Sexual Tension

FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION: THAT YOU ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY; THAT EACH ONE OF YOU KNOW HOW TO CONTROL HIS OWN BODY IN HOLINESS AND HONOR, NOT IN THE PASSION OF LUST LIKE THE GENTILES WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD;

1 THESSALONIANS 4:3-5

STATISTICS

For the majority of teens their first sexual intercourse was with someone with whom they were “going steady” (female teens: 74%; male teens: 51%). Only a small percentage of teens had their first sexual intercourse with someone they had “just met” (female teens: 2%; male teens: 7%).

Among teen females aged 15-19, 42% reported having ever had sex; among teen males, the percent was 44%.

Among younger teens, males are more likely to have had sex than females but by age 17, the probability of having sexual intercourse was similar for males and females.  By age 18, 55% of both males and females have had sex.

Among those teens who had not yet had sex, the most common reasons for abstaining were: “it was against religion or morals,” and “haven’t found the right person yet.

Among high school students questioned about the pressure for sex in high school, 50% said that they’d been pressured into a sexual situation in which they were uncomfortable

Boys were 10% more likely to be pressured by their friends to share sexual experiences.

GIVING YOURSELF ALWAYS HAS A COST

REGRET, SHAME, GUILT

FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION: THAT YOU ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY; THAT EACH ONE OF YOU KNOW HOW TO CONTROL HIS OWN BODY IN HOLINESS AND HONOR, NOT IN THE PASSION OF LUST LIKE THE GENTILES WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD;

1 THESSALONIANS 4:3-5

SEXUAL IMMORALITY=FORNICATION=PORNEIA

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

1 Co 6:18–20.

Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was taken out of Man.”

Ge 2:23.

DONT CONFUSE YOUR RIGHT NOW FOR YOUR AT LAST

https://sites.psu.edu/victoriathacker138t/2017/02/16/fitting-in/

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-new-cdc-report-on-u-s-teens-sexual-behavior-illustrates-adolescents-continued-need-for-sex-education-and-effective-birth-control

https://news.gallup.com/poll/329708/lgbt-identification-rises-latest-estimate.aspx

http://www.postchristiancondition.org/2018/08/16/sexuality-and-personal-identity-in-a-gen-z-world-changing-perspectives/