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Sons, Sex and Reality Ten things you need to unlearn before having that 'big talk' with junior. As I trotted onto the field for the first day of 7th-grade football practice, I had a feeling it as not all it had been cracked up to be.
The helmet issued to me had humps over each of my ears because my body had not quite caught up to the growth of my head. My dad stood off behind the practice field watching as my teammates laughed at what appeared to be the strangest helmet anyone had ever seen. The problem was that it was planted on my head.
Chewing nervously on my mouthpiece, I caught a glimpse of Dad, who appeared to be standing 10 miles away. I remember the thoughts crossing my mind: Did he ever go through this? Did he get picked on, laughed at, made a fool of? Did his helmet ever look like mine?
Passion As God Intended If men and women were created to be compatible sexually, why do we have so many sex problems in marriage today? After working for 20 years as sexual therapists, the answer to that question becomes clearer to us each day.
The enemy of our souls will do whatever he can to distort sex and rob the beauty from it. He knows that a God-breathed view of sex is a threat to his domain. One thing is clear: to understand and experience sex as God intended can reveal amazing clues about spiritual truth. And the converse is true: to understand spiritual truth will send the sexual relationship into orbit.
But few people enjoy out-of-this-world sex. Why? Because few men understand what it means to love their wife as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her. Ephesians 5 reads, “Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting” (The Message, emphasis ours.)
Dad, Can We Talk? I'll always remember the time my stepfather tried to talk to me about sex. Our conversation was under 30 seconds, and it went like this: "Doug, keep it in your pants." As I travel around the country doing conferences, I frequently ask men, "How many of you have had more than a three-minute sex talk with your dads?" Usually, about 3 percent of the men in the audience raise their hands.
That means more than 97 percent of men in the church were not told much, if anything at all, about sex! That's too bad, because we live in tempting times.
Young men today will see as many as 15-17 sexual innuendoes per hour on prime-time television--with more than 100 channels to choose from. Then there's the Internet, which is like being wired to the world's largest porn shop.
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