ON THE NET - DEFENSE OF PEDOPHILES Newsweek, March 15, 2001

The Pedophile Liberation Front has a site on the web. It's purpose: defend the lifestyle of pedophiles—people who are sexually attracted to children.

TEENS SHOULD NOT HAVE SEX Reuters 2/1/99

The normally liberal American Academy of Pediatrics came to a startling conclusion in early February: that doctors ought to encourage sexual abstinence among teenagers because of the United States’ sky-high teen-pregnancy rate (the highest in the developed world). After reviewing 50 studies on the subject, they issued a statement that said: "[physicians should] encourage adolescents to postpone early coital activity and promote abstinence."

ABSTINENCE CREDITED Cheryl Wetzstein in The Washington Times 2/1/99

A review of national data indicates that teen birthrates have been falling because teens are abstaining from sex, not because they’re using more condoms, said the Consortium of State Physicians Research Councils. According to The Washington Times, "this conclusion ‘refutes’ efforts by federal agencies and advocacy groups to attribute the birthrate declines to contraceptive use… National data further show that more teens – especially boys – are abstaining from sex, said Dr. John Diggs of South Hadley, Massachusetts. Reps Tom Coburn and Ernest Istook… said the PRC research shows the federal government’s 50 million a year abstinence education program is good public policy."

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES Katherine G. Bond in Focus on the Family 9/98

Even when used consistently, condoms carry a 10% to 43% risk of HIV infection. They offer little to no protection against:

• Genital herpes: which is incurable
• Chlamydia: which can cause sterility
• Human papillomavirus: which causes most cervical cancers killing more woman than AIDS.

A CASE FOR ABSTINENCE off the Internet 1998

I was holding a notice from my 13 year old son’s school announcing a meeting to preview the new course in sexuality. Parents could examine the curriculum and take part in an actual lesson presented exactly as it would be given to the students.

When I arrived at school, I was surprised to discover only about a dozen parents were there. As we waited for the presentation, I thumbed through page after page of instructions in the prevention of pregnancy or disease.

I found abstinence mentioned only in passing. When the teacher arrived with the school nurse, she asked if there were any questions. I asked why abstinence did not play a noticeable part in the material. What happened next was shocking. There was a great deal of laughter, and someone suggested that if I thought abstinence had any merit, I should go back to burying my head in the sand.

The teacher and nurse said nothing as I drowned in embarrassment. My mind had gone blank, and I could think of nothing to say.

The teacher explained to me the job of the school was to teach "facts," and the home was responsible for moral teaching. I sat in silence for the next 20 minutes as the course was explained. The other parents seemed to give their unqualified support for the materials.

"Donuts, at the back," announced the teacher during the break. "I’d like you to put on the name tags we have prepared – they’re right by the donuts – and mingle with the other parents."

Everyone moved to back of the room. As I watched them affixing their name tags and shaking hands, I sat deep in thought. I was ashamed that I had not been able to convince them to include a serious discussion of abstinence in the materials. I uttered a silent prayer for guidance.

My thoughts were interrupted by the teacher’s hand on my shoulder. "Won’t you go and join the others, Mr. Layton?" The nurse smiled sweetly at me. "The donuts are good." "Thank you, no," I replied. "Well, then, how about a name tag?" I’m sure the others would like to meet you." "Somehow I doubt that," I replied. "Won’t you please join them?" she coaxed.

Then I heard a still, small voice whisper, "Don’t go." The instruction was unmistakable. "Don’t go!" "I’ll just wait here," I said.

When the class was called back to order, the teacher looked around the long table and thanked everyone for putting on name tags. She ignored me. Then she said, "Now we’re going to give you the same lesson we’ll be giving your children. Everyone please peel off your name tags."
I watched in silence as the name tags came off. "Now, then, on the back of one of the tags, I drew a tiny flower. Who has it, please?"

The gentleman across from me held it up. "Here it is!"

"All right," she said. "The flower represents disease. Do you recall with whom you shook hands?"

