Jedadi Sexual Temptations In Social Media

Every generation experiences an event or societal change that influences adolescence. Technology, specifically cellular devices, have revolutionized the culture of dating and relationships. Sexting, by definition is sending someone sexually explicit photographs or messages via cell phone, has become the new normal for adolescents. More importantly, teen girls experience the pressure and repercussions of sexting. Whether a girl choses to do so or not, she is ridiculed for either being a “slut” or a “prude” amongst her peers. Our society projects women as sexual objects through images, films, and videos in media which teaches young female consumers to objectify themselves in order to capture the male gaze. Because our society is sexualized, it is no surprise that sexting has become part of dating and the gender script. The issues with sexting, particularly with adolescents females, is that it teaches them to sexually objectify themselves in order to win the boy and keep him interested. Unfortunately, if those explicit images circulate amongst other people, the girl gets bullied and slut-shamed.

1 Corinthians 7:3-5 is a great example of how a married couple should fulfill each other’s sexual needs, so sex was made to be a great thing. In verse nine of the same chapter it states that “it’s better to marry than to burn with lust”, which goes back to stating that sex is to be enjoyed in marriage so if someone feels like that they can’t control their sexual urges than they should just get married. The church has preached about this for many years and yet many Christian singles still engage in multiple sexual relationships, watch porn and masturbate and see it as a normal thing. There is an interesting article on Relevant Magazine’s website called “The Secret Sexual Revolution” where they mentioned a surprising statistic of the number of young adult Christians having premarital sex is at eighty percent. What I found most interesting about this article is this

This is where the tension lies. The underlying question is who decides what is right and wrong? Do humans or does God? As a Christian I believe God decides and has revealed his design for humans from beginning to end in the Bible. Of course there were things God said to people in the Bible days that were specifically relating to their context. God also revealed many universal principals for all humans to follow and obey. A part of this study is to look at what God has said about sex, sexuality and relationships that was universal not contextual.

Human beings yearn for connection and belonging: which many American people feel this way to be true. Through this saying, Shelley Galasso Bonanno, wrote “Social Media’s Impact on Relationships,” published in 2016, on Psych Central, and she argues that the use of social media tends to have more of a positive mental impact on individuals whereas, the less use of social media tends to make individuals feel lonely and despaired. Also, mentioning the use of social media can alter face to face contact and real connections. Bonanno begins to build her credence with research, studies and personal experience, and prosperously incorporating emotional appeals. However, toward the end of the article, Bonanno’s attempt to appeal to reader’s emotions strengthen her credence, and ultimately her argument.

Mary and Eve were used by artists and the church to police female sexuality. sexualizing Eve in the depictions of the original sin to disparage female sexuality, and depicting Mary as non-sexual to show that maternal and virginal femininity were the “correct' behaviour for women.

Social media has become an outlet for teenagers to communicate constantly, monitor each other’s lives, and control what they want others to see. As social media is becoming more and more popular, more teenage moral panics are occurring. A moral panic is defined as the “fear of a new technology’s or cultural form’s negative impact outside of parental control.” (Jackson) Throughout these past few years, there have been an endless amount of teenage moral panics. Snapchat is an application that has caused a great amount of controversy. With the Snapchat application, you get to control how long the person you send a photo to can view that photo before it disappears. The problem with this is that you can take a snapshot of the photo before it disappears. Snapchat has become to be a teenage moral panic; more specifically Snapchat “sexting”, which is “the act of sending sexual messages and pictures to another person through phones or the internet.”(Klower) On Snapchat parents cannot control what their teenagers are sending and to who their teenagers are sending pictures and videos to. Therefore, teenagers feel a sense of privacy, and use the application to sext, which can lead to various negative behaviors.

