LIBERTINISM AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL IMPURITY
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.... God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie.... For this reason God gave them up to vile passions.... committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due (Romans 1:18, 24 - 27).
THE 60s SEXUAL "REVOLUTION"
The results of the 60s sexual revolution have not been the promised blessings of happiness and sexual fulfillment, but rather a vast increase in sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, massive abortion and children being born to unwed mothers.
Statistics indicating the degree of such problems are staggering.
Illegitimacy is the single most important problem of our time.
Various sources estimate that two of every three black children in the United States are now born out of wedlock, up from one in every four or five in the early 1960s.
Thirty percent of total live births are illegitimate, 70 percent in the black population, 80 percent in some inner-cities. One million illegitimate children are arriving every year.
The increase in births to unwed mothers, along with a huge increase in the breakup of families through divorce, has produced a massive increase in children being raised in single-parent families. The statistics regarding such children are not encouraging.
Children raised without the support of two parents are more likely to use drugs, drop out of school or become unmarried parents themselves.
Regardless of the age of the mother, research indicates that out-of-wedlock births are related to such things as welfare dependency, substance use, crime, poverty, chronic unemployment, and excessive high school dropout rates.... Being born into a single-parent household places a child at much greater risk of encountering these negative experiences.
In addition to the economic impact, sexually transmitted diseases have a high human cost in terms of pain, suffering and grief.
Health Watch
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
The Facts about Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
An estimated 15 million new STD infections occur among Americans aged 15 and older each year. One fourth of these new infections occur in teens, and two-thirds occur in individuals less than 25 years of age.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is considered the leading cause of cervical cancer. - est. 5.5 million new infections per year.
Trichomoniasis, a parasitic infection caused by the Trichomonas vaginalis. Trichomoniasis infection has been linked to pelvic inflammatory disease, precancerous cervical changes, and premature delivery in women, and may also facilitate the spread of HIV - 5 million
Chlamydia - 3 million
genital herpes - 1 million
gonorrhea - 650,000, can double the risk of bladder cancer in men.
syphilis - 70,000
sexually transmitted hepatitis B - 77,000
HIV - 20,000
The total number of Americans with a continuing infection (prevalence) is much higher than the number of newly infected per year (incidence) because some of the most common STDs are incurable.
An estimated 45 million Americans older than 14 years of age suffer from genital herpes (one in five).
20 million from HPV (one in ten).
1/2 million have HIV
1/2 million have sexually transmitted hepatitis B
SAFE SEX!!!
Condoms only reduce the risk of infection. They do not "protect" 100% of the time from any STD.
Condoms do not prevent the transmission of STDs from sores or lesions outside the areas covered by condoms. There is no evidence of any risk reduction for sexual transmission of HPV infection even with 100% condom use. There is some evidence that condom use "might afford some reduction in risk of HPV associated disease including genital warts in men and cervical neoplasia in women." Neoplasia means cervical pre-cancer or cervical cancer. Current evidence does not show that trichomonas vaginalis sexual transmission is reduced even with 100% condom use.
Current evidence for syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and herpes shows that even with perfect condom use, there remains at least a 50% relative risk of infection.
HIV sexual transmission is reduced by approximately 85% with 100% condom use, leaving approximately 15% relative risk.
Inconsistent condom use affords significantly less risk reduction. For the more than twenty other STDs, not enough data exists to say whether or not condoms offer any risk reduction from sexual transmission.
Among adults, the highest level of condom use reported is in individuals involved in a monogamous relationship in which one partner is infected with HIV. Even in these couples, only 48 to 56 percent have reported using condoms consistently for a significant period of time.
Even if they are used 100% of the time, condoms slip or break on average 1.6% to 3.6% of the time, exposing sexual partners to STD infections.
Our society and our children are suffering the consequences of accepting false principles based on specious reasoning and flawed "scientific" evidence.
The cost of the sexual revolution and of the abandonment, on the part of many, of sexual restraint has been very great.
I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.
2 Corinthians 12:21