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SAFE SEX

According to Claude Allen, the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, “Condoms may prevent HIV and gonorrhea, but they do not protect adequately against other STDs.”

—Newsweek, December 9, 2002, p. 67 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Neither, might I add, do they protect a person from the damage to their emotional well-being or their soul.

Ephes. 5:3 NASB “But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints;”

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SAFE SEX

Focus on the Family compiled the following conclusions of the effectiveness of 25 years of addressing the search of intimacy with "safe sex" ideology. They found:

Ten percent of all 15 to 19 year-old females become pregnant each year.

More than 80 percent of pregnant girls under age 17 who give birth and keep their babies end up on welfare, costing society a staggering $21 billion a year.

Three million new cases of STD's among teens are reported each year.

—http://www.family.org/goodread/a0003220.html Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Unfortunately, safe sex isn't all that safe. Even if it could deliver the promised results to protect the sexually active from STD's and pregnancy, how can it protect from the emotional damage it inflicts on the unsuspecting? The only safe sex is a part of God's plan of a monogamous marriage.


SEX

In the column “Findings” Harper’s Magazine reports that “A study suggested that many American parents think of their teenage children as sexually uninterested and of all other teenagers as sexually hyperactive and predatory.”

--Harper’s Magazine/July 2010, p. 80 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Perhaps it would be healthier to understand that all teenagers have the potential to be chaste or promiscuous and for parents to have a healthy dialogue with them promoting the former, not the latter.

2 Timothy 2:22 (HCSB) “Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” 

 

 

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