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 Based on your
own experience, do you think parents and children talk about sex in
healthy ways? If you had a positive experience with this when you
were growing up, what was the impact it had on your life? How did it
affect your ability to deal with peer pressure and related decision
making?
If you did not
have positive conversations about sexuality with the adults in your
family, what impact do you think this may have had? How would you
approach this topic with your children? (Or perhaps you already
have?)
Do you think
our culture in general is able to talk about sexuality in healthy
ways? What church or community programs or opportunities can you
think of that might encourage supportive, positive conversations?
How could such new programs or opportunities be started in your
community?
Self-esteem is
one of the keys to being able to resist being manipulated into
commercial sexual exploitation. Are you able to gauge if the young
people you know or in your church or community have good
self-esteem? If not, why not, and what needs to change to help them
develop healthy attitudes about themselves, their value, and the
gift of sexuality?
Commercial
sexual exploitation is about more than just prostitution. Sexual
exploitation exists all around in media, advertising, and so on.
This, too, is an abuse of God’s gift of sexuality. Do you think this
makes physical and emotional abuse more tolerated or even leads to
it in some way? Does it open doors that might not otherwise be
there? Does it diminish our ability to be outraged?
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