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Home: Current Issues: Sexuality: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Sexuality: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Health Risks of Gay Sex - John R. Diggs, Jr., M.D.As a physician, it is my duty to assess behaviors for their impact on health and wellbeing. When something is beneficial, such as exercise, good nutrition, or adequate sleep, it is my duty to recommend it. Likewise, when something is harmful, such as smoking, overeating, alcohol or drug abuse, and homosexual sex, it is my duty to discourage it. Read more... The Hook-Up Culture: When Sex Becomes Sport - tothesourceHowever the Kobe Bryant case is resolved, there is one thing we do know: whether the sex was voluntary or coerced, Bryant surely intended it to be no more than a hook-up. Read more... The How and Why of Natural Family Planning - MARY SHIVANANDANIn the broadest sense, natural family planning refers to methods of avoiding (or achieving) pregnancy that cooperate with a couple's fertility rather than suppress it through the use of drugs or contraceptive devices. Read more... The Immorality of Nice Fornication - Anthony EsolenThe strongest case that Nice Fornicators make for themselves is that they are “committed” to one another in love, and that this commitment carries sufficient moral weight to justify their actions. Read more... The Immorality of Sterilization - Fr. William SaundersWhy does the Church teach that sterilization is wrong? Read more... The Joy of Sexual Values - JOHN LEOSupport for legal abortion is slipping in the U.S. It also appears that the high divorce rate and liberated lifestyles of the boomer generation may now be producing more cautious, conservative attitudes among the young. Read more... The Knot That Can’t Be Tied - Mark LoweryMan’s sexual energies are of extraordinary power and complexity. Is this energy something we can use however we wish, or is there some objective standard to which this energy should be conformed? The Western tradition, like many other traditions, has consistently held that there is such an objective standard, and it is the reality called “marriage.” Today, however, many think that marriage can be whatever they want it to be. Read more... The Latest Skirmish in the Condom Wars - Family ConcernsThe Physician’s Consortium, representing more than 25,000 doctors, has called for the resignation of Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). They charge that the CDC has known that a U. S. Health and Human Services (HHS) study found no convincing proof that condoms provide protection against many sexually transmitted diseases. Read more... The Liberal Arts and Sexual Morality - Peter KreeftAre the liberal arts and sexual morality connected? There is strong evidence that they are, for if we graph their development over the last half-century, we will see an almost identical curve of accelerating decline. Although this proves nothing, it certainly suggests something worth exploring more deeply. Read more... The Long Conversion of Oscar Wilde - Andrew McCrackenOscar Wilde is widely celebrated as an artist persecuted for his homosexuality, a sort of protomartyr for the cause of gay rights. The current celebration of Wilde as gay martyr is certainly one legitimate interpretation of his life, but it oversimplifies his complexity; indeed, it ignores the major movement of his life, a life that may also be seen as a long and difficult conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. Read more... The Marrying Kind - Elizabeth KristolWhen all is said and done, Andrew Sullivan's book Virtually Normal shows that gay activists are not just interested in admitting a new group of people to marriage (although that would be revolutionary enough). Read more... The meaning of sex - David QuinnWe like to think we live in an age of honest talk about sex, but it isn’t true. Read more... The Meaning of Sexual Differences - J. Budziszewski"I teach a course on 'Philosophy of Human Sexuality,' and I must have read fifty to a hundred books on the topic. On the Meaning of Sex is, quite simply, number one, especially for this generation. It is deep yet clear, reverent yet punchy, sound yet relevant, idealistic yet realistic, thoughtful yet exciting. It makes boredom impossible. The style is as beautiful as the content." - Peter Kreeft Read more... The Moral Birds and the Bees - Roger ScrutonIn the England of the Forties, when my parents were courting, terms like "moral," "decent," and "clean living" applied primarily to sexual behavior. Immorality meant sleeping around (and how innocent the word "sleeping" now sounds!); indecency meant unsolicited advances; dirtiness meant whatever put the sexual object before the loving subject. Read more... The Need to Read Carefully: A Response to Alice von Hildebrand’s Critique of Christopher West - Janet E. SmithOne of the benefits of being “on the circuit” is the opportunity to meet some fascinating and remarkable people, whether they are other speakers, organizers, or attendees. Read more... The Neglected Heart: The Emotional Dangers of Premature Sexual Involvement - Thomas LickonaIn discussions of teen sex, much is said about the dangers of pregnancy and disease — but far less about the emotional hazards. Read more... The Neglected Heart: The Emotional Dangers of Premature Sexual Involvement - Thomas LickonaIn discussions of teen sex, much is said about the dangers of pregnancy and disease—but far less about the emotional hazards. Read more... The Non-Factsheet - Dale O’Leary, Dean Byrd, Richard P. Fitzgibbons & James E. PhelanThe APA and the other 12 organizations that comprise the Just the Facts Coalition have just published a new edition of Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel. Read more... The Pill at 50 - Barbara KayWhen Mother’s Day was invented just over 100 years ago, early and multiple motherhood was the near-universal destiny of most women. That all changed 50 years ago with the invention of “the Pill,” as oral birth control soon became known. Read more... The Pitfalls of Sex Education - Toni CollinsWe faced a lot of unforeseen issues when we decided that the best choice for our third child was public high school. Read more... The Politics of Porn - ROBERT R. REILLYRobert Reilly explains how pornography, rather than being the sign of freedom some claim it is, threatens both our freedom and our civilization. Read more... The Pope's Theology of the Body - Christopher WestThe Holy Father presents a vision of marriage and sexuality never before articulated, but few people have been exposed in any depth to his revolutionary insights. Read more... The Premarital Sex 'Test Drive' - Father Tadeusz PacholczykDuring a 2011 roundtable discussion on Fox News, guest commentator Jay Thomas argued that young people should not be too concerned when it comes to pre-marital sex, because nobody would choose to "buy a car without driving it first." Read more... The Problem with the Pill - MARY BETH BONACCIMost of us assume that contraception works the way it says it works — by preventing conception. If a woman is on the Pill, she doesn’t ovulate and therefore there is no egg to be fertilized when she engages in sexual intercourse. Read more... The Roots of Law - J. BudziszewskiTalking with our nonbelieving neighbors is not as hard as we sometimes think. Not even the pagan has completely lost his common sense. By God's common grace, there are certain things we can't not know — things that every human being knows at some level, even if he pushes them down and hides them under a false bottom. How then, should Christians engage the culture in the Public Square? One thing they should not do is argue for biblical principles using the Bible. To do so would be, in fact, to act unbiblically. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [>>] Related Categories:
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