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Prayers both before and after intercourse with good worship music in the background might cool the lust a tad.
I remember being about 15 when the church I attended handed out these little books to all the teenagers about what Christians should do about their sexuality.
Basically, it was advocating abstinence, but an odd sort of abstinence. The questions it kept trying to answer were all about "How far can we go?" The book didn't ever really define it all that well.
Kissing was OK, according to the book, as long as you really cared for the other person.
A little light petting wasn't so bad, really, as long as it didn't lead to arousal. I remember thinking at the time that if you weren't aroused why were you engaging in "light" petting. The book didn't bother to define what "light petting" might be, but we all figured it was stuff above the waist and with clothes on.
Heavy petting, on the other hand, wasn't OK, but apparently wasn't so bad if you were engaged to the other person. But, if it led to the desire to actually have intercourse, you were to stop at once. Right. We took "heavy petting" to mean anything with clothes on.
Masturbation got a full chapter, but the book wasn't sure about what to say about it. It hemmed and hawed, but the message was unclear. Basically it said that almost all boys did it but few girls, and that it wasn't necessarily a sin, unless it led to excessive thinking about sex. Duh.
Oral sex was simply not mentioned at all. We weren't supposed to know that it existed, I guess.
As today, apparently, the message was unclear for the teenagers who read this little book and, apparently to the adults who wrote and distributed it.
Us kids? Well, we did whatever we did.
"Nice try, buster. Winner, the author of Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, says that in our sex-saturated culture, young, single Christians find chastity much more difficult than many older Christians can imagine. A college minister told Winner that “every college pastor I’ve talked to about this says the same thing: Their students, even those in their leadership groups, people leading Bible studies and so forth, are sexually out of control.”
A real challenge and at the root of modern problems.This is the true battlefield for American culture, because it is the one battlefield where each individual is in total control of their own choice. This is a problem that is largely decided by the female, I think when male birth control becomes practical it will lead to women fighting to take back control over their sexuality, already many young women seem to sense their sex has given up too much in the "sexual revolution".
To me sex is like food. It is wonderfull, necessary and should be respected. We have to be carefull, I know of far too many people who are enslaved to sexual adictions and starting early was probably part of the cause. I´d guess that for every extremely overweight person there is a sexual addict. Believe it or not, it is as bad, if not worse than a drug addiction. Hard to control, dangerous, and hurts a lot of people.