lines of "whatever, get over it").
"(The) internet ... represents a shared commons or public square,"
he writes. "It presents an engrossing portrait of who we are as a
society, as a culture and as human beings." And it also houses "the
nastiest neighborhoods of any town on Earth."
C.S. Lewis said in Mere Chrisitanity that "You can get a large audience together for a striptease act--that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a piece of meat or food, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was something equally queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?"
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