He pointed to a couple of people. "Very good," she replied. "The handshake in this case represents intimacy. So the two people you had contact with now have the disease." There was laughter and joking among the parents. The teacher continued, "And whom did the two of you shake hands with?"

The point was well taken, and she explained how this lesson would show students how quickly disease is spread.

"Since we all shook hands, we all have the disease." It was then that I heard the still, small voice again. "Speak now," it said "but be humble." I noted wryly the latter admonition, then rose from my chair. I apologized for any upset I might have caused earlier, congratulated the teacher on an excellent lesson that would impress the youth, and then concluded by saying I had only one small point I wished to make.

"Not all of us were infected," I said. "One of us… abstained."

REMOVE THE BIFOCALS - Nick Vogelzang, Seattle Washington

I was visiting an elderly couple who told me they had a single room vacation cabin they had been sharing with another couple for years.

Goading them a bit I asked, "A single-room cabin with two couples? How did that work?"

"Well, Pastor," the man replied, "we used to put a curtain across the middle, but now we just take off our bifocals."

EVOLUTIONARY SEX by Allison Block r.digest 11/97 p. 188

While sex after 35 may not feel as fiery as it did at 25, maturity offers other benefits. Evolutionary biology helps explain why men and women in their 20s are often sexually incompatible: he wants novelty without commitment, while she craves devotion and stability. "For men, that means having sex with as many women as possible to ensure the survival of the species," says Seifer (past president of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists in Mt. Vernon, Iowa) "For women, it means selecting the strongest, healthiest mate and keeping him around to protect the offspring in the critical yeas." It isn't until after 30, when Darwinian breeding curve is on the downswing, that this libidinal gender gap begins to narrow."

THE FALSE FOUNDATIONS IN THE KINSEY REPORT by Rachel Wildavsky in R.Digest 4/97 p. 59 ff.

Almost 50 years ago, Alfred Kinsey, a quiet Midwestern Zoology professor, published the 1st of 2 volumes that would shake American culture to its foundations. His 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male - like its 1953 sequel, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female - claimed to report the findings of a massive survey of American sexual behavior.

And what findings they were! In dry, scientific language, Kinsey declared that many traditionally forbidden sexual activities were commonplace: About 1/2 of all married men and one in 4 married women had had extramarital sex; 69% of men had been with prostitutes; 10 % of men had been homosexual for at 3 years; 40 to 50% of boys raised on farms had had sexual contact with animals.

What's more, Kinsey claimed many of these practices could be beneficial. Premarital sex helped women "adjust" to marriage. Boys may develop "affectional relations" with their animal sexual partners.

The public - then sexually conservative by today's standards - might not have accepted such information from just anyone. But Kinsey was a scientist and, impressed by the wonders of modern technology, Americans had grown to respect science deeply. And because Kinsey's was a scientific study, says historian John D'Emilio of the University of N. Carolina at Greensboro, "The press had permission to write about the subject in a way it wouldn't have before."

American culture shifted under the impact. The old sexual rules, supposedly hypocritical, began weakening. "If you discover that the desires you've been repressing are being acted out by millions," says historian Paul Robinson of Stanford University, "you are less inclined to repress them." Newsweek characterized that effect as "If it's OK with Kinsey, it's OK with me."

Today, in good measure because of Alfred Kinsey, we live in a different world. But were the things he said true?

In December 1995, nearly 50 years after Kinsey's 1st report, the Indiana institute that Kinsey founded to carry on his work acknowledged that certain data had been misrepresented. Kinsey had written that 9 observers - some technically trained" - had found that children as young as 5 months were capable of multiple orgasm and, when "uninhibited," were "aggressive in seeking" sex. The truth, the Kinsey Institute now said, was that those data were supplied by a single observer - a pedophile who claimed to have sex with 317 boys....

In fact, many of Kinsey' findings were based on flawed methods. And some are outright false. Nevertheless, prominent scholars who know this continue to promote Kinsey's work....

