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Safe Sex? There is No Such Thing
by C. Michael PattonJune 18th, 2012
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From Michael Hidalgo:
The term “Safe Sex” refers to using protection so that you don’t contract a sexually transmitted disease from your partner. It’s encourages people to use contraception to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. “Safe sex” promises that you can sleep with someone with the proper things in their proper place, and walk away from the encounter without having contracted a disease or conceived a child.
But what “Safe Sex” ignores is that sex is far more than a physical transaction. It only considers the physical dimension of a human being. It reduces us to copulating animals, for it ignores the spiritual and emotional connection that is forged in sex.
You may be able to protect yourself physically while having sex, but the reality is “Safe Sex” is a myth. What protection is there to prevent to intertwining of minds, hearts, and souls that happens when two people are joined together sexually?
Sex, by its very nature is not safe. It is the ultimate act in giving your whole self away to another person. It requires vulnerability that no other relationship asks for. It is to be fully exposed to another human being. It’s putting your full naked self out there as a gift – that’s risky.
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There is no such thing as “safe sex”. I’ve been told that God only created sex after the Fall so it was never “good” like the rest of creation. Jesus and his mother Mary were probably history’s most famous asexuals. And chastity was the norm for the church’s employees for the majority of history. Perhaps maybe we should take a clue from them.
Mary wasn’t asexual. She had other children after Jesus, and Jesus probably wasn’t asexual either.
The Safe Sex line is a misnomer. Condoms fail sometimes there is no 100%. This only takes care of the threat of STD’s and pregnancy if nothing fails or in the heat of the happenings this step is missed all together. These deal with physical ailments.
Few people address the mental health side. Scars often stay with people for sometime because let themselves be pressured into this by a pushy partner.
I would state here if you have children 18 and under and those in the college years to keep them away from personality tests like the MMPI and such. These tests ask questions about one’s sex life and other very personal questions that can be very traumatic for a young person. These tests see standing up for one’s principles as a bad thing too.
Can you guess which branch of the government regulates these test? notta…zilch ….They do not do long term studies that are required of drug companies.
You see this industry regulates itself. The American Psychology Association is the governing body. The tests are considered intellectual property. This lets them
out of liability cases where drug companies do not have the luxury.
If you go to the FDA website and the definition of a diagnostic tool that is a non pharmaceutical it seems the tests should be under there jurisdiction. Do you feel comfortable with an industry regulating itself? Letting the fox guard the hen house? There has been corruption in the FDA. Now think about it, if that has happened do you wonder what might be behind such an arrangement?
Back to the sex issue. If a son or daughter came to me and had the decision they were going to be active. They would get a good heart to heart. I would pray this changed his/her mind but in the end what would most responsible parents do? I would opt for the most protection possible for my child.
How do you know Jesus wasn’t abstinent? He made wine for a wedding. I think if he had a wife as one movie suggested there would be some record written .
So I just happened to StumbleUpon this site, as somebody was kind enough to index it (why I have no idea), and have thoroughly enjoyed my stay. The degree of which social progress is being voluntarily suppressed is astounding. Who says we can’t just forever stay in the 19th century, right? High fives all around!
Jesus was not asexual . the Scripture mentions He was subject to ALL the same temptations that affect men. He lived His life as a celibate.