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In Reply to: Family's sex rules permit statutory rape posted by Alan on August 27, 2003 at 05:51:36:
First you are raised in a sexually free atmosphere where you are basically taught that to NOT share your body with someone else will bring on the damnations of God and you are labelled as a 'child' and immature, unable to handle the 'meat' of the 'Word'. For a child of 5,6,7 and up, this is very sexually confusing. Your emotions are NOT prepared to handle this sort of adult material, but you try your best to believe and perhaps do it.
Then the sex is totally taken away from you (HCS in 1988 or 1989 when the new 'no-sex between minors' rules were enforced for awhile, before the 'teen marriage revolutions' were put into place). That caused quite a stir amongst my particular age group (the older of the SGA) who were used to regular sex with whomever they chose.
Then a few years later you have the Charter with all its intricate detailed sex laws, and then you have Loving Jesus where fucking Jesus is now the 'in', and of course, marriage between the two generations, encouraging younger ladies to marry the older adult men (to clarify, this doesn't mean the minors, but ladies around 21 or so).
How did it affect me? Well, to be honest, it really really messed me up sexually. I always had a hard time with it, simply I think cause the ideas were forced on me in an unnatural way at a young age. I was never molested or raped, but I was approached by older men when I was a little girl, I got the 'feelie-touchie' a few times, as I got older men came on to me a lot, and I learned quickly how to manuever my way around gropy paws and get out of sticky situations.
But not without a price, and the price was guilt, condemnation and confusion. Physically I couldn't bring myself to 'give' in this area, but spiritually and emotionally I wanted to be a quality disciple who would do anything for her Lord, but death seemed an easier sacrifice to sex.
I think kids should find out about sex in natural ways, when their emotions develop and amongst their peers, and not be such a dictated and regulated thing. The group is so 'free' about sex, but then it has so many laws to govern it, they have lost some 'freedom'. I feel way more 'free' today, just cause I can be who I am without the pressure of conforming to a set of rules (of course, in society we have basic rules governing sex, mainly, no adults with minors and no rape, but we don't have this intricate mess of laws to abide by).
Anyway, I never understood why they couldn't just say, "Sex rules are as the society around you, follow those and you won't get in trouble", then the members of the particular country would just need to be up-to-date about the laws of the country they are in. Where I live, sex between adult and minor is OK at 16 I believe, 18 at the latest.