When Kinsey took a sexual history, he was far more likely to "find" sexual activity than were his own colleagues - reporting 2 to 3 times as much premarital intercourse and 4 times as much homosexuality as they did. Says historian James Reed of Rutgers University, "Kinsey was a man who very much wanted to find sexual activity."

Even more troubling was Kinsey's collection of child pornography. According to a 1981 letter from Kinsey colleague Paul Gebhard to researcher Judith Reisman, Kinsey obtained photos and film of children engaged in sexual acts from adults who had had sex with them. Kinsey never notified law enforcement of the existence of any of these pedophiles.

Kinsey claimed to be a neutral scientist who had no agenda. He wrote in his 1st volume that he aimed for "scientific fact completely divorced from questions of moral value and social custom." His claim was false. "Kinsey had views, and they're in his books," says sociologist John Gagnon, a former president of the International Academy of Sex Research, who joined the institute after its founder's death in 1956. Kinsey believed that sex was a simple, biological reaction to stimuli with no moral, spiritual or psychological dimension. Only "inhibitions" imposed by society, he claimed prevented everyone from enjoying equally a variety of "outlets."

"It is not so difficult," Kinsey wrote in his 2nd report, "to explain why a human animal does a particular thing sexually. It is more difficult to explain why each and every individual is not involved in every type of sexual activity." In his declared opinion, there was no moral difference between one sexual outlet and any other.

It is not surprising, then, that the Kinsey Reports contain graphic description of young children under prolonged sexual stimulation by a pedophile including the children's screams and struggles to get away. Yet Kinsey concluded that the children "derive definite pleasure from the situation."

The survey respondents on whom Kinsey based his conclusions were grossly unrepresentative of the general population. About 75% of his male respondents volunteered to take part, for instance. Using Kinsey's data, psychologist Lewis M. Terman of Stanford University reported that such volunteers are anywhere from 2 to 4 times more active sexually than nonvolunteers.

Kinsey's sample also included prison inmates. Pomeroy wrote that by 1946, the team had taken sexual histories from 1400 convicted sex offenders. Kinsey never revealed how many he included in his total sample of 5300 males; he did acknowledge that his 1st volume included "several thousand" male prostitutes.

Example of the world's kind of thinking - NY Post columnist Ray Kerrison observed: (12/13/91) "Magic Johnson, the basketball star who stunned the world 5 weeks ago with the disclosure he had ... the HIV virus, looked into the FACE TO FACE WITH CONNIE CHUNG TV camera & said: 'I lived the bachelor's life & I'm paying for it.'

This was a unique moment in the long & tragic history of the AIDS epidemic. It was the 1st time a high profile person had ever conceded in a public forum that his own behavior was responsible for getting the disease.

Johnson said 'I agree with those who say my life-style was morally wrong, I'm not trying to deny it. I'm trying to battle for my life and the only thing I can ask for is forgiveness... It was my fault. Morally, I was wrong sleeping with a lot of women. I wish it hadn't happened, but it did. All I can do is ask God's forgiveness and leave it in His hands. All I can do is pray a lot.'

It is no coincidence that the media all but blacked out the Chung interview with Magic. The media slavishly follows the AIDS party line, drawn up by radical homosexuals. Magic's message was heresy to them so it will not be long before ACT UP goes after him. Indeed, the campaign already has begun."

LARRY FLYNT'S DAUGHTER SPEAKS UP AFA Journal 3/97 p. 4

Circle K is the largest chain of convenience stores in the U.S. that sells pornography, and now Tonya Flynt-Vega, the daughter of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, has written a letter to Circle K urging the company to discontinue the practice.

A movie glamorizing her father's career, The People vs. Larry Flynt has won critical acclaim and portrays Larry Flynt as a hero fighting to protect the 1st Amendment. But Flynt-Vega said her father is no hero. In a letter to Thomas D. O'Malley, the Chairman of the Tosco Corporation, which owns Circle K, she said her father's career as the nation's most controversial producer of pornography led to a childhood filled with suffering. She also alleges that her father sexually abused her when she was a child.

