Doctors, Joe McIlhaney and Freda McKissic Bush, explain what we now know about sex and the human brain in their book, Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children
From OneWoldNews:
...Males have their own neurochemical related to bonding: vasopressin. It floods the male brain during sexual intercourse, causing him to feel at least partially bonded to every woman with whom he's been intimate. If men begin a pattern of having sex with partner after partner, they risk not developing the ability to form long-term emotional attachment. As McIlhaney and Bush put it: "Their inability to bond after multiple liaisons is almost like tape that loses its stickiness after being applied and removed multiple times." ...
...Now let's add to that new information that neuroscience teaches us about the brain chemistry of sex and bonding some cold, hard facts about how effective birth control really is when it comes to teenagers. The authors of Hooked have compiled the following statistics from various sources:
- 20 percent of 12- to 18-year-olds using the Pill will become pregnant within six months
- 20 percent of teens under 18 using condoms will become pregnant within a year
- 50 percent of female teenagers who live with a boyfriend and use contraception will become pregnant within a year...
...For those of us unconvinced by moral or religious arguments, it's time to re-order our priorities. Now that we have science behind us, it's time for society to change its collective mind when it comes to sex, just as it did with smoking. Maybe in one generation, we can undergo a transformation when it comes to sex outside of marriage. Maybe TV shows and movies will stop implying that casual sex is no big deal. Maybe we'll begin to teach young people that waiting till marriage is best. Then the dopamine and the oxytocin and the vasopressin can do their jobs of helping to make two people one.
5 comments:
The whole sexual revolution thing has been a complete failure. Instead of liberating people it has enslaved them to their desires. Saving yourself for your future spouse certainly demonstrates freedom from lust and a sincere choice to make a complete gift of one's self to your spouse.
Well said, SH. There's nothing like not saving yourself for marriage to make you wish you had.
"Their inability to bond after multiple liaisons is almost like tape that loses its stickiness after being applied and removed multiple times."
I use actual scotchtape in my catechism class to make this very point.
thank you! i want to read the book.
"Saving yourself for your future spouse certainly demonstrates freedom from lust and a sincere choice to make a complete gift of one's self to your spouse."
Spot on, SH.
scotchtape visual. brilliant, KK. I'll have to use that in the many talks with the boys. (and maybe some adults in my Sunday school class?)
Pom Apple- You are welcome! I may have to add it to my already intimidating reading list.
"scotchtape visual"
What you do is take about a 4" piece & walk around the room, sticking it onto different kids' desks, each one representing another intimate encounter (I love you....no, I love you..no, this time for sure, no...) Once the tape won't stick, pick someone to marry & stick to forever, but of course the tape can't stick to the desk anymore.
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