Sex & God’s Timetable — How soon is too soon to have Sex?

Gone are the days when men courted and wooed women, when love and trust was built before couples consummated their relationship. Men knew well then that women needed to feel loved to want sex, unlike their male counterparts who needed sex to feel loved.

We can feel nostalgic for the romance and courtship of bygone days, when patience was the key, and things evolved on God’s timetable.

How sad that those times are behind us...

Welcome to the new world. A world where instant gratification is the new norm, and experimenting with sex with no strings attached is accepted as part of the dating game. Love is rarely present in the equation. We’re the hook-up, break-up generation. We get into any relationship at the slightest attraction and step away the minute we get bored in a rush to find greener pastures.

Fading decorum around courting, and online dating apps among other things, are being blamed. We live in a passive-aggressive culture and are in such a hurry to experiment that we don’t particularly care to get to know the person we’re dating.

The overwhelming amount of sexual information online and in the media places a lot of pressure on men and women to perform. Added to that is overwhelm of technology that prevails, so much so that we have become…