{"id":20,"date":"2004-06-11T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-03-01T17:06:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T00:06:38","slug":"sex-pornography-and-reverence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2004\/06\/11\/sex-pornography-and-reverence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Pornography and Reverence"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hesch posted<\/a> about a substitute teacher who viewed porn in class that some students inadvertently saw after coming to his desk.<\/p>\n

The students apparently went to the principal?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s office and reported<\/a> that the teacher ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ec”was looking at bad things on the computer?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9.<\/p>\n

I?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2m not saying the children did anything wrong in reporting the teacher, but I have to wonder about the use of the term ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ecbad things?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9. It seems in religious society, sex and the naked body are viewed as ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ecbad?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9. I?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2m not so sure they are absolutely. In certain contexts, the naked body is very beautiful and even minimalistic. In certain contexts, the act of sex is an intimate and sacred event.<\/p>\n

I have met a number of people who teach their children about chastity with blanket statements like ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ecsex is bad. I think that is wrong. I think parents have a responsibility to teach their children that it isn?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t the act of sex or nudity itself that are wrong; it is their existence outside of certain contexts that is wrong.<\/p>\n

Believe or not, I have met a few people who felt a pang of uneasiness, shame or even guilt when they encountered sex for the first time, after marriage.<\/p>\n

That being said, I also know some people who looked so forward to having sex after they were married for sex’s sake that their reverence for the event was almost nonexistent.<\/p>\n

So on one hand there?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s so much innocence, shame and naivety, yet on the other had there is so much baseness, carnality and irreverence. How do we come to the middle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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