FINAL EXAM Flashcards
AUTHORITY:
Why have teens lost respect for adults and institutions?
- Feel like the respect they need to show to adults is not reciprocated
- feel discriminated against because of their age
- this is hard for a generation that values its voice being heard
- teens have more respect for institutions such as schools, police force, the courts, etc.
Distinctions of homosexuality
- homosexual attraction
- homosexual drive (orientation)
- homosexual identity
- homosexual behaviour
Perspectives of Response
We tend to talk from these perspectives but address the other
- truth (ethics)
- love (pastoral care)
- public policy
Arguments for homosexual relations
- natural argument
- reinterpretation of the meaning of sex
- justice
- reinterpretation of authority
The Church’s response
- conviction with love
- understanding and empathy
- rid ourselves of homophobia
- help gays seek change
- enable gays to remain celebate
- affirm basic civil rights
Seven theological viewpoints
- prohibition
- toleration
- accommodation
- legitimation
- celebration
- liberation
- consecration
Porn: Why the struggle happens
- humans are naturally curious creatures
- they will seek it as a source of knowledge and comparative information about sexual information
- Significant factor in shaping the sexual values and attitudes of teenagers
Porn: Physiological Desires
- Teens are physically ready for sex sooner than they are ready for social intimacy, and the responsibilities of marriage
- For males there is a biological build up that requires release and this release when tied to pornography can become an obsession
- for women pornography and masturbation are a psychological thing
Porn: Availability
- mobile device
- secrecy of the internet
- magazines and phone sex are older but still prevalent
- porn shops and adult video stores are more restrictive because of age and possibility of being seen
Porn: Cultural Obsession
- Pornography is becoming normalized and more accepted
- pornography is fueled by the culture’s obsession with any sexual
Effects of porn:
- sexual addiction
- undesirable memories
- disrespect towards women
- distorted view of sex
- fear, guilt, and shame
L.E.A.D.E.R
Listen - they wont necessarily open up right away
Empathize - remember when you were a youth
Affirm - remind them that sexual desires are a normal thing
Direct - remind them that it is not easy to abstain from sexual immorality
Enlist - encourage them to devise their own plan of abstaining from sexual immorality
Refer - when you are embarrassed, unqualified, or a different gender than the youth
Definition of Pornography
- Any visual material that shows impairment of the body in a sexual conduct with a child, sexual violence and degradation, and anal or oral intercourse
- anything we use for sexual gratification or escape - whether it was intended for that purpose or not
