Reuniting God with Sex: Teaching Teenage Girls the Value of their Bodies
Of all the issues we deal with at Trinity Teen Solutions (TTS), sexual promiscuity tops the list. Most of the teenage girls we counsel are victims of sexual abuse, a crime that tends to lend itself to a lifestyle of sexual deviance. None of this is their fault, but it’s only made worse by society and modern media.
Let’s take a look at some of the problems they face:
Pornography
Merely thirty years ago, one had to pay a visit to the local video store to purchase pornographic videos. Not so, today. Thanks to technology, porn is merely a mouse click away, and it’s often for free.
Pornography desensitizes the mind’s view of sex. It becomes a casual affair of pleasure, rather than an intimate act of love and (eventually) the creation of life. When this happens, you devalue the bond between yourself and your spouse, sacred in nature. You cheapen act which created your children, and you pave the path towards your family’s destruction.
Modern Media
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Not long ago, one needn’t worry about finding trash on the television set. Wholesome programs were the norm, as society wouldn’t have accepted anything less. To say times have changed would be an understatement.
Turn on the tube, and you’ll be amazed at what you see. While the list of suggestive television is too vast to list, it’s there. So-called “family programs” target the impressionable minds of adolescents with images of barely-dressed females, teen pregnancies, sex before marriage, and more.
Divorce
The divorce rate in America is roughly fifty percent, and while the circumstances leading to divorce vary, one can’t help but blame the social and cultural shifts for such a statistic. If the family unit is to survive, we must wake up to this reality.
While the parents sort out their “irreconcilable differences,” it is the children who suffer most. Many are forced to deal with child abuse or poverty, and some grow up to adopt a life of crime. Impaired social skills, psychiatric problems, and behavioral difficulties are also most commonly exhibited in children of divorced parents.
God and Sex
Society tends to separate God and sex – one is holy, the other is a sin. This couldn’t be further from the truth. If anything, society has made sex unholy. Within the bounds of a respectful, loving marriage, sex is a gift from God, and our patients come to realize this.
God imprinted His very image into our bodies – male and female. The one was made for the other, crafted by the Divine Artist. Once sex is seen in this light of truth, it’s impossible to regard it without the dignity it deserves.
As the Creator of life, God is referred to as “Father,” but He is both masculine and feminine. And when a man and woman come together in sexual intimacy, they (in a sense) recreate God in His wholeness. The ultimate result of sex (the creation of a family) mimics God’s creation of all humanity.
How Trinity Teen Solutions Can Help
Each person is unique and precious, and at TTS, our goal is to make each of our patients realize this truth. We utilize individual and group therapy to delve into each girls’ core issues, and we do so from a Christian standpoint.
Unraveling the damage done not only by sexual perpetrators, but also by today’s day and age, can be challenging, but nothing is impossible with God. Given the right tools and perspective on their bodies and sex, our girls graduate from the TTS program with more than enough self-respect to tackle this moral-less society.
If your daughter is struggling with the issues mentioned here, please feel free to contact us to see if we can help her get back on track.
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