The largest unknown
To be chaste to be pure to be scandalous to be sexual to be hot to be not to be inquisitive to be quiet to be devout to be holy to be virtuous to be fulfilled to be hungry to be wanting to be satisfied...to be happy.
All encompass ones sexuality.
Brace yourself for the undiscussed. Be prepared to find here not what you will find out there. It is not custom to identify with your sexuality. It is hidden, it is poked, it is laughed at and joked, but hardly ever brought into serious discussion. It is no shame that I am a sexual creature. Born with desires, living with the need to fulfill them. Then why, if this is the case for everyone under the moon, can we not discuss them? The entire topic complexes me. I warn you, I follow the God who created me and the life for which He intends for fulfillment upon me and just the same contain curiousity. I am a Christian talking about sex.
I remember when I first learned about sex. Contrary to the regular upbrining, my knowledge came not from my own parents but the parents of a close friend. One day she decided it was time her children, my brother and I understood where babies came from and basically, gave me the basis for which we would think every 5 minutes for the rest of my life. She sat us down and read outloud a small book with published pictures, very detailed right down to the most private parts of both halves. I imagine I was confused, but none the less took the information and went. My curiousity comes in here; why was this action that moves and motivates out lives, relationships, culture, and religion as it is today explained solely physically? Why must we wait until some pimply teenage boy gets a boner in class for us to understand that there is more to the act than emotionless contact. As far as I knew, sex was like patty-cake. Certain slapping and touching motions that had a rhyme and reason and you had to have a partner who knew what they were doing or else the game didn't play out.
I wonder how sex would be viewed if children were taught differently. Think of the possibilities. What if upon inquisition, the parents gave no exact definition of the reasons for sex but rahter went into detail about the extreme pleasure that is the motive behind the patty-cake. They make lists, give example, and provide types for the ultimate sexual experience. Now, obviously this would not be okay! The child would go out and make a pimp of himself and destroy the innocence of all the young women in the world, and most of all his own. Or would he? Studies suggest reckless experimentation comes rather from ignorance than excess amounts or knowledge.
what if parents gave no explanation what so ever? What if no texts were published, no corny teen movies made, no graphic childrens books published that explained the miracle of sex? Would our society still drive the desire to have intercourse with as many women as possible if the outcomes were unknown and the act unpublicized? Would it be, then, such an emotional act discovered by the intimate few with no logical force driving it that people would eventually pair off into life long partners? Or would sex cease and people turn to self-pleasure when they discover that they were created with fun censors and sensitive gagets with no real purpose? For sure sex has gone beyond procreation even for the devout Christian. Now we have labs for that.
Sex is, was, and will be. To deny that anyone craves it is to point out a childhood trauma or chemical imbalance stabilized post 7 years of age, when sexuality is solidified.
Upon writing this I wish not to offend or be painted as a closet pervert. Rather I think it important to recognize sex and in a moral way if nothing else. It is okay to think about it, discuss it, and even want it. God created it for pleasure so be it. But please recognise, pleasure does not equal fulfillment. Gratification does not equal happiness. Happiness cannot be found in physical acts for they soak the very outter layer of a man. Unlike a sponge the outter layer of a man has no saturation point; often one will please to thier delight and never tire. But with the over-attention to the visible comes the neglect of the untouched. Only the soul, the inner being of every man, the heart of ones character, ones life, ones future and ones faith that permeate the very being of a man, is innocent of physical pleasures. This space if reserved for pure fulfillment found in the truth.