"I witnessed my father becoming desensitized by pornography which led him to sexually abusing me," Flynt-Vega said. "My father used pornography to break down my inhibitions and the abuse I endured gave me a twisted sense of what a father's love and what true love meant."

She closed the letter by mentioning her own daughter. "If I can do anything to protect her from the dangerous world that we are living in and the horrors that pornography has brought into my life, I will... do it."

GETTING REAL ABOUT TEEN PREGNANCY R.Digest 9/96 p. 50ff

According to Child Trends, a Washington, D.C., research organization, more than 1/2 of teenage mothers are not residing with their child's father by the time that child reaches grade school. More than 1/4 have never lived with the father. Nor will the father offer much help: according to the Congressional Budget Office, only 20% of never married mothers receive formal child support.

By contrast, 4 out of 5 women who wait until age 24 to give birth are still residing with the child's father when the child reaches grade school - and 2 out o 3 of those children have never lived in poverty.

Fewer than 1/w the teens who give birth out of wedlock marry within the next few years. Those who do marry are twice as likely to divorce in 5 years as women who marry in their 20s.

And a father is not easily replaced. A growing number of studies suggest that fatherless children are more likely to take drugs, drop out of school, turn to crime and become teen parents themselves.

According to the Alan Guttermacher Institute, only 70% of women who give birth as teen agers finish high school, compared to more than 90% of women who postpone childbirth. The teen age mother's chance of attaining any higher education is very slim. With little schooling and the extra responsibilities of being a parent, life is a downward spiral. By the time her child reaches grade school, a young mother is 2.5 times less likely to have her own home and 50% less likely to have savings than mothers who started families after they were 24.

ABSTINENCE WORKS Washington Times Weekly Edition, 1/22-28/96

An independent study of a 10 year old abstinence program has demonstrated the validity of the approach, as its success contrasted sharply with the regular public school sex-ed program which also advocated condom use.

In the first independent study of the Best Friends abstinence program, founded in 1986 by Elayne Bennett, a group of participants in Washington, D.C., showed less sexual involvement and fewer instances of pregnancy than the regular participants in the District's sex education program. David R. Rowberry conducted the study for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Colorado.

During Rowberry's yearlong study, in which 88 girls, ages 12 to 18, participated, he found that only 9 had engaged in sexual intercourse during that 12 month period.

In contrast, a 1993 survey of 900 girls in the district, in the same age group, found 72% had had sexual intercourse, with 200 becoming pregnant. Washington D.C., has the nation's highest rate of unwed teen births, according to the 1995 Kids Count survey.

A FATHER'S TEACHING OF BIRDS AND BEES Bits and Pieces 3/2/95 4/27/95 p. 24

Donald Ogden Stewart, the writer, had a son away at prep school. When the boy reached the age of 14, Stewart wrote him the following letter: "Dear Son, now that you have reached the magic age of 14, the time has come to tell you about the bees and flowers. There is male and female bee, although I haven't the slightest idea which is which. As for the flowers - we get ours from Plaza Florists, Inc. Well, that takes care of that. Write soon. Affectionately, Father."

CONTRACEPTIVES NOT REDUCING PREGNANCIES AFA Journal Nov/Dec 95

According to a University of Philadelphia study, "spending more money on contraceptive clinics does not reduce pregnancies among unmarried teens in urban areas (The Family in America, New Research 10/95)

EPISCOPAL BISHOP ON SEX In Time Magazine, 1988

The Episcopal Church has a sex problem. First came a controversial 112-page booklet, titled "Sexuality: A Divine Gift", that purports to instruct young Episcopalians on the do's and don'ts of intimate relationships. Published last year by the church education agency, it openly questions the old rules of "sexual abstinence or strict heterosexual monogamy" and recommends a steamy Unitarian sex curriculum as a guide. Such goings-on have created a fire storm of protest among conservatives who vow to get the booklet rejected at next month's Episcopal convention. By then, however, the "Divine Gift" dustup may be overshadowed by an even testier debate involving Newark's Bishop John Shelly Spong.

