Love, Reason, and God’s Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics
In Love, Reason, and God’s Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics, Dr. David Cloutier provides readers with a basic understanding of the history of Catholic teaching on sexual ethics, particularly as it has evolved in the last half century. By engaging students in serious intellectual discussion, this author allows them to integrate that discussion with the practical questions that affect their lives.
This text explores the historical, spiritual, practical, and normative ele
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Sexual Wisdom for Catholic Adolescents
Catholicism is in a crisis of sexuality education. Very few Catholic teenagers and young adults know and love the unsurpassable teaching of the Church on sexuality. A 2008 study found that 60% of Catholic college students believe that abortion should be legal and that premarital sex is not a sin. Even in homes where Catholic values are strongly emphasized, the children often fall into serious sexual sin as adolescents and young adults. To address this urgent need, Dr. Richard Wetzel, who gave us
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Review by Patrice Fagnant-macarthur for Sexual Wisdom for Catholic Adolescents
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Note: This review contains adult material.
“Sexual Wisdom for Catholic Adolescents” was written to fill a need in the realm of Catholic Sex Education. It is designed for older adolescents and covers a wide range of topics relating to sexuality. It is intended to be used in the home, either with parent and child together or having the child read it on their own.
Dr. Wetzel begins with a good introduction to the biology of human sexuality. He then moves on to discuss sex without love, premarital sex, sexually transmitted diseases, pornography, artificial contraception and sterilization, natural family planning, infertility, and sexual deviations. He handles these topics in a straightforward, pull-no-punches manner. There are many things that adults will learn from reading this book.
One particularly insightful chapter is on “Good Sex.” In it, Dr. Wetzel divides sexual activity into five levels with Level 1 being “Perfect Sex: God’s ideal toward which we strive but can never achieve.” Level 7 is “Most severe sexual problems.” It is a useful chart because it clearly delineates different sexual behaviors. One can find where one is on the chart and know what he or she needs to work on to move closer to Level 2, the level which is as high level as we can achieve. It was comforting to know that everyone does struggle with sexual sin at some point. No one is perfect in this area.
One concern is that this book is recommended for older adolescents. Dr. Wetzel acknowledges that some will want to discuss topics with their children at a younger age. Many of these topics are only appropriate for those approaching adulthood. One would certainly not recommend going into detail with young children about the variety of sexual behavior or sexual codependency. However, children in today’s world are exposed to sex and are often offered sex at much younger ages. It is sad but true. Waiting until a child is sixteen to inform them about sex can be much too late. Eleven and twelve year olds are engaging in sexual activity. They need to be informed about the moral issues and physical concerns relating to this and they need to hear it from their parents. While one would not want to allow their eleven year old to read this book, it can offer a good starting point for parents to read and then choose what to discuss.
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:46 am
Review by Charlie Damore for Sexual Wisdom for Catholic Adolescents
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I previewed this book to use with my children for high school level sexuality education. I expected to be happy with it. What I hadn’t expected was to be so excited about getting it into my 13-year-old daughter’s hands! (She’s my only one at high school level so far.) I also didn’t expect to gain so much from the information presented for myself. Every teen should have this information, and for that matter, every adult. Though he recommends this for the older adolescent, I believe it is necessary at a younger adolescent age. Each parent, of course, will make this decision for their own children. I can’t wait to order his accompanying book, “Sexual Wisdom”, which goes into more detail of many topics that were only covered in a general manner in this outstanding resource. Very easy to read, but still scientificly, socially, and religiously sound. This book is also available in PDF form for free on the website [...]
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:30 am