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Sex Outside of Marriage:
What's the Big Deal?
The sexual revolution of the '60s encouraged us to liberate ourselves
from old sexual taboos. Millions did. What have we learned?
by Noel Hornor
Of
all the gifts God has given mankind, one of the most beautiful and meaningful
is the gift of sexuality. Yet it's also one of the most abused.
Sex plays a vital part in God's plan for human beings. The first command recorded
in the Bible that God gave to Adam and Eve was to have sexual relations (Genesis 1:28). He essentially repeated the command in Genesis 2:24-25: "Therefore
a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they
shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed."
One aspect that should leap out at us from verse 24 is that God created sex for marriage. But the 20th century brought dramatic changes in attitudes toward what is considered to be proper sexual behavior.
The sexual revolution of the '60s resulted in a drastic relaxation of sexual mores and—aided by easy availability of birth-control pills—created the notion that freewheeling sex had practically no consequences. The idea of sex with no repercussions led to slogans such as "If it feels good, do it!"
Advocates of sexual freedom said that, since sex is enjoyable, we should shed our inhibitions and jump in. What they didn't say, however, is that sex is never consequence-free, and sex outside of marriage is heavily laden with negative repercussions, especially for girls and women.
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