Spong's forthcoming book, "Living in Sin?" (Harper & Row; $15.95), is probably the most radical pronouncement on sex ever issued by a bishop. An advocate of women bishops, Spong interprets traditional morality as the product of a patriarchal bias. "Sex outside of marriage can be holy and life-giving under some circumstances," he writes. Spong argues that most people are likely to break the traditional rules anyway, what with the advent of birth control and modern life-styles. Since the church wants to counteract promiscuity, he reasons, it should encourage married people to at least establish committed sexual relationships, while retaining lifelong monogamy as the "ideal."

On homosexual behavior, Spong spurns the biblical literalism of his youth, explaining that St. Paul (who wrote of "dishonorable passions") did not realize that the inclination is inborn. Spong declares that the church should repent of past "ignorance and prejudice" and perform ritual blessings for same-sex couples. For young heterosexuals, the bishop advocates what he terms "betrothal," in which the church would recognize sexual relationships that are "committed and public, but not legal." In betrothals, the birth of children would "not be appropriate." He proposes similar arrangements for older singles.

Raised in Charlotte, N.C., Spong, who turns 57 next week, early opted for a career in the clergy. After completing seminary studies in Virginia, he served in several Southern parishes and began drawling his way to the top. Spong privately began to rethink sexual morality when a parishioner who did not want to divorce his paralyzed wife decided to take up with a widow. "For the first time," he recalled in an interview, "I faced the fact that it might be more loving and life-giving to have a relationship outside marriage than to be moralistic. It seemed to me nobody was hurt."

Spong's election as a bishop in 1976 provoked a brief doctrinal ruckus. A group of 70 conservatives contended that he was unfit for the post because he had written, among other things, "The simplistic claim that Jesus is God is nowhere made in the biblical story. Nowhere!" Since he joined the hierarchy, Spong has continued to be a china breaker in the tradition of the rate bishop James A. Pike, the 1960s scourge of Episcopal tradition. Unlike Pike, who underwent a heresy trial and eventually resigned as a bishop,

Spong has got little hierarchical heat. He has, however, prompted the creation of Episcopalians United, a 20,000-strong organization of priests and lay people dedicated to maintaining older Episcopal teachings. Complains an activist, the Rev. Kendall Harmon of Sumter, S.C.: "We have reached a point where the official positions of the Episcopal Church have almost no practical value." But the church's Presiding Bishop, Edmond Browning, insists, "There is room to ask questions within the context of our faith, and there is room for diversity of opinion."

Living under the Lordship of Jesus Christ must make a difference in the everyday decision of life. We must be willing to pay the price of discipleship.

A few years ago, Jack Eckerd, founder of the Eckerd drugstore chain, committed his life to Christ. Shortly afterward as he walked through one of his stores, he noticed the magazine racks with their glossy copies of "Playboy" and "Penthouse". Although Eckerd was retired from active management, he called the president of the company and urged him to get rid of those pornographic magazines. The president protested because substantial profits were gained from their sales. Being the largest stockholder, Eckerd himself stood to lose a lot of money by such a decision. But he remained firm in his objection, and he prevailed. The offensive magazines were removed from all 1700 drugstores. When he was asked what motivated him to take this action, Eckerd replied, "God wouldn't let me off the hook!"

FOUR FACTOR SYNDROME OF SEXUAL ILLNESS - AFA Journal October 93 p. 16

An essay by Dr. Victor B. Cline confirms the devastating effects of pornography on adults and children and the major role of pornography in violent sex crimes. The essay is distributed by Morality in Media.

Cline a clinical psychologist who has treated over 300 sex addicts, sex offenders and other individuals (96% male), identifies a 4 factor syndrome common to those with sexual illness.

