And I didn't say you very strongly stated anything. I said your post very strongly implied that having multiple sex partners by itself leads to sterility and/or cancer.
oh boy - neither my statements or implications were strong at all. If that's very strong, then I'd hate to see very strong.
But people can protect themselves from STDs very effectively without sticking to abstinence. A properly informed and careful man or woman can have an active sex life with many partners without running a very high risk of contracting STDs. Also, most STDs can be treated very effectively, but one must be ready to admit that one has contracted it before being able to seek treatment. People who try to be abstinent tend to have a harder time with this step than those who treat their sexuality as a natural thing to be enjoyed.
And this is the righteous lifestyle that God promotes? That if you live that way (without having to use modern advanced technology or being treated by a Dr. when you get the STD that you'de end up Dead or seriously harmed)
it brings you physical harm just by having NATURAL SEX as God designates and by His design????
Abstinence, meanwhile, is a concept with a notoriously bad track record - it just doesn't work in practice.
So now you're trying to tell me that PEOPLE WHO
DON'T HAVE PREMARITAL SEX ARE IN DANGER?
I assure you, I'd much rather have some unfullfilled urges than to have a list of sexual partners I scored and having constant fear of pregnancy at any time, the relational pressures of breaking up after being sexually bonded together, being on the Pill (which gynocologists are speaking out on being unsafe for women in long term use), chronic guilt & feeling used or cheap... etc etc.
I lived the lifestyle you're promoting here! I had multiple partners over a span of 14 yrs., I lived with 2 of them as well.
The "fun" was only temporary, the
majority of it caused me alot of emotional pain, anguish and hangups that today affect me in many ways.
So I'm not speaking out of an ignorant 'stuffy, prim & proper' position, I was a party girl; and had both serious relationships & brief ones (like 1 nite).
The sexual desire of young people is simply too strong to subdue with flimsy moral preaching and the result tends to be increased teen pregnancy and STD rates.
Had you stopped to ask WHY THE DESIRES ARE SO STRONG TODAY THAT they're 'out of self control'?
LOOK AT THE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT ENVIRONMENT we're saturated with daily!
You have kids on the web who click a link and go right to hardcore PORN, they see porn & sexual images in nearly ALL entertainment venues today,
the pop culture (britney spears, Aguillara, Madonna, and many other celebs) is OOZING w/ sexuality & inuendo.
You have 13 year old little girls at a Britney Spears concert watching her girate in see-through/skimpy outfits w/ male dancers groping her... then wonder why girls are exploring sex more aggressively.
Have you wondered why the stats on girls show that a large percentage have EATING DISORDERS and body dismorphia issues???
MEDIA/ENTERTAINMENT portrays what girls should like, and it's to be rail thin with fake boobs and wear sexually suggestive clothes which then attracts the boys.
THOSE are the ones that get the attn, not the regular girls.
You're ignoring the lewd society we're in to claim that the sexual desires are beyond our self control and are naturally that overpowering. I say, FALSE!.
I say, it's not natural, it's being CREATED in an overly sexually charged environment.
THAT PLAYS A LARGE PART IN CREATING SEXUALLY OVERCHARGED PEOPLE as they view it and it has its effect.
Our culture is producing basic sex addicts that are preoccupied with it.
You're basically saying this: "since God created us with a sexual desire, then we HAVE to obey our desires becuz they exist in us naturally".
We're no more in control of ourselves than an Animal in heat.
In Christianity, this is called being CARNAL and sensual - people who obey their lusts without exercising self control.
GOD'S Word says:
1Cr 7:9But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn {with passion.}
Gal 5:22 But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Gal 5:23 gentleness,
self-control; against such things there is no law.
Gal 5:24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
The truth is,
following God comes with a price; it's called DYING TO SELF to glorify God who holds man to a higher standard than staying in bondage to his own carnal lusts and natural desires.
It is much more effective to be honest and state risks and rewards of all available options and highlight the simple fact that it is up to each individual if, when, how and with whom they want to have sex.
Honest? Try TRUTH of God. Just becuz a desire exists, doesn't mean we're to follow in obeying it for gratification.
Simply untrue. Abstinence leads to increased sexual tension, which in extreme cases can lead to sexual deviancy. Do you think it's a coincidence that so many cases of paedophilia occur in organisations where abstinence is strongly promoted? As every man knows, the longer you go without sexual release, the stronger the urge to have sex gets - and the wilder the fantasies and desires associated with it. A healthy sex life with regular intercourse (or masturbation) prevents that. I do understand that it works somewhat differently for women, though.
What's your point? Ancient people didn't have antibiotics either, so they died from simple things like the flu. We don't, because we have the means to protect ourselves. We must realize that our situation - in this matter and in almost every other - is different from theirs, and behave accordingly.
Neither is abstinence, in practice, because teenagers will have sex regardless of what you tell them.
Sorry, this is all biased propaganda imo.
You're making excuses to sin based on the fact that people have natural desires.
Paul covered this, IF YOU BURN IN LUST and lack any self control & HAVE to sex w/ others, then get married & do it within God's boundaries to keep from living in sin.
Lastly, you ignore one significant fact in God's ordinance of sexual union -
THE ACT MAKES THE 2 PEOPLE "ONE"... in Genesis, God ordained Adam and Eve to become ONE together.
(Mt. 19:4-6)
Anyone you have illicit sex with you're becoming "ONE" -
which creates the marital unit!
You are permantently marrying
in God's eyes when you have sex - that is the union. To have sex with more than one person, is to commit
adultery against the first person you were ONE (married to in God's eyes) with.
1Cr 6:16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body {with her?} For He says, "
THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." 1Cr 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit {with Him.}
1Cr 6:18 Flee immorality. Every {other} sin that a man commits is outside the body,
but the immoral man sins against his own body.
1Cr 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God,
and that you are not your own? 1Cr 6:20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
*prostitute/harlot Greek definition:
1) a woman who sells her body for sexual uses
a) a prostitute, a harlot, one who
yields herself to defilement for the sake of gain
b) any woman indulging in unlawful sexual intercourse, whether for gain or for lust
(the key here is that unwed sex is already defilement, she's defiling herself FOR the specific gain - and gain absolutely includes the gaining of self gratification/ not just material payments)
And let's not forget, the women in the biblical Jewish culture were to remain VIRGINS until marriage... another example of why your promotion of unwed sex doesn't work. IF premarital sex were God's righteous design and plan, THE VIRGINITY ISSUE of Jewish women wouldn't be any issue at all - they could have sex w/ whoever they wanted.
In closing, IF AND SINCE THE SEX ACT ITSELF IS WHAT CONSTITUTES MARRIAGE IN GOD'S EYES (making them ONE unit which is the marriage covenant; binding them together until death), THEN EACH TIME A NEW PARTNER IS TAKEN ON, THEY COMMIT ADULTERY!
Hbr 13:4Marriage 1062 is to be held in honor 5093 among 1722 all 3956, and the marriage bed 2845 is to be undefiled 283; for fornicators 4205 and adulterers 3432 God 2316 will judge 2919.
Either way you look at this, your promotion of unwed sex violates scripture in several ways.
When I make one, I stand by it, and I don't make them unless I'm sure first. 
