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- Today.
- Sexuality is an important factor in public life in the United States and in most countries of the world.
- In some respects.
- This is not something new.
- After all.
- Is sexuality one of the main aspects of human existence?A complex.
- Inevitable and potentially dangerous dynamic in our lives.
- But is sexuality now a public matter?the priority and center of some of the most important and controversial debates of the time.
Sex and sexuality guide much of the publicity, entertainment and cultural issues that people use in their usual conversations. The sexual revolution of the 1960s was, in retrospect, just a sign of what was about to happen. In these early years of the 21st century, sexuality issues are seemingly inevitable. Elementary students are presented with “family diversity” programs and major newspapers report on the phenomenon of sexual promiscuity in nursing homes. Doesn’t there seem to be any part of our culture that does?they do not deal, in one way or another, with sexuality, which often involves great controversy.
Christians have a special role and duty in the midst of this confusion. First, they know that sex is more and less important than the culture of liberal sexuality can understand. Unlike evolutionary naturalists, Christians believe that the realities of gender and sexuality are intentional gifts from the Creator, who gave them to humans as a blessing and a responsibility. Unlike postmodern relativists, Christians cannot accept the claim that sexual norms are just social constructs. We believe that only the Creator has the right to reveal his intention and his orders regarding our administration of these gifts. Unlike the geniuses and gurus of marketing and advertising, we do not believe that sexuality should be used as a ruse to attract attention and create consumer demand. Unlike the complacent producers of sexualized entertainment, we don’t believe that sex is just fun and pleasure. Unlike the sexual revolutionaries of the past decades, we do not believe that sexuality is the means to free the ego from cultural oppression. In other words, we think that sex is less important than many people want us to believe. Human existence does not focus primarily on sexual pleasure and the demonstration of sexuality. There is so much more to human life, fulfillment and joy. Sex cannot keep the promises made by our hypersexualized society.
First chapter of the book – Desire and deception? From Albert Mohler Jr. , published by Editora Fiel.
This book is an attempt to consider, from the perspective of biblical Christianity, various controversial and problematic issues about sexuality.