Prudence is defined as the practical common sense.
Temperance is having self-control. Knowing when to stop your self from having a limit.
Teetotalism is also temperance (?) Restraining from drinking alcohol.
Chastity would be the innocence or purity of moral sexuality. Still being a ‘virgin’. Analytically defined as a practice of restraining from sexual intercourse. Modesty would mean being true to oneself with self-conscience or simply defined as being relatively moderate or intends to avoid impropriety. The rules of modesty matters depending on different situations while Chastity would be always the same for the Christians. In the definition of chastity for the Christians is, “Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.” Chastity and the social rule of modesty are not to be confused.
The Christians rule of chastity must not be confused with the social rule of modesty. It is either marrying someone, being faithful and loyal to your partner or else total abstinence. The purpose of sex is to reproduce God’s children.
The purpose of sex is to make children as the purpose of eating is to repair the body. The analogy of the strip-tease act on women or girls undressing on stage is compared to a plate with a bit of bacon. If this display were found popular in a certain country it would probably mean the people in that country is starving, The result to this act is not sexual corruption but sexual starvation.
The human race, modern people have two thoughts about “Sex is nothing to be ashamed of”. One though is that it is the natural way to reproduce and create a living baby. The other is the fact that it gives pleasure. According CSL, Christians also think the same. It is one of the religions that takes in and accepts the beauty of our body. Not being ashamed of sex would actually mean the “state into which the sexual instinct has now got nothing to be ashamed of”. It’s like enjoying sex and not being ashamed of it like enjoying eating and not being ashamed of it. Although saying that ‘sex is nothing to be ashamed of; the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of.’ This statement makes everything wrong. CSL thought it to be ashamed of in every way. With the analogy of food, it would be wrong and is to be ashamed of IF the world made food their main interest in life and spent their lives looking at photos of food and smacking their lips.
The film looks at both the understanding of the church, that is portrayed within the film, and the suggestion that there can only be one sexuality, heterosexuality, and that all others are sins in the eye of God. Christians understood sex and sexuality to be between a man and a woman and for the purpose of procreation. The film challenges this by giving other examples of things the Bible sees as sins because of the prevention of procreation, such as ejaculating outside of the body and contraceptives. Both of these are also strongly condoned by today’s society to prevent unplanned pregnancy and STI’s. This is directly related to Irvine’s article “Victims, Villains.. And Neighbours” about Comprehensive sex Ed. vs. abstinence sex Ed, and the debate between teaching kids about safe sex and how to use things such as condoms or birth control, or not teaching theme these things at all because this would be telling them that sex is okay as long as it’s safe, when abstinence sex Ed’s goal is to avoid sex all together until marriage because the reason we were created to have sex is to procreate and having sex outside of marriage is wrong and using any kind of contraception that could prevent procreation is...
One other concept that goes against this authentic religion notion is modern day sex-ed. I can’t even begin to count the number of times I have heard a pastor make an analogy about how a person, in particular women, are deemed less valuable because they have had sex. They are likened to a chewed piece of bubblegum that nobody wants. Sexual repression also makes people feel terrible for having completely normal and healthy thoughts. This completely flies in the face of the described pursuit of human dignity. It actively makes a person feel a sense of shame about themselves. Sexual repression also does not help in forming “compassionate, constructive relationships” (Kimball 139). Speaking from personal experience, the sexual repression that was enforced upon my current girlfriend and I in our Baptist upbringings has not helped foster a loving relationship. All it has done is hold us back and make us feel awful about loving each other in a physical manner. This isn’t just my story though. Even one of my friends that I used to go to church with still runs into problems with his girlfriend with this very same issue. This kind of doctrine does not bring people closer together. It pushes people away and makes them resent themselves for being a normal human being, and as soon as one party begins to fall into those sexual, completely normal urges, then they are taught to remove those people from their
According the Bransby and her interpretation of the Bible, there are strict rules as to how a woman should dress. Bransby believes items such as satin slacks, bikini underwear, and swimsuits are marketed to have an erotic theme and suggest sin (23). However, I believe dressing in the afore mentioned items does not suggest sin. They only allow a woman to emphasize the God-given features of her body. Woman dress according to what is in style so that they can look fashionable; they do not dress in order to sin. Bransby also states that “sexy clothes set [a woman] up for ridicule…and causes people to wonder if she’s a born-again Christian or a prostitute” (26). I think it is a bit drastic to compare a born-again Christian with a prostitute. There is quite a wide range within those two extremes. Wearing sexy clothes does not eliminate one from being a Christian. However, supposing that Bransby is “correct” in her interpretation of the Bible on woman’s clothing, the demands are still outdated. In today’s society, people often judge others on their looks. Wearing clothing that enhances looks should not be considered sinful, as long as the clothing is not blatantly baring personal body parts.
In Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and their Sex Lives by Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez she expands on what the definition of the Mexican culture is. She compares the Mexican society to the society in LA. She discusses multiple things one of the things she discusses in her book is the meaning of virginity in the family and what sex represents. Gonzalez-Lopez interviews many individuals to talk about their culture and how they felt living in Mexico and how their points of views changed once they moved to LA. Religion and traditions are deeply integrated withing the Mexican culture. It’s drilled in the female’s mind to stay a virgin for her future husband and having sex with someone other than her future husband puts her family’s reputation on the line. In the Mexican culture, women are raised to be recessive to their husbands while the men are raised to be dominant in the household, sex, and work, which causes individuals that immigrate to LA to look at their culture differently; women are liberated and start being successful in their career, and not recessive to their husband; they don’t feel pressured into staying a virgin or worried of insulting their family’s reputation.
The American debate on homosexuality reveals an unquestionable, though awfully uninvited, fusion between religion and politics, revealing a dangerous lack of separation between the church and state. The concern is not about the presence of spirituality in American politics, but the implications institutionalized religion has on the lives and rights of human beings. Nothing hinders the political and social progress of lesbian women and gay men quite like the complexities of religion. Dating back to the beginning of literature itself, homosexuality is far from modern. Nonetheless, homosexuality is currently the most divisive and fiercely debated topic in recent religious discourse. While most Christians maintain allegiance in labeling same-sex relationships as morally wrong, the church is dramatically divided on the proper place for gays and lesbians in American society and of course, American politics.
In the first few readings of the Bible, we are introduced to God, a spiritual being, that made sex a core unit of humanity. In fact, it was his orders to Adam and Eve to “Be fruitful and multiply,” (Genesis 1:28). In this same book of Christian teachings we also see in the book of Songs of Solomon, many poems and singings celebrating sex and the union it creates. According to Christianity, sex is not something to be demonized. Sex is not a sinful act. In fact, God created sex for man to enjoy. It is the union between two people to bring them to a higher spiritual level. For example, in the book of Genesis chapter two verse 24 it says, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and...
