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Meaning To Sex


                Hollinger will help you see how our society is a culture lost when it comes to the meaning of sex. As I began reading I quickly returned to the Ten Commandments and how sin flows from the top down—if we have broken any of the other nine commandments we have broken the first one too. I wonder if those commandments are progressive in this way—if we can keep the first one, will we be able to keep the others as well, including not coveting or committing adultery. Do the Ten Commandments speak about the significance of our sexuality and of its meaning in relation to God and our worship of Him?
                Is there hypocrisy within our culture to say certain things are wrong or need to have governmental control and yet certain things need not? We need gun control is what people are saying now after the tragedies that have happened recently; but what of sexual expression control? What if the limitless expression of our sexuality actually leads to uncontrolled expression in other areas including the use of guns, or money, eating, or other parts of our bodies?
                Hollinger's separation of the topic of sex is very helpful: natal sex, sexual identity, gender roles, and sexual orientation. I wonder if sexual intimacy has a place among these four. The experience of sex with another would seem to be a worthy topic touching on the others but separate and still significant.
                I remember reflecting on the teachings about sexuality and proper expression in my youth group growing up. I know my mind drew upon the teachings I had received about God’s design for sexual relations in important moments. I know the importance of such teachings at such an age, for without them things could have been very different for many of us.
                Hollinger does a great many contributions worth outlining and passing on. The way he shapes and forms his arguments for sex and sexuality and those sins that pervert and hurt the original design is among the most masterful I have read. This is definitely going to be taken off my book shelf and referred to in the immediate yeas to come.
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