Losing Our Promiscuity
The church has an unprecedented chance to reach a generation burned by commitment-free sex
By Paula Rinehart | posted 7/7/00
July 10, 2000
You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals;
so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. If there's nothing missing in my life,
then why do these tears come at night? "I didn't want to have a bad experience in losing my virginity—;like some of my friends," she says. "So I found a guy I knew but didn't feel anything special for, and I had sex with him. That way I could just get it over with." Your virginity was something you wanted to "just get over"? "Well, sure. That way I could enjoy sex more with guys I really cared about." These words explain her logic, one alien to my own but so representative of the sexual world of her generation. Losing one's virginity, in many cases, is a girl's rite of passage into relationships and sex—;where, it seems, all the happy people live. "Can you picture what it would have felt like to be really cherished by a man, to be so special to him that he wanted to protect your innocence? Can you sense what it would mean to be that valued by a man?" The Lost Ones
The Mourning After
Shall We Dance?
When Freedom Isn't
Waking Up to Reality
Something to Talk About
The Soul of Sex
A Compelling Alternative
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