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Ep.23 Ask the Expert: 'Biological Dangers of Premarital Sex' (Part 1)

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Today I’m speaking with our expert about this week’s topic. It’s practical. It hits all the hard places, and offers tips and solutions to help us move to the next level.

Episode Summary

In this episode of Ask the Expert, Dr. Brittanie Clacken explains that our brains are wired, through chemical reactions, to support sexual purity and monogamy. Once we go outside of that preordained construct we rewire the brain to attract and accept self-harm through an increased desire for premarital sex, multiple partners, pornography and adultery. 

Key Takeaways

  • Sex is the two becoming one flesh (Gen 2:24), fused together at the deepest level (Hebrew ehad) (3:43)
  • There are many spiritual, physical/biological, social, and emotional implications when we have premarital sex (5:16)
  • Emotional  bonding occurs by chemicals in the brain: dopamine (the thrill seeker),  oxytocin (female bonding agent) and vasopressin (male bonding agent)  (8:05)
  • Dopamine addicts the couple to want to have sex with each other, even in toxic relationships (13:52)
  • Sex  with multiple partners rewires the brain so that the dopamine release  occurs only when you have sex with different partners. This makes it  hard to accept monogamy (15:48)

    • Top Quotes

    • Sexual purity is the attitude, action and choice of conducting oneself sexually in the way that pleases God (3:30)
    • Sexual  activity...is any intimate contact between two individuals that  involves arousal, stimulation, and or a response by at least one of the  two partners (6:12)
    • It's  chemical warfare going on. It's spiritual warfare, physical  warfare...and a chemical thing that's going on that kind of keeps us  sometimes in these negative cycles (12:23)
    • So even though the activity in and of itself, you know, is hurting you your brain wants to get that dopamine rush (13:47)
    • It  (oxytocin) creates a desire to be near this person, and to place  greater trust in this person....and then the more you expose yourself  physically to the same person, the harder it will be to say no (18:12)

      • Resources

      • The Safest Sex
      • Sex Should Be Between One Man And One Woman
      • How Premarital Sex Rewires The Brain
      • Why Premarital Sex Is A Bad Idea
      • Scripture references: Genesis 2:24, Proverbs 4:23

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