I think modesty is important. Especially how we’re teaching it. However, the problem at the root is our seeming reluctance to talk about sex because it’s such a sacred thing. It’s becoming a problem. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s a beautiful thing, but because only married couples are supposed to engage in sexual intercourse, teaching about it, talking about it, and learning about it is almost taboo. I think it should be taught in the home.
There are a lot of things wrong with the United States culture at large that keeps seeping in to our mormon and church culture and it’s really starting to irk me.
However I think the correct action is to teach the young men how to fight against sexual urges, not to tell the young women to cover up more. Why do you really think that programs like Sons of Helaman exist? Satan is going ballistic in the society that we have all around us that young women must be desirable. If you are not desirable, you are not worthy of attention. We exude this message throughout nearly every media outlet we have. If your breasts aren’t the right size or shape, a guy may not like you. If your hair is done just right, and you don’t have a thigh gap, you can’t attract a guy, because that makes you ugly.
What a horrible message to send. What makes it worse is how common it is. There is nothing wrong with having an attractive face, a large bust, a thigh gap, and smooth legs. Just like there’s nothing wrong with having a small bust, large thighs, and a “plain” face.
This message that we’re sending to the young women is hurting EVERYONE. The guys accept the media’s ideas of “the perfect women” and then aren’t taught what pornography is. We’re warned repeatedly to “stay away from pornography” and then never explicitly told what it is.
Pornography is the sexually explicit image of a woman in various levels of dress or undress that stimulates the sex organs. I could get more explicit than that but I really don’t want to. There can be beauty found in the naked human body, because it is a beautiful creation, but if it’s sexually stimulating, it should be considered pornography.
Because we’re not explicitly told what, exactly, it is, young men tend to find it online, whether by purposefully searching for images that please them or by accident, which is definitely not a feat. Pornography can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Soft pornography is entirely up to the individual. For someone it could be a woman as covered in you could be and it might still be arousing just because of a body shape. Human sight and sexual organs aren’t really run by logic.
Young men are taught to be warriors and Priesthood bearers and taught that modesty is a good thing, and taught to stay away from sex and porn, and then not taught anything on how to avoid it in direct correlation to it.
Reading your scriptures is a primary answer. One that people give because they can’t or don’t want to think of anything else. But why is it important? It LITERALLY gives us a spiritual shield against temptation. Reading your scriptures is as important today as wearing armor was on the battlefields of the Nephite warriors.
Praying is another primary answer. We’re told to pray twice daily. WHY? Because it is a literal communication from the creation to the Creator. It is extremely important for us to pray because it is as vital to our cause of staying righteous now as it is for any military operation to have communication with the line of defense and headquarters.
You know what the first rule of a military engagement is? Obtain communication methods with home and HQ. Why should it be any different for us on our day-to-day lives when we live in a war zone?
“If we live in a war zone, why don’t I see any damage?”
24 people are either being stalked, a victim of rape, or sexual assault every single minute in the United States alone.
That’s just one statistic. It should be enough to get things moving, but it doesn’t seem to be. I attend a weekly group therapy course and I will tell you right now that we are at war with forces greater than we think.
Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there - isn’t that what we teach that faith is? Faith is knowing without seeing, believing with or without proof. So why is it really such a hard thing to believe that there’s a force to be reckoned with out there that hates us all individually just as much as Christ lives all of us equally?
Satan delights in the perversion of young men. Because he knew us all and knew what we were like up in Heaven. He doesn’t want any strong missionaries, preaching the gospel of truth and light and love to people that he’s worked since they were at least eight years old to do his bidding.
I’m not saying that everyone out there just because they’re not Mormon is a bad person, or that they don’t have morals, or that they don’t believe in doing what’s right, or that they don’t believe in some sort of evil force or being out there. What I am saying is that we as individuals who are part of larger groups of beings need to recognize that just because this is the true Church doesn’t mean that the culture is true too.
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