Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

Friends or peers: Friends provide mainly hearsay. They are still trying to figure out what sex is all about themselves. Movies and television: Many people experience sexual frustration because they have developed wrong ideas and unrealistic expectations from watching movies and televi sion. The nature of the entertainment media is fantasy, and its depiction of sexuality is often false and destructive to real relationships. Books on biology: These books provide mainly the tech nical aspects of the experience. They don‘t describe the emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects. Pornographic magazines or videos: Pornography is de signed to promote sexual fantasy and deviation — to addict people to it, in order to perpetuate the porn industry. Its purpose is to make money rather than to instruct. As a mat ter of fact, if you were to follow its suggestions, you would subject yourself and whomever you‘re invol ved with to per version. Pornographic images are especially dangerous be cause they often become imprinted on people‘s minds and can be a spiritual stronghold. Experimentation during youth: Experimenting with sex with no understanding of its purpose and nature is no way for a young person to be introduced to something as pre cious and as dangerous as sex. Moreover, when you partic ipate in something, you are creating a capacity for it. When you create a capacity for it, you want to satisfy that desire. Yet once the desires have been created, your appetite for them grows. It increases by use. How a person has learned about sex determines, to a large extent, how he engages in it. Some of you are suffering right now from the consequences of uninformed or unwise sexual activity. When we receive our information about sex from one or more of the above sources, then pass along this information to others, we perpetrate cultural ignorance about sexuality. This is what has been happening in our societies. Much of Ignorance about Sexuality

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