Permanent Relationships Essay, Research Paper

Sex should be reserved for personal relationaships

?14 year old pregnant mother diagnosed with the aids virus?, In our society today headlines like this one can be seen on a regular basis. Prematrital sex has become an expected and widely accepted practice world wide, it is not just being tolerated but is actually being encouraged, gone are the days when being a virgin was considered commonplace, we are now living in a time when being a virgin could cause you to be ridiculed and labeled a misfit. Premarital sex is the cause many problems in society today; teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases are just a few of the issues that will be discussed in this essay.

Sexually transmitted diseases can directly linked to premarital sex,

More and more we find that people are having sex so often with so many different people that it has totally lost its true purpose. Sex should be something shared between two married adults that are permanently joined together by marriage. Sex has many repercussions one of which is pregnancy. Most pregnancies that occur outside of wedlock are unwanted. and couples end up with unwant There are 12 million new cases of STDs annually in the United States and 67% of these occur among persons under the age of 25.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 & Corinthians 7:1-2 states that ?Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price : therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God?s. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.?

According to the bible sex before marriage is regarded as a sin