Stay\u00ading sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly pure in a pol\u00adlut\u00aded world seems to be get\u00adting hard\u00ader and hard\u00ader. At least, that\u2019s the impres\u00adsion any\u00adone speak\u00ading with Chris\u00adt\u00adian col\u00adlege stu\u00addents would get\u2026<\/p>\n
Turns out they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the inter\u00adsec\u00adtion of biol\u00ado\u00adgy and cul\u00adture. Over the past 150 years, the aver\u00adage for menarche\u2014a wom\u00adan\u2019s first period\u2014has dropped from near\u00adly sev\u00aden\u00adteen to twelve years of age with no signs of stop\u00adping. (Among African-Amer\u00adi\u00adcans in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, the fig\u00adure is clos\u00ader to eleven!) His\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal data for males is hard\u00ader to come by but, with\u00adout being too explic\u00adit, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan males, on aver\u00adage, are \u201csex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly func\u00adtion\u00adal\u201d by twelve years of age. (Once again, the fig\u00adure is slight\u00adly low\u00ader for African-Amer\u00adi\u00adcans.) At the same time the aver\u00adage age for puber\u00adty and menar\u00adche has been going down, the aver\u00adage age for first mar\u00adriage has been going up: from 22.8 for men and 20.3 for women in 1950 to 27 and 25 today. For the college-educated\u2014the sta\u00adtus to which most Amer\u00adi\u00adcans aspire, both per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly and for their kids\u2014the aver\u00adage age is near\u00adly two years high\u00ader. (Between 1970 and 1994, the per\u00adcent\u00adage of women aged thir\u00adty to thir\u00adty-four who had nev\u00ader been mar\u00adried rose from 6 to 22 per\u00adcent. For men, the fig\u00adures were 9 and 30 per\u00adcent, respec\u00adtive\u00adly.)<\/i><\/p>\n
The bot\u00adtom line of all these num\u00adbers is that young Chris\u00adtians are expect\u00aded to remain sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly con\u00adti\u00adnent for a longer peri\u00adod of time than prob\u00ada\u00adbly any gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion that has pre\u00adced\u00aded them. And they\u2019re sup\u00adposed to do this while liv\u00ading in the most sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly charged cul\u00adture ever seen.<\/p>\n
Read the whole arti\u00adcle at Break\u00adpoint<\/a> <\/p>\n You might be inter\u00adest\u00aded to read the thoughts which prompt\u00aded Break\u00adpoint\u2019s arti\u00adcle: All worth read\u00ading and reflect\u00ading on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stay\u00ading sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly pure in a pol\u00adlut\u00aded world seems to be get\u00adting hard\u00ader and hard\u00ader. At least, that\u2019s the impres\u00adsion any\u00adone speak\u00ading with Chris\u00adt\u00adian col\u00adlege stu\u00addents would get\u2026 Turns out they\u2019re right. Then there\u2019s the inter\u00adsec\u00adtion of biol\u00ado\u00adgy and cul\u00adture. Over the past 150 years, the aver\u00adage for menarche\u2014a wom\u00adan\u2019s first period\u2014has dropped from near\u00adly sev\u00aden\u00adteen \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cWow, It Real\u00adly Is Get\u00adting Hard\u00ader\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* There\u2019s No Such Thing As Pre\u00admar\u00adi\u00adtal Sex<\/a> launched it by claim\u00ading that once two peo\u00adple sleep togeth\u00ader they\u2019re mar\u00adried and seeks to sup\u00adport his posi\u00adtion from the Law of Moses.
\n* A Horse\u00adless Car\u00adriage<\/a> rebutted the charge. She did an out\u00adstand\u00ading job, and used a very per\u00adsua\u00adsive anal\u00ado\u00adgy: To cite the Exo\u00addus ref\u00ader\u00adence requir\u00ading a man to make right his seduc\u00adtion of a vir\u00adgin (which, inci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly, falls in a long list of ways to make ret\u00adri\u00adbu\u00adtion when bad things hap\u00adpen) as evi\u00addence that the act of sex, rather than a process of mar\u00adriage and con\u00adsum\u00adma\u00adtion, made the two peo\u00adple mar\u00adried, makes about as much sense as argu\u00ading that a law requir\u00ading a thief to pay for the pie he has already con\u00adsumed real\u00adly means that the pie was right\u00adful\u00adly and beau\u00adti\u00adful\u00adly his the moment the first bite crossed his lips.<\/i> The author of the orig\u00adi\u00adnal arti\u00adcle responds on the same page and clar\u00adi\u00adfies his posi\u00adtion (and even makes a few inter\u00adest\u00ading claims along the way).<\/p>\n