Very good articleby Bruce Wydick that comes our way via The Dawn Patrol.
Here’s a sneak peek:
But the data show that many people today feel that consensual
sex between two people who care for each other is
a valid and harmless choice, regardless of whether the participants
are married.
Two significant flaws are present in this view. First, sex is
qualitatively different from other activities. It is not like working
alongside someone on a project. It is not like enjoying a
beer and a burger with someone. It is not like playing tennis.
Sex is a total physical giving of ourselves to another human
being. It is humans’ most vulnerable, private act.
Second, sex is how life itself is created. There is no other
act in which we engage with another person that can create
life. And this life reproduces the genes of the two people
involved. The two literally become one in the form of a third
person. Sex is like no other human activity.
By emphasizing sex as recreation—something enjoyable
that does not require any deeper commitment—our culture
has moved sex from the level of sacred act (which God
intended it to be) down to the level of tennis. Moreover,
by emphasizing mutual consent as a basis for legitimizing
premarital sex, our culture overlooks essential differences
between men and women, important asymmetries that bring
this “if it’s consensual it’s okay” view sharply into question.