sex is God's invention to be celebrated in the context of a lifelong heterosexual marriage relationship. This article explores the underlying factors contributing to these statistics and offers a Christian perspective on the deep significance of healthy sexual relationships within society. This episode highlights key Christian views on sexual and reproductive health. it aims to help teens on how to think and act with understand of Christian values. 

As Christians, we would assert that this commoditization of sex outside of permanent relationship is a much-distorted view of sex, and that many sexual images in popular culture are negative or manipulative, usually self-centred and focused upon 'what I can get out of it'. We aim to communicate a Christian view of what God has revealed in Scripture, affirming the positives of sex as his precious gift. It is God who made mankind and God made us male and female (Genesis 1:27). Everything God made is good (Genesis 1:31), including our sexuality. The two sexes complement one another perfectly. The biblical context of sexual intercourse is within the exclusive and life-long committed relationship of marriage (Genesis 2:23-25; 1 Corinthians 7:3-5, 39). God's design was for pleasure and enjoyment. As CS Lewis put it, 'Pleasure is God's idea, not the Devil's.' The Song of Songs celebrates sexual intimacy as a profound form of communication and being between the bride and her husband. Instead of 'what I can get', the Bible sees sex as giving of ourselves in love to another.

God gave us the clear boundary for sexual intercourse within marriage for the health and well being of both individuals and society. The Bible teaches clearly that sexual immorality is sin - both sexual intercourse outside of marriage and lustful thoughts (Matthew 5:27, 28). In 1 Corinthians 6, the Apostle Paul argues strongly that, for Christians, our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit and that sexual sin is an offence against our own bodies (1 Corinthians 6:18-20).