Sexual Revolution 2.0: Sex and Christianity 8

November 08, 2011 by Tim Muldoon

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Second, it will mean coming to see others as they really are: not as objects, but as fully enfleshed human beings.

Third, it will mean learning the obvious good of learning to say no to sexual cravings, not unlike the way we say no to food cravings, and developing a more robust understanding of sexual health as one element in the good of the person and the human family.

Fourth, it will most certainly not mean teaching children that sex "just happens" any more than smoking or Frisbee-playing. Sex is a conscious choice precipitated by many other conscious choices. Children must be taught how to choose what they eat, how they use their time, how to sleep, how to play soccer, how to do homework, and how to develop friendships. Their choices around sex must be given as much or more care and attention by adults who love them.

Fifth, it will mean moving beyond the idea that sex is about orgasms with friends. It must give rise to a more expansive understanding of human striving, of human community, of human hope. For orgasms with friends are about the drug highs of mammalian brains, whereas real friendship is rooted in hope.

In short: Sexual Revolution 2.0 must be rooted in the truth of persons and not the cravings of mammalian brains. It must be about love and the ways that love must always reach beyond the self, even beyond the other, to the goods of friendship, lifelong bonding, and children.

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Tim Muldoon holds a Ph.D. in Catholic systematic theology and is an award-winning author and Catholic theologian of the new evangelization.

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