The society in which Jesus was among rejected the poor and the weak ,but Jesus made these people the very centre of his message and ensured that they were the most honoured. The Society declined women as equals in the community where as Jesus freely associated with them and accepted them into his central ministry as equals. Jesus embraced with love and compassion the sick and the ‘unclean’ who were not accepted by his society. He scolded upon those who had wealth and power as they were people who simply refused to give help to those less

Over the years so much has changed in terms of peoples views on young peoples sexuality and on sexting and the rules and consequences associated with sexting. If you jump forward a generation or two to the contemporary world, you will realise the social and sexual landscape has changed dramatically. Sex is regulated less and is in some ways less risky for many young Australians. More young people are having sex and more are having sex at young ages. Social mores have changed. The feminist and gay rights social movements have mobilised for legal and social change. For heterosexual young people, effective contraception is widely available and pregnancy terminations are legal and available through the public health care system. Homosexual sex

I do feel like social media, texting/sexting increases the probability of an affair because it makes it easier to cheat on your partner due to all of the temptation being displayed constantly and instantly. Additionally, even if this relationship is just communicating via social media or phone, it is still cheating. One of the most important elements in a relationship is being emotional attached to the other person, which one can do without ever meeting one another. I would personally prefer a partner to physically cheat versus share an emotional bond with another person. However, when it comes to finding out if my partner is cheating, I do not purposely seek out, or snoop, to discover whether they are cheating. Though, if there is a situation

Biblical Modesty In society today, modesty no longer has a strong appeal to young women because it is not the “cool” thing to do. However, more and more people are starting to think that self-expression and individuality are more important than being modesty. The media portrays women as being “sexual objects” rather than being respectable human beings. Many popular women on TV, in movies, and in music videos are not only dressing in provocative ways, but they are also acting in inappropriate ways to get the attention of their male viewers.

The Bible is specific about sexuality and the right and wrongful ways to practice sex. Leviticus lays out verse after verse for what is acceptable in the eyes of God and what should be punishable. In Leviticus 18:6-30, unlawful sexual relations are set out and given to the people. If one lays with any of the family’s relatives, lays with another man, lays with an animal, or anyone that they are not married to, they are wrongful. If a man or woman does have sexual relations with another with whom they are not married, they will not only have defiled themselves, but also the land. It says in verse twenty-eight that if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as the nations before you. Not only will they be vomited, but they must be cut off from their people.

I agree that we should not limit ourselves but actively engage with the world in a meaningful way. Song of Solomon presents a topic that I think a lot of Christians steer around, sexuality. I asked

Biblical writing tends to have strict laws about sex and sexuality and how it was expressed and universally accepted. The Pauline Epistles, or Paul’s views, had unique views on sex because he completely distrusted gender as a whole and because he believed that there would be an apocalypse. Many of Paul’s ideas were widely accepted back than because they explained may things that people could not, for instance it explains homosexuality. Today, the laws are seen differently and in some cases interpreted much more literally than they were back then. It is likely that ideas have changed either because people have become more understanding and accepting of others or because we no longer view sex and sexuality as a thing to be ashamed of. This new age of interpretation is seen in the way homosexuality is accepted today, submission of the wife to the husband in some religious dominations, and the ideal of marriage and its sexual implications.

I believe that Jesus brought up the examples of adultery to better illustrate his point.

Prior to the death of Mr. Collins father, his consumption of Internet pornography and sexual chatting was not considered remarkable. He appeared to be able to function sexually while masturbating and during sexual intercourse with the partners in his life prior to this life-altering event. Mr. Collins expressed a relatively normal desire for sexual contact as a teenager as well as desire to couple with partners his age in traditional ways, but after the death of his father, what normally produced the arousal necessary to ejaculate while masturbating and having sexual intercourse, no longer appears to have had the desired effect. It is at this time that it appears that the symptoms of depression began to manifest in Mr. Collins life, depressed mood, decreased interest or pleasure, change in sleep, change in activity, and concentration. As these symptoms manifested, it appears that the indicators of Hypersexual Disorder began to develop; excessive masturbation, obsessing about sex to the point that it interfered with his life, spending significant time planning their sexual activity, frequent viewing of pornography or use of sexually explicit websites or other online services including adult chat rooms, frequent one-night stands with strangers, staying emotionally detached from sexual partners, frequently engaging in paraphilias, and inability to stop despite the consequences.