All Sex and Relationships articles – Page 2
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IssuesMasturbation: The lesser of multiple evils?
Is calling young people to live a masturbation-free life too tough a calling? Can it prevent ‘worse’ sexual sin? Over to Martin Saunders…
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IssuesHomosexuality: are our ministries LGB-friendly?
In many ways, homosexuality isn’t an elephant in the Church’s room; it feels like every time the Church gets any press coverage it focuses on its attitude towards gay people. But what does all of this mean for youth and children’s ministry? Helen Crawford investigates…
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IssuesRelationship-rooted discipleship
In youth and children’s ministry we’re constantly on the lookout for a silver bullet - one programme or approach that will solve our discipleship crisis. But Bath and Wiltshire YFC’s James Vaughton thinks it might be simpler than that…
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Faith at homeMention porn to teens in church
Rachel Gardner spoke with Maria Rodrigues about a new resource for parents to equip them to talk about porn and sexting with their teens. www.youthscape.co.uk
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IssuesYoung People and Sex
83% of Christian young people think sex is only for marriage; only 36% think homosexuality is a sin.
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BlogInternet pornography
This morning, David Cameron will announce new measures to combat the spread of Internet pornography, and particularly of images depicting rape and abuse. Under his proposals, every home in the UK will have pornography automatically blocked by their ISP, unless they choose to opt in to receive it. That sounds like a very good idea, right?
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IssuesSexual Healing
So, how often do you do it, and how do you do it? Not as often as you would like? Or are you bored at just how often you end up doing it? Well if that’s the case you might be the exception to the rule, because ...
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IssuesModern Slavery:The Fight For Freedom
Slavery is a global crime with no simple solution. As the Modern Slavery Bill goes through Parliament – what difference will it actually make if passed and what can we do about this forgotten humanitarian crisis? Jamie Cutteridge gives us the lowdown
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IssuesHow should the Christian community support trans kids?
In the same week as Louis Theroux’s documentary Transgender Kids hit our screens, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, the UK’s only centre specialising in gender identity issues among under-18s, revealed that referrals to its services have quadrupled in the past five years. The number of under-11s referred to the unit has risen from 19 in 2009-10 to 77 in 2014-15.
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Faith at homeYour children are watching porn
What is porn? The answer you give to that question will undoubtedly be based on your own experiences with pornographic content.
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IssuesSex Box
I remember stumbling across erotic fiction in my mid-teens. Every time I opened the book it was like white heat pouring from the page. It was scandalous. Daring. Exciting. A woman was writing about the united beating of heart and sex that together can create ecstasy. And oh, such ecstasy! I didn’t really know what any of it meant, but I knew one thing: the author loved the way sex melted two people into one. She craved the surrender that was at once both beautiful and terrifying.
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IssuesIs over-sexualisation affecting young people?
Do young people know more about the kind of sex we don’t want them to have than they know about the kind of sex we do want them to have?
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IssuesGirls in Gangs abused
A report from the Centre for Social Justice has shown that thousands of girls and young women experience brutality and exploitation as part of gang culture. The study, carried out with XLP, said that sexual exploitation, guns and drug-running are ‘a daily reality’ for thousands of young women. The report, entitled ‘Girls and Gangs’, calls for urgent action to fight the problem, criticising the Home Office for not doing enough to fight gang culture since the 2011 riots.
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IssuesLet’s talk about sex (maybe)
The sex talk is a perennial highlight / lowlight of the youth work calendar, but are we doing enough? Or are we playing it too safe? As Esther Hardy explains, in our young people’s over-sexualised world, it’s time to talk about sex in an entirely new way…
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IssuesGirls as Young as 11 sexually exploited
Two reports published by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner have warned that the level of sexual violence in neighbourhoods dominated by gangs and gang culture is comparable to that of a warzone. Professor Jenny Pearce, author of one of the reports entitled It’s wrong… but you get used to it, said: ‘In some areas the level of sexual violence and the types of violence inflicted are comparable to how sexual violence is used in war-torn territories.’
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