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After a lifetime of competing messages about premarital sex I embraced my faith and decided to wait.
As a teenager, I had secretly assumed that many of these restrictions were out-dated and unnecessary, thus I decided to try and intellectually prove that premarital sex fit into that category. Over a period of months, whenever I had free time I would dive into the index of my Bible and search for all the verses that said anything at all about sex. I read over them carefully, searching for a loophole—some fact, some story, some statement that I could pluck up and use as my justification.
When we became more dedicated to our faith, we learned we had to give up sex before marriage.
I'm a guy who really enjoyed his (soon to be) wife. But I felt like I was supposed to stop having sex with this woman. My prayers went something like this: "Really God? That's what you want me to do? But we're getting married in just a couple months. What's the big deal about it? Isn't getting married enough? Why do we need to stop having sex?" I never got up the courage to pray about moving out. I was afraid of what the answer might be.
Brigham Young University researchers say abstaining from sex makes for better marriage.
Couples who wait 'til "I do" to do it might be happier with the quality of sex and enjoy a stable, happier marriage than couples who have sex before they take their vows. So says a new study which appears in the Journal of Family Psychology.
A young woman attends a conference on faith and sex and comes out changed.
In any other sense of the word, I wouldn't tolerate using someone or being used. I won't date someone for his social status, befriend someone for the simple goal of getting ahead professionally, and I most certainly wouldn't sleep with an older man in exchange for being taken care of. But here I was sleeping with people because they were there, because my body had an urge, one that I clearly didn't feel the need to examine.
On my sixteenth birthday my dad gave me an abstinence ring. It was yellow gold that wrapped around my finger into the shape of a small heart. "This is to remind you to stay pure until you get married," he said when I put it on. Secretly, I thought the ring was ugly.
Plus sex advice from the abstinent and what he really means.
Overrated places to have sex. Great places for outdoor sex in the summertime. Why being a foreigner is a turn-on. Fake accent pick up line fails. The douchiest things guys do for love. The 7 deadly sins of divorce. Should guys wear a relationship ring? The danger of undefined relationships. Why he likes making more money than you. Sleep sex is waaaay more common than previously thought. And what abstinence can teach us about sex.
Go Red For Women Day, finding love at Super Bowl parties, and an 11 year old gives birth.
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He's slept with 150 other women, but refuses to have sex with me!
He does not want to sleep with me. It's been three weeks and nothing. Not just nothing—I mean the complete absence of sexuality in an awkward, platonic way. We go out to dinner several nights a week and we kiss, hug, and hold hands in public. I've met most of his friends at this point and we've even spent nights together. And yet, nothing. I have tried every trick in the book to get him to seal the deal—I've smooched and even fondled him. And yet Matt remands steadfast and as abstinent as a priest.
Abstaining from a sex life and choosing celibacy for reasons other than religion.
Recently Bristol and mom Sarah Palin made a headline-grabbing appearance on Oprah where one of the bigger headlines came out of Bristol's vow to abstain from sex and remain celibate until marriage. Whether you see this as a sincere vow of a teen mom humbled by the grown-up situation she's put herself in, or a as a publicity stunt aimed at boosting her and her ambitious mother's conservative image, celibacy is a movement that is gaining attention in both the teen and adult worlds as a lifestyle choice.