1. Addiction - the porn consumer gets hooked. The material provides a very powerful sexual stimulant and aphrodisiac effect. Cline says the addict cannot throw off the powerful compulsion despite the fact that it often leads to divorce, loss of family and problems with the law.« He writes, "One of my patients was so deeply addicted that he could not stay away from pornography for 90 days, even for $1000." Cline literally made this proposal to a patient. Despite the patient's resolve, he could only stay away for 87 days. On a second try the patient could only abstain for 14 days.

2. Escalation - With the passage of time, porn addicts require more explicit, more deviant and kinkier kinds of sexual material. Being married or being in a relationship with a willing sexual partner does not solve the problem. They often preferred the pornographic sexual imagery to sexual intercourse itself.

Cline says this behavior nearly always diminishes their capacity to love, and to express affection to their marital partner.

3. Desensitization - Material originally perceived as shocking and repulsive becomes acceptable and commonplace no matter how deviant.

4. Acting Out Sexually - Repeated exposure to an escalating level of pornography leads to the acting out phase. This acting out may include compulsive promiscuity, incest, exhibitionism, group sex, voyeurism, frequenting massage parlors, having sex with minor children, rape and inflicting pain on themselves or a partner during sex.

He says addicts find themselves locked into behaviors they are unable to change or reverse - no matter what the negative consequences in their lives. The essay makes a strong connection between pornography and violent crimes. Cline quotes directly from criminals whose porn habit led to rape and murder.

Cline says although some get hooked immediately and others take 5 to 10 years, the addiction "almost never disappears on its own or reverses its course unless there is some therapeutic intervention.

SEXUAL SIN OF SAMSON WITH DELILAH - AFA Journal '93 p. 17

(Judges 14-16) Samson had roving eyes. He loved to look. And finally his eyes rested upon a woman who eventually became his undoing. Delilah! Today, we associate the mere mention of the name not only with beauty, but also the treachery. Do you have roving eyes? And did you know that you can end up like Samson

Delilah was out to trap Samson. First she used her body, then her brains. Samson was captivated by her beauty and lust. Day by day (vs. 16), he lost control until finally, he lost all of his strength. He realized too late that he could not set himself free. (vs. 20-21).

Many men are like that when it comes to pornography. Roving eyes aren't satisfied and they must have more and more. They love to look. Like Samson, they have slowly lost their strength to fight temptation. They're at the point where magazines are not enough. They must have more. Like Samson, they are in bondage and cannot set themselves free from the lifestyle of lust that has consumed and laughs at them, just as the Philistines laughed at Samson.

But God didn't give up on Samson. God rescued him and did a mighty work through him. And Jesus Christ can do that for you, a modern day man just like Samson, who got himself into trouble due to his roving eyes. God can deliver you from any sin, no matter how long you've been trapped in it. Pornography does not have to have the final say in your life.

I WOULDN'T TRUST MYSELF SE Leadership Conference 3/94

A young man inquired of a minister when he would be mature enough to withstand temptations of the flesh. The preacher replied "I wouldn't trust myself until I had been dead 3 days."

CASUAL SEX? SE Leadership Conference 3/94

A preacher got on an elevator in the hotel in which he was staying, and as he touched the button of his floor, a couple of very attractive women got on with him.

"What floor do you need?" he asked trying to be helpful.

Leaning towards him, one of the girls replied, "I see you're getting off at the 5th floor - that would be just fine with us."

Flattered, the preacher began to consider just what he was being offered. He didn't think of ministry, or of his church, or his family or his wife. All that seemed to fill his mind was a scripture: "Don't be deceived, a man reaps what he sows..."

Coming to his floor, before he stepped out of the elevator, he turned to the girls and said "I'm sorry, I have a very busy evening ahead of me."

* If you don't intend to go into the house... get off the porch.

* Don't throw your ministry (etc.) down the tube for a muscle spasm.

YOU WERE WORTH THE WAIT SE Leadership Conference 3/94

Bob Russell of the SE Christian Church once did a wedding for a nationally known Christian song writer and her fiancée. Part of the wedding included a song she had written especially for their ceremony that was to be played softly in the background in one part of the service. As the couple faced each other, her voice lilted softly "You were worth the wait," and one of the lines rejoiced "I was glad you kept yourself for me, too." Purity for your partner is worth the wait.

