Sex is everything. Sex is nothing. So which is it? The way some people talk, you'd think sex is like food—three meals a day or else we starve and die. On the other hand, you know sex definitely isn't nothing. It's too potent, too instinctive to simply deny. Sooner or later, everybody deals with it.
This student journal, What (Almost) Nobody Will Tell You About Sex, is a whole-person approach to sexuality and God. In other words, sex is more than pelvises and plumbing. Sexuality is woven throughout all of a young person—body, mind, and spirit. It's the way we're wired. The way God wired us. Which means that if we want the ultimate enjoyment from sex—the right person, the right time, the right motives—we need to appreciate and work with that body-mind-spirit connection. And this journal helps youth do just that, with large doses of their own perceptions about sexuality and insight from the Bible—insight that just may surprise them, from the One who wired them to be a sexual being in the first place.
Here's some of the stuff they'll find inside:
- Sextalk—Cultural and biblical messages about sex
- Sexual identity—How people think about sexuality
- Intimacy—Dating and nonsexual closeness
- Desire—The difference between appetites and needs
- Boundaries—How far is too far?
- Responsibility—Our sexual responsibilities to God and each other
- Do-overs—Mercy, repentance, forgiveness, and restoration