LIZA AINGELICA B.

PILA March 5, 2020

II-B NURSING Ma’am Sy

Sex Outside of Marriage

What's the Big Deal?

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.

The audible furor that accompanied the sexual experimentation of the ’60s is no longer
as loud, but the revolution was successful in that to a considerable extent the extreme
behaviors of that time are now commonplace.

The results have been monumental—and devastating in many countries. As former

Harvard University professor Pitirim Sorokin observed about changes in sexual
standards: “Any considerable change in marriage behavior, any increase in sexual
promiscuity, and illicit relations, is pregnant with momentous consequences. A sex
revolution drastically affects the lives of millions, deeply disturbs the community, and
decisively influences the future of society” (The American Sex Revolution, 1956, p. 7).
The sexual revolution was not just an American phenomenon. Europe experienced its
own upheaval. In fact, much of the world joined in throwing off sexual restraint. Why are
millions of Africans infected with the AIDS virus? “The sexual revolution of the 1960s
and 1970s in the West spread globally and penetrated Africa … We know of many
cases where young people, children really, are already sexually active” (Christianity
Today, Feb. 7, 2000).

REFERENCE: https://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/sex-outside-of-marriage-whats-the-
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