Professional Documents
Culture Documents
schools
PSHE course on love and
sexuality
By Robert Colquhoun
Robert543@gmail.com
Prayer
O my God, teach me to love others
with purity. Help me to love with
generosity and goodness, to
respect myself and others in the
way I act and to reverence the way
that you have given us for the
creation of new life.
Deep and difficult questions
Is there a purpose to life? What is
the
purpose and meaning of the body?
What exactly is love?
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, "America's Adults and Teens Sound Off
About Teen Pregnancy: An Annual National Survey," (December 16, 2003), 17.
Source: Chastity.com
Why save sex until
marriage?
Less likely to divorce
When a man is married as a virgin, his
divorce rate is 63 percent lower than a
non-virgin. For women, it's 76 percent
lower.
Edward O. Laumann, et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality:
Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1994), 503.
Source: chastity.com
Why save sex until
marriage?
The younger a girl is when she
becomes sexually active, the more
likely she is to experience multiple
sexual partners, STDs, out of
wedlock pregnancies, depression,
abortion, and poverty.
Heritage Foundation, "The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and
Multiple Sexual Partners Among Women: A Book of Charts."
What is love?
We are all looking for love. Sometimes we
look for the right thing in the wrong places.
Aquinas 'Love is willing the good of another
person.'
Pope John Paul II: ‘love is not merely a feeling,
but an act of the will, preferring the good of
another to the good of oneself. Love is not
easy.’
How does love relate to
happiness?
“Because true happiness, dear
friends, does not consist in the
pleasures of the world or in earthly
things, but in peace of conscience,
which we have only if we are pure
in heart and mind.”
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
What is the difference between love
and lust?
Lust is a disordered desire for or
inordinate enjoyment of sexual
pleasure, sought for itself.
Lust is the counterfeit of love.
Comparing love with lust
Words to describe lust:
Objectifying devious
lifeless temporary
Uses criticizes unattached
Disloyal selfish manipulates
Shallow insensitive impure
Demanding blind intimidates
Discards obsessed
Comparing love with lust
Words to describe love
gives personal honest
waits life giving life long
chooses sympathizes committed
faithful generous communicates
deep responsive pure
understands kind appreciates
kind accepts given talks adores
What is the difference between chastity
and abstinence?