First, because I was there. One of those young girls brainwashed into thinking sex was bad and how sinful it was to even think about masterbation (I’m a big sinner I guess!).

Secondly, because once I decided for myself that if G-dog created everything and sex is part of that everything then it can’t be bad (don’t even get me started on how most religions are man made and developed to supppress people especially women).

Once I broke free of that religious non-sense and focused on individual spirituality I realized the first relationship I was in was not healthy and broke free. I stayed for so long because I figured that since I had lost my virginity to this man and I had to stay in the relationship to avoid eternal doom. You know…basically marry him so I could stay pure.

I went on to enjoy a good handful of wonderful *ahem* sexual relationships and eventually met my wonderful, loving, giving, beautiful husband. Had I continued to be bound by the “purity balls” or purity bullshit I would be eternally miserable and no G-dog I believe in would want that.

Thanks for the article!

My mom was always very open about sex, too. The limits I put on it, though, is I don't want to know about anything that's happened between her and my dad. That's just… childish, I know but still kinda icky. xP

Oh you silly ueber-Christians with your side hugs…

“Go wash your soul”

I LOVE this post. I have lots of super christian friends who are the same way – they pledge themselves to be pure until marriage. I mean, I am all for a clean conscious, but…I couldn’t do it. Obviously.

What was great about my mom, was that she told me that I would know when the right time was…and I did. Granted, I was 16, and while that is quite young, I was comfortable with the act and who I was with (Who I was with for two years, thanks…not just a fling). I was educated from my mother, to use protection and blah blah, and she never told me masturbation was wrong…

Of course, we are Jewish too, so..YEAH JEWS! Lol…(Not to be offensive…)

My mother is the same way as I am. She had books, I have the internet. We both researched things that we wanted to know more about. It was sex. We learned lots of things that helped us figure stuff out about our bodies, hearts, and where exactly it all fits in in a relationship…and the education is something I wouldn’t give away for anything.

I am all for purity, but….a lot of these kids will do it, just because it’s ‘bad or taboo’ when really it is beautiful, but they just don’t know enough about it…

Hence teen pregnancies (or, at least, a lot of them. I think society should bring back the teaching teens to use condoms and not abstinence thing, because…it came in handy a lot more to me.)