In this book, the expectations of marriage and childbirth are discouraged, as shown in the following passage: “Thecla’s mother says to the fiancé, “Thamyris, this man is upsetting the city of the Iconians, and thy Thecla in addition; for all the women and young people go in to him, and are taught by him. “’You must’ he says, ‘ fear one single God only, and live chastely’” (APT 9). Paul discouraged marriage and sexuality in order for Christians to focus on
“…sex attains meaning in social relations, which implies that we can only make appropriate choices around sexuality by understanding its social, cultueral and political context.” (Quote: 9293 jeffrey weeks)
“In Islam, celibacy is considered unhealthy and unnatural” (Wilson 58). This is hard for me to understand because why does a women have to have sex with her husband if she doesn 't want to? I feel like their is a contradiction in this belief because Islam talks about how women are respected and their bodies are reserved , symbolic in the veiling of a women however, its almost like they do not have a choice when it comes to having intercourse with their husband. This goes against the feminist beliefs that I am used to that a women have control over their bodies and can choose when to have sex and can not be forced by her husband. In the same notion, does that mean that martial rape is not a “thing” in this culture? In order to comprehend this concept using Shepard’s principle I would have to bracket out my own feminist and Christian beliefs and understand that sex is only legitimate in a marriage and that it is a sin if a man or woman had sex outside of it. Looking at it from a Muslim perspective, the Quran states that everything that Allah created has a purpose and a women 's biological part of her body is to reproduce. Islam recognizes the human being natural sexual instincts and desire and it should not be
The idea of sexuality as constructed by Ancient Romans is wholly complex as was most of Roman society. An interesting way to look at Roman sexuality is through the lens of Roman society. Ancient Roman sexuality was not uniform throughout society and different societal classes created different types of sexualities. Three authors examine sexuality from three different social realms, the realm of the prostitute, the realm of Roman patricians in terms of contraception, and the realm of Vestal Virgins. Prostitutes in Rebecca Flemming's article, "Quae Corpore Quaestum Facit: The Sexual Economy of Female Prostitution in the Roman Empire" are a representation of lower class sexuality. Mary Beard's article, "The Sexual Status of Vestal Virgins" examines a form of deviant sexuality based around religious values. Lastly, Keith Hopkins' article," Contraception in the Roman Empire" examines the sexual practices of upper class Romans using contraception and abortifacents, vital conclusions about Ancient Roman society and sexuality can be determined.
When a man and a woman come together and bind in holy matrimony, two people become one. In marriage, two people come before the pastor and under God with their partner, to recite promises that are vows. In many religions such as Christianity and Catholicism, sex should be for left only for marriage. Sex is an emotional experience that is for married people to enjoy sexual pleasure together. Love and trust are sacred for the foundation of marriage.
The issues of sexual ethics in relation to morality and perversion have been addressed in depth by each of the gentleman at this table. Sexual activity as described by Solomon and Nagle is comprised of a moral standard and ‘naturalness’ aspect. So, in claiming an act is perverted we must first examine it through a moral framework and understand how this interacts with the ‘naturalness’ of a particular act. Solomon makes the distinction as follows “Perversion is an insidious concept…To describe an activity as perverse is not yet a full blown moral condemnation, for it need not entail that one ought not to indulge in such activities.” Along with the examination of the nature of an act, there must be clear justification as to why sexual acts deserve special separate ethical principles. The question arises: does an act simply due to its sexual nature deserve a separate form of moral inquisition than other acts that occur in nature? In this essay I shall argue that perversion and immorality are not mutually exclusive. By this I mean that a sexual act that is, by my definition, immoral must also be perverted. It is also my contention that if an act is perverted we must also define it as immoral. This second part of the argument is contrary to what many of you have claimed. At the outset of this paper I would also like to state my support of Thomas Nagel’s argument holding that the connection between sex and reproduction has no bearing on sexual perversion. (Nagel 105)
Another, quite different Fundamentalist confusion is the notion that celibacy is unbiblical, or even "unnatural." Every man, it is claimed, must obey the biblical injunction to "Be fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 1:28); and Paul commands that "each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband" (1 Cor. 7:2). It is even argued that celibacy somehow "causes," or at least correlates with higher incidence of, illicit sexual behavior or perversion.
Like many people in our time, Christians are studying and discussing issues related to human sexuality over many years. What is God’s view of sexuality? How are the pressures from a broader culture and the development of technology affecting God’s role in regards to human sexuality in tomorrow 's society?
From the book of Proverbs, we are also told that God designed marriage and sex not only as a means for bringing children into this world, but also as God's appointed means for a man to find pleasure in his wife. In the New Testament, we are told that Jesus attended a wedding in Cana of Galilee and miraculously provided wine when their supplies were exhausted. The Apostle Paul also had a great deal to say about the covenant that God ordained between man and woman. Paul assumed that elders and deacons would be married and have bare children. Paul also encouraged younger widows to marry and he claimed the right as an apostle to lead a wife.