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Good News: Early Sex Kills Religious Involvement
Last edited Sat Jun 6, 2015, 09:06 PM - Edit history (1)
For Teens, Religious Involvement Prevents Early Sex But Early Sex Kills Religious Involvement
From The Sexual Health Laboratory
Relatively extensive evidence has established that more religious adolescents tend to delay first sexual intercourse. In a paper that Sara Vasilenko and I published last year, we wanted to examine whether this association, usually assumed to be in this direction (from religiosity to sexual behavior), was actually bidirectional. We used the 100 participants from the University Life Study who transitioned to first intercourse between their first and seven semester in college. Our findings demonstrated that 12 months after transitioning to first intercourse, students attended religious services less frequently and viewed religion as less important than they had prior to first intercourse.
The upshot? The more religiously engaged your kids are, the more likely it is they will delay first sexual intercourse, BUT, if religious kids do have sex outside of marriage, it tends to kill their desire for religious involvement. The upshot for parents is two fold; First, work hard to cultivate rituals like family prayer and worship and carve out regular time for your kids to develop a personal prayer life. Second, if your kids do end up having sex before marriage, you don’t have to condone their behavior, but make sure to bombard them with your love, forgiveness and guidance and make sure they know that God loves them no matter what they have done. As the saying goes, the Church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. By all means, let’s work hard to give our kids the skills they need to maintain their virtue, but if they fall, let’s remind them that they are loved and welcome in the Church.
For more information on how to raise kids who can make godly choices in all their relationships, check out Beyond the Birds and the Bees: The Catholic Guide to Raising Sexually Whole and Holy Kids! You don’t have to go it alone. Let us help you do the most important work a parent can do; teach your kids how to love rightly and love well.
From The Sexual Health Laboratory
Relatively extensive evidence has established that more religious adolescents tend to delay first sexual intercourse. In a paper that Sara Vasilenko and I published last year, we wanted to examine whether this association, usually assumed to be in this direction (from religiosity to sexual behavior), was actually bidirectional. We used the 100 participants from the University Life Study who transitioned to first intercourse between their first and seven semester in college. Our findings demonstrated that 12 months after transitioning to first intercourse, students attended religious services less frequently and viewed religion as less important than they had prior to first intercourse.
The upshot? The more religiously engaged your kids are, the more likely it is they will delay first sexual intercourse, BUT, if religious kids do have sex outside of marriage, it tends to kill their desire for religious involvement. The upshot for parents is two fold; First, work hard to cultivate rituals like family prayer and worship and carve out regular time for your kids to develop a personal prayer life. Second, if your kids do end up having sex before marriage, you don’t have to condone their behavior, but make sure to bombard them with your love, forgiveness and guidance and make sure they know that God loves them no matter what they have done. As the saying goes, the Church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. By all means, let’s work hard to give our kids the skills they need to maintain their virtue, but if they fall, let’s remind them that they are loved and welcome in the Church.
For more information on how to raise kids who can make godly choices in all their relationships, check out Beyond the Birds and the Bees: The Catholic Guide to Raising Sexually Whole and Holy Kids! You don’t have to go it alone. Let us help you do the most important work a parent can do; teach your kids how to love rightly and love well.
If raising them to be ashamed of themselves for being human didn't scare them away from sex, just let them know that both Jeebus and you will forgive them their evil sins.
Sure, that'll bring 'em running back.
Welcome to atheism: where you don't have to feel guilty for liking sex
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Sorry, no sale. 
This is another example of religious sex education:
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Someone pray for me that I don't become religious!
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Only prayers to the FSM or the invisible pink unicorn are real prayers.
Infidel!
[/font]
But they accept everybody over there!
Slick and spasm, you put both arms up, across your face
You knees start wiggling, all over the place
You flap your arms and your feet start kicking
Then you know you doin' the funky chicken
Oh, I'm feeling it now, I feel so unnecessary
This is the kind, this is the kind of stuff
To make you feel like you want to do something nasty
Like waste some chicken gravy on your white shirt
Right down front, here we go y'all
You work both arms and you work both feet
Use a dab of gravy, you right on the beat
You flap your arms and your feet start kicking
Then you know, you doin' the funky chicken
Doin' the funky chicken, y'all
Doin' the funky chicken, y'all
Doin' the funky chicken, y'all
Sorry. Your post reminded me of this blast from the past.
You knees start wiggling, all over the place
You flap your arms and your feet start kicking
Then you know you doin' the funky chicken
Oh, I'm feeling it now, I feel so unnecessary
This is the kind, this is the kind of stuff
To make you feel like you want to do something nasty
Like waste some chicken gravy on your white shirt
Right down front, here we go y'all
You work both arms and you work both feet
Use a dab of gravy, you right on the beat
You flap your arms and your feet start kicking
Then you know, you doin' the funky chicken
Doin' the funky chicken, y'all
Doin' the funky chicken, y'all
Doin' the funky chicken, y'all
Sorry. Your post reminded me of this blast from the past.