awfully earnest about any sexual topic. I think he is clearly talking about his opinion rather than Jesus’ message, but I can see where it could be taken very literally.

It really challenges me to identify my own moral beliefs about sexual behavior (as does my status as mom to 2 teens). What I’ve tried to teach them is probably the truest representation of my own beliefs. I told them that sexual contact touches the deepest part of your soul and has enormous impact on your feelings, creating a vulnerability that almost nothing else creates. That this is powerful and you need to think carefully about who you are allowing yourself to be so emotionally open with. That I thought sex for its own sake is, I think, morally wrong, because it dismisses the person whose body you are touching. And that I hoped they would wait until they are sure about the person’s concern for them.

All the rest is perhaps just overkill.