Reading List: Chastity

Books


Online

• Sex and the Natural Law
  Mark Minardi offers some reasons for chastity that can be known through human experience and reason - in other words through the Natural Moral Law.
  

• Feminism and the Unraveling of the Social Bond:
It has not been easy to acknowledge that feminism has promoted the unraveling of the most binding and important social bonds. Not easy, but unavoidable.


• Kinsey’s Secret: The Phony Science of the Sexual Revolution:
It’s now more than 50 years since the revolution began. Sexual “liberation” has been endlessly ballyhooed by the national media, promoted in the movies, embraced by Playboy guys and Cosmo girls as a freedom more delicious than Eden’s apple.


• QUESTION: Should I move in with my boyfriend before we get married? It seems like a smart move, because you want to really know a person before you commit to life together.
Aside from all of the spiritual factors regarding premarital sex, let's take a look at what researchers have found about living together before marriage. Two researchers summarized the findings of numerous studies by stating that "expectation of a positive relationship between cohabitation and marital stability . . . has been shattered in recent years by studies conducted in several Western countries."


• SHOULD WE LIVE TOGETHER?
What Young Adults Need to Know about Cohabitation before Marriage: a Comprehensive Review of Recent Research


• Waxman's anti-abstinence report is melting:
Last week, California Democrat Congressman Henry Waxman issued a report claiming that most federally funded abstinence-only programs teach "false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health."


• Waxman Report Is Riddled with Errors and Inaccuracies:
A new report from Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) and the minority staff of the House Committee on Government Reform, The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs, is yet another attempt by aggressive proponents of comprehensive sex education to discredit and undermine the message of authentic abstinence education.


• Acting on What We Know
Research has shown us what factors lead to divorce, giving us hope to turn the tide of divroce if we only have the courage to implement necessary changes.



• Fact Sheet on Divorce in America
Statistics about the prevalence and the effects of divorce on our society.


• Facts About Marital Distress and Divorce



• Marriage and Family Fact Sheet
John Paul II Consortium on Marriage and the Family

Lectures

• The Cosmic Dance:
C.S. Lewis's joyful cosmology of femininity and masculinity


• Women and the Priesthood:
Why "only boys can be the daddies"

Summa Theologica

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