Category: Christian Sexuality
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Masturbation For Christians 101 (Part D)
Christian Application and Practice of Masturbation In Part C of this series we focused on the specific reasons for Christians to partake of masturbation in their daily spiritual walk. As we saw, masturbation can be prescribed as a type of sexual therapy in secular contexts and we believe that Christians can apply the same principles…
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Masturbation For Christians 101 (Part C)
Blessings of Masturbation : Sex Therapy For Christians There are a number of physical benefits of masturbation which will be lightly touched upon here (see some of the earlier blog posts referencing various articles in mainstream media for example) because the main purpose of this post is to focus on the blessings for Christians who…
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Masturbation For Christians 101 (Part B)
Masturbation Gotchas We could choose to write a blog that lists pros and cons of masturbation. There are many possible pros, but we would limit our discussion to the really important ones for people of Godly character, and then further on in this series. For this part. we are going to focus on some of…
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Masturbation For Christians 101 (Part A)
Introduction This series of posts will attempt to summarise the key questions surrounding masturbation as it applies to Christian believers. As it can be generally observed, masturbation is the key focus of this blog and reflects our significant ministry interests. We are approaching this article series from a evangelical-egalitarian theological perspective, and therefore, key themes…
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“Confessions of a Horny Christian Single Girl”
It’s been very refreshing to discover this blog and to understand the perspective expressed in it. As we have seen from some of the recent posts that have been put up, the evangelical purity movement, based on “complimentarian” theology, essentially teaches that women are lesser beings sexually, that women don’t have or shouldn’t have sexual…
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Rachel Held Evans:: Christians & Masturbation: Seven Perspectives
https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/christians-masturbation
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The Science AND Theology of Being Horny
…It is very surprising that many Christians advocate for and propagate men’s sexual drive without giving thought to the real what, why and wherefore of what they’re talking about from the perspective of both science and theology. Rather, they base this simply upon ‘male privilege’ and their imagined reality of the male anatomy, physiology and…
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Everybody Masturbates: Reclaiming Masturbation
…Masturbation is a valid biological need of our bodies as others. It’s taken a horrible place in the church because of its sexual nature. But to deny or demonize it would be as disastrous as denying or demonizing any other biological functions of our bodies (like farts). Therefore, I’d like to make the bold claim,…
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How the Purity Movement Made Women Giddy About Dating Jesus, and Ashamed to Masturbate
…Many purity advocates teach that women aren’t very sexual, and so don’t need a way to vent their repressed sexual energy in their single years. But that’s not what I usually hear. “Dating Jesus” was just one of many work-arounds I heard about from women who wanted to remain pure but couldn’t deaden their sexual,…
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Memoirist: Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women’s Bodies As A ‘Threat’
When Linda Kay Klein was 13, she joined an evangelical church that prized sexual “purity” and taught that men and boys were sexually weak. According to Klein’s faith, girls and women were responsible for keeping male sexual desire in check by wearing modest clothing, maintaining a sexless mind and body and taking a “purity pledge,”…