It is no mistake that today's world has one majorly mixed up view of sex. Many people view sex as a way of expressing love towards someone, and this is absolutley....CORRECT. However, (and that is a big however) sex can be very painful and hurtful when not used in the proper time and place; it can be both an act of love but it can also be a very selfish act when not practiced within the boundary and context of marriage.
Believe it or not, God is the one who created sexual love and He designed it to be beautiful. I can't tell you the amount of times I have had people tell me amidst a curtain of tears, "If I could do it all over, I would NEVER have had sex with that guy. I wish I could say that I had saved my virginity for my husband."
This is especially a heartfelt topic for girls because sexual experiences for women often form emotional bonds that are not easily broken. Guys tend to be much more physically driven, but it doesn't make the consequences for sex outside of the context of marriage any easier.
Many people have said you should wait to have sex until you know for certain that you love that person. I say that if you truly love that person, you would be willing to wait and you would be willing to share a lifetime committment of marriage. How many times have people said, "That person really loves me, so I should have sex with them to show them that I love them as well." And how many times has that person been gone and onto the next person within a few weeks, a month, one night?!
In 1 Corinthians 13, the Bible talks about love. The very first thing that is mentioned is that "Love is patient". If this is true, then people should be willing to wait for one another in marriage. Sex, in and of itself, can be very lustful (as I am sure any prostitute would tell you; what with all those one night stands!) BUT if done in patience and in love, sex can be the most beautiful gift of love God has ever designed!
I don't know any prostitutes personally, but I am fairly certain that they would agree with the majority of what I said!
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I don't know...I know a prostitute (she's kneeling on the floor right now) and she seems to disagree...Oww!
Nicholas Aden
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That is so charming....ok, not really.
"If imperfections are what make us beautiful, then I must be a total babe!"
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"This is especially a heartfelt topic for girls because sexual experiences for women often form emotional bonds that are not easily broken."- Not really. Women can be as sexually active as men. I don't know if God really designed sex, but I'll be the one who decides what I want to do with my "virginity". What does it mean to be a virgin anyway? You'd be surprised to the different kinds of answers you'll get. For example, many girls do not consider having sex with another girl as losing their virginity. Oral or Anal sex sometimes are not even counted as losing one's virginity.
Sex is more for pleasure. Once again, it also depends who you ask. lol But for me, I think sex is more for pleasure than for anything else. Sure, if you have heterosexual sex then perhaps you'll end up with a baby. But what about infertility? What becomes of those people who cannot have children? They're just going to be having fun for...fun then.
I am not quite sure what being a prostitute have anything to do with the topic. Not every prostitute enjoys her job you know. Some of them have to do it for living. It's not the greatest job in the world and love does not equal to sex. You have to sacrifice a lot. I can't imagine letting strangers touch or feel me in a sexual way. That's like sexual harassment. I too believe prostitutes have been sexually assaulted before. People just don't care since...well...they're prostitutes.
That was exactly my point. Love does not equal sex, but if it did then prostitution would be the best job ever. But the fact is, love does NOT equal sex.
"If imperfections are what make us beautiful, then I must be a total babe!"
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Italo Calvino said (in his book Mr Palomar) that prostitutes are the only ones who can really understand love because they are able to separate it from sex.
--Mike
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An interesting suggestion...I never thought about it that way before.
"If imperfections are what make us beautiful, then I must be a total babe!"
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/missionsminded-maiden