Culture and religion both often get it wrong when it comes to our sexuality. Culture misses the oneness factor and religion misses the funness factor.

3. So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27

4. Then God blessed them and said,
“Be fruitful and multiply.”
Genesis 1:28

6. “People enter into them because ‘they are a way
to have sex without commitment, while at the
same time having the comfort and security of
being with somebody you know,’ Levine said.”
The keeping thingsStateoften means
But Lansing casual Journal
undermining the trust that made the relationship
attractive in the first place, turning the nature
of the relationship, what it means, and where it’s
going into a subject both partners are afraid to
discuss.

7. But keeping things casual often means under-mining
the trust that made the relationship attractive in
the first place, turning the nature of the
relationship, what it means, and where it’s going into
a subject both partners are afraid to discuss.
The Lansing State Journal

8. How the Sex-Obsessed Culture
Damages Girls (and America Too!)

9. “I like her shoes, her shoes are awesome . . .”
“I like her bra . . .”
“I find teddy bears are in . . .”
“Yeah, I love teddy bears . . .”
“Every girl is still a little girl.”
girls’ responses to ad

10. “Damn she’s hot!”
“Look how hot that girl is!”
“She has nice legs.”
quot;She’s horny!”
boys’ responses to ad

11. “The sex symbols saturating the media are
creating a sense of sexual competition that’s
unprecedented in human history. This barrage of
beauty can lead to insecurity, dissatisfaction,
and infidelity.”
wired for sex documentary

12. “Freedom from all sexual intercourse is . . .
angelic exercise . . . But I am aware of some that
murmur: ‘What say they, if all men should
abstain from all sexual intercourse, whence
will the human race exist?’”
saint augustine

13. “[How] much more speedily would the City of God
be filled, and the end of the world hastened.”
saint augustine

16. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a
deep sleep. While the man slept, the LORD God
took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the
opening. Then the LORD God made a woman from
the rib, and he brought her to the man.
genesis 2:21,22

17. “At last!” the man exclaimed.
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from ‘man.’”
genesis 2:23

18. This explains why a man leaves his father and
mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are
united into one.
genesis 2:24

19. Now the man and his wife were both naked, but
they felt no shame.
genesis 2:25

20. This explains why a man leaves his father and
mother and is joined to his wife, and the two
are united into one.
genesis 2:24

21. Now the man and his wife were both naked, but
they felt no shame.
genesis 2:25

22. the oneness factor

23. the oneness factor
Fusion:
the uniting or joining together
of two or more entities.
dictionary.com

24. the oneness factor
1+1=1

25. the oneness factor
You may say, quot;I am allowed to do anything.quot; But I
reply, quot;Not everything is good for you.quot; And even
though quot;I am allowed to do anything,quot; I must not
become a slave to anything.
i corinthians 6:12

26. the oneness factor
You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the
stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God
will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say
that our bodies were made for sexual immorality.
i corinthians 6:13

27. the oneness factor
But you can’t say that our bodies were made for
sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord,
and the Lord cares about our bodies.
i corinthians 6:13

28. the oneness factor
As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and
mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are
united into one.” This is a great mystery, but it is an
illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
ephesians 5:31,32

29. the oneness factor
And God will raise us from the dead by his power,
just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
i corinthians 6:14

30. the oneness factor
Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually
parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is
part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
16 And don’t i corinthians man joins himself
you realize that if a 6:15
to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For
the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”

31. the oneness factor
And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to
a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the
Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”
i corinthians 6:16

32. the oneness factor
“The union of two people involves more than
physical contact. It is also a union of
personalities which, however transient, alters
both of them.”
David Lowery
Paul quotes Genesis 2:24 not to affirm that a
man and a prostitute are married but to indicate
the gravity of the sin.”

33. the oneness factor
“Paul quotes Genesis 2:24 not to affirm that a
man and a prostitute are married but to indicate
the gravity of the sin.”
David Lowery

34. the oneness factor
“A Christian’s union with Christ likewise affects both
him and the Savior, and one cannot act without
affecting the other.”
David Lowery

35. the oneness factor
quot;The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman,
there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental
relation is set up between them which must be
eternally enjoyed or eternally endured.quot;
c.s. Lewis

36. the oneness factor
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars,
whose consciences have been seared as with a
hot iron.
I timothy 4:2

37. warning: cheesy rhyming ahead!

38. the funness factor

39. the funness factor
How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly
maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the
work of a skilled craftsman.
Your navelsong of songs 7:1 filled with
is as delicious as a goblet
wine. Your belly is lovely, like a heap of wheat set
about with lilies. 3 Your breasts are like twin fawns
of a gazelle.

40. the funness factor
Your navel is as delicious as a goblet filled with
wine. Your belly is lovely, like a heap of wheat set
about with lilies. Your breasts are like twin fawns
of a gazelle.
song of songs 7:2,3

41. the funness factor
Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower.
Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is as fine as
the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.
song of songs 7:4

42. the funness factor
Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the
sheen of your hair radiates royalty. The king is held
captive by its tresses. Oh, how beautiful you are!
How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
song of songs 7:5,6

43. the funness factor
You are slender like a palm tree, and your
breasts are like its clusters of fruit. I said,
“I will climb the palm tree and take hold of
its fruit.”
song of songs 7:7,8

44. the funness factor
May your breasts be like grape clusters, and
the fragrance of your breath like apples. May
your kisses be as exciting as the best wine,
flowing gently over lips and teeth.
song of songs 7:8,9

45. the funness factor
But the person who is joined to the Lord is one
spirit with him. Run from sexual sin! No other sin
so clearly affects the body as this one does. For
sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
19 Don’t you corinthians body is the temple
I realize that your 6:17,18
of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given
to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20
for God bought you with a high price. So you must
honor God with your body.

46. the funness factor
Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of
the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to
you by God? You do not belong to yourself,
I corinthians 6:19
for God bought you with a high price. So you must
honor God with your body.

47. the funness factor
for God bought you with a high price. So you must
honor God with your body.
I corinthians 6:20

48. the funness factor
But among you there must not be even a hint of
sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or
of greed, because these are improper for God's
holy people.
ephesians 5:3

49. do i trust god?