Flee from
sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he
who sins sexually sins against his own body. 1 Corinthians 6:18
Our warped natures, the devils who tempt us, and all the
contemporary propaganda for lust, combine to make us feel that the desires we
are resisting are so 'natural', so 'healthy', and so reasonable, that it is
almost perverse and abnormal to resist them. Poster after poster, film after
film, novel after novel, associate the idea of sexual indulgence with the idea
of health, normality, youth, frankness, and good humour. Now this association
is a lie. Like all powerful lies, it is based on a truth—the truth,
acknowledged above, that sex in itself (apart from the excesses and obsessions
that have grown round it) is 'normal' and 'healthy', and all the rest of it.
The lie consists in the suggestion that any sexual act to which you are tempted
at the moment is also healthy and normal. Now this, on any conceivable view,
and quite apart from Christianity, must be nonsense. Surrender to all our
desires obviously leads to impotence, disease, jealousies, lies, concealment,
and everything that is the reverse of health, good humour, and frankness.
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