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As for going through life with someone who is your life–this girl is a turtle at best, and while turtles can look like good rocks, they’re actually quite lousy ones. If you don’t want a turtle deciding to get up and move and leave you behind in the dust, I’d suggest turning to the Rock of Ages.

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How do people refrain from having sex before they get married? I’m 18 and I’ve never touched myself before or had sex but it’s getting difficult. How can I keep myself pure? –Kyle Dear Kyle, I commend you for your decision to remain sexually pure. By following God’s design for sex, you’ll gain far more than the scorn of mockers, you’ll both maximize pleasure and minimize pain and regrets. I realize how easy it is to forget this in the heat of the moment. Believe it or not, until about five years ago now, I was an unmarried person two years out of her teens,Read More →

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Is oral sex still considered sex as far as losing