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Sex at First Sight: Understanding the Modern Hookup Culture
Автор: Richard E. Simmons III
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This book explains how the hookup has come into being among college students. It ends by examining God’s design for sexuality. It is written for those in or soon to enter college, and their parents.
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Sex at First Sight: Understanding the Modern Hookup Culture
Автор: Richard E. Simmons III
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This book explains how the hookup has come into being among college students. It ends by examining God’s design for sexuality. It is written for those in or soon to enter college, and their parents.
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Richard Simmons III has revealed the most understood and least discussed part of the culture of unrestrained sexuality and the hookup culture: sexual liberty, so praised and promoted in the culture, is purchased at the cost of dignity, health, and intimacy. Those who have indulged in the culture are fighting many more sexual diseases than before, feel used and guilty for using others, struggle to develop relationships, and are feeling lonelier than ever.Though Simmons presents the message from a Christian worldview, he cites many scholars, former proponents of the open sexuality movement, and other non-Christian experts who admit the truth of God's moral regulations of sexuality despite their reluctance to follow Him. There are cautionary tales from college campuses and the therapists couch. Even those who encouraged the so-called sexual revolution have come to see that it did not grant freedom but became a prison. Feminists are seeing that the sexual revolution, far from freeing women, has made them more objectified and considered only for what they can do to please another, not for who they are.Yet Simmons also presents the hope of escaping this culture, returning the dignity and peace of a virtuous life. He urges us to consider how God did not make sex dirty, as the critics claimed, but God made sex. It was a gift for man that, like other gifts, man has made an idol to his detriment. The Bible praises the sexual relationship in marriage as honorable and the pleasurable "knowing" of one's spouse in a special, secret, and sacred way. The Bible also reveals the destructive consequences of an individual and society of sexual relations outside of that context.I HIGHLY recommend this book. I've worked with so many young people for decades and heard the stories echoed in this book and have seen the impact, decades later, of people who followed this lifestyle when younger, whether they were people of faith or not. Everything in life has consequences whether felt immediately or in the far future. Don't dismiss this important fact.I woke up late one Saturday morning and read the entire book before lunch. It is not a long read but it is packed with much good information from secular and religious writers, therapists, psychologists, and people living in and recovering from this unfortunate social experiment. If you work with young people, or have children, read this book.If you are a high school, college student, or older and are struggling with the emptiness, confusion, and loneliness that this life has brought PLEASE read this book. He will not preach at you; he will enlighten you gently and lovingly and show you the lies and ignorance that created this environment that is pressuring you and show you a great way of escape to find forgiveness, fulfillment, and true intimacy in a real relationship.