I went into all the things we read in the press about the sex, money and pride (found in the fall of prominent tele-evangelists). Those are the three areas I think Satan attacks God's servants on. I was told that many years ago by an old clergyman, and I never forgot it. And I learned from that moment on that I would be tempted in those areas. So I never rode in a car with a woman alone. I never have eaten a meal with my secretary alone or ridden in a car with her alone. If we sit in here and I dictate something to her, the door is open.

PROMISCUITY EARLIER IN WHITE GIRLS - AFA Journal 6/90 p. 10

An early report from a government survey says that teen girls are having sex at an earlier age. The '88 National Center for Health Statistics survey of 8450 young women ages 15-19 shows 54% had had intercourse at least once in 1988 vs. 47% in a 1982 survey. Officials said the increase was due mainly to change in the behavior of white women, whereas sexual behavior among young black women changed little. "USA Today" 2/6/90

SAFE SEX? Irving Kristol - Wall St. Journal quoted in R.Digest 1/93 p. 156

Is it any wonder that the HIV virus is spreading among teenagers? Among 10th graders in Washington D.C., 2/3's of boys and 1/4th of girls report having recently had 4 or more sex partners. These youngsters are a recruiting pool for our AIDS population. Confronted with the grim shadow of AIDS, educators can think only of distributing condoms and appealing for "Safe sex." But promiscuity, especially among the young, will always overwhelm "safe sex." Men and women who are casual about sex are not likely to be scrupulous about the details.

SEX FOR TEENS NOT WRONG? Time, May 24, 1993 p. 62

Some social scientists argue that there is nothing wrong with increased sexual expression among teens. "Feeling, thinking and being sexual is an endemic part of being a teenager," says UCLA psychologist Paul Abramson. "Let's say a couple has paired off, wants to be monogamous and uses condoms. I'd say that's a legitimate part of their sexual expression as a couple in the '90s."

PEER PRESSURE FOR GIRLS AND SEX Time, May 24, 1993 p. 62

. Sandra 17, in Des Moines, Iowa, pregnant and due in November, says she has slept with 33 boys. She keeps count and doesn't think her behavior is all that unusual. "A lot of girls do the same. They think if they don't have sex with a person, that person won't want to talk to them anymore."

OFFERING AN APPLE r.digest October 1974

While the late Pope John XXII was still the Apostolic Nuncio to France, he found himself seated at a banquet next to an elegant dinner partner who was wearing a gown of perilously low de' colletage. Instead of being censorious or embarrassed or pretending to be unaware of the costume, when dessert was served, the prelate offered her an apple. She was a little surprised, but he explained with a smile, "Please do take it, Madame, it was only after Eve ate the apple that she became aware of how little she had on."

COHABITATION STATS r.digest February 1994

There's a good chance that a couple living together will never tie the knot. Estimates from a number of experts are that 40 to 50 percent of cohabitants never marry each other. One 1985 Columbia University study found that only 19 percent of men who lived with their girlfriends eventually went down the aisle with them.

When 139 cohabitants were asked in a 1973 study why they lived with somebody, most women said it was the first step toward marriage. For men, the most common motive was sex. One man asked, asked why he was living with his girlfriend replied "Sex-when you want it, where you want it.

Many young couples today insist that living together is a good idea, the best way to see if they are compatible-and hence the best way to prevent divorce. The truth? One study found that people who live together before marriage are about 33 percent more likely to split than those who don't. Another study showed that the longer they live together before marriage, the more likely they themselves thought the chance of divorce. Moreover, the study says cohabitants have a lower reported quality of marriage and a lower commitment to it.

MAKING FUN OF JOCELYN - GOOD THOUGHT LIFELINE June 94 Daniel P. Erb

This letter (Taken from July Issue of Focus on the Family) was sent to U. S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after she announced her recent stand against smoking:

Dear Dr. Elders:

There us no sense using scare tactics to persuade kids not to smoke. Young people are going to smoke no matter what we do, so we might as well accept that fact. We would do better off instructing all our young people that smoking is okay as long as they use a filter. We should begin by holding classes that teach young people the proper way to fit a cigarette with a filter. We could use pencils as models and have all students practice placing a filter on a pencil.

I'm sure we'll get flack from parents who don't want their kids to smoke under any circumstances, whether they use a filter or not. We can circumvent these troublemakers by instructing all health clinics to issue filtered cigarettes to any student who asks for them--regardless if they have permission from their parents.

Since kids are starting to smoke at earlier and earlier ages, we should start this educational process in kindergarten so we make sure every child has the proper information to experience this whenever he or she desires to do so. We might as well teach them how to smoke in the safest way possible.

STUDIES ABOUT NUDE MAGAZINES SHOW THAT... UNCLE JOHN'S 6TH BATHROOM READER

If you've been looking at nudes depicted in Playboy, Playgirl, or Penthouse: After perusing the pictures, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, you are likely to rate your own mate as less attractive sexually than you did a while before you looked, and report yourself less in love with him or her.

STAMP OUT VIRGINITY From Angola Christian Newsletter, James D. Saunders

Back in the 1970's, Paul Anderson and Lauren Young worked with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. On spring break they would go down to Florida and hang out on the beaches. At the time, Paul Anderson was the strongest man in the world. Guide Post magazine tells the story of one of their encounters on the beach. Lauren and Paul were standing there and a teenager came walking past with a t-shirt that said "help stamp out virginity." So Lauren Young went over to the guy and said, "hey, that's a nice shirt you've got there." And the young man sized him up as a Christian and said, "yeah, and I bet you don't like it do you?" Lauren said, "Oh you've got me all wrong. You see, I think that's a great slogan; in fact I think it's such a great motto that here's what I would encourage you to do: take that t-shirt and in a few years when you get married, put it in a trunk in your house and just keep it. In about twenty years, when somebody comes calling and they start to take your daughter out on her first date, here what I think you should do: tell them to wait at the door for a minute and you rush upstairs and you pull out that old t-shirt and bring it down. Hand it to them and say 'this was always my motto when I was your age. I'd like for it to be your motto too; have a great night.'"

The guy looked at Young, turned his head and walked away. Just before he got out of sight, the teenager peeled off his t-shirt and tossed it in the trash can.

I still have an article in my files from Time magazine, dated December 13, 1971, in which four mainline churches announced their new perspective on sex outside of marriage. They concluded after careful analysis that the commandment "Thou shalt not" really meant "maybe," and that sex was intended to be enjoyed by any two lovers of either sex who could conjure up some kind of "meaningful relationship." At last, people had been "liberated" from their sexual "bondage." Millions celebrated between the sheets.

Now, twenty years later, we're reeling under an epidemic of thirty-eight sexually transmitted diseases, with devastating new micro-organisms showing up every few years. Cervical cancer in young women has soared to unprecedented rates. An AIDS epidemic literally threatens the entire human family and twenty million Americans are afflicted with genital herpes. They can expect to suffer from it for the rest of their lives. Obscene publications and films have become so offensive that uninitiated viewers often become nauseated when seeing them. Millions of girls are having babies before they're out of childhood. One and a half million abortions are occurring every year in the United States alone. And most importantly, the family has been deeply wounded -- and may never recover.

-- Intimacy In Marriage, by Dr. James Dobson, p. 30

HUGH HEFNER ON SEX -- Eternity Magazine, Hugh Hefner, Playboy Editor

Sex is a function of the body. A drive which man shares with animals. Like eating, drinking and sleeping. It's a physical demand that must be satisfied. If you don't satisfy it you will have all sorts of neurosis and repression psychosis. Sex is here to stay. Let's forget the prudery that make us hide from it. Throw away those inhibitions, find a girl who's like minded and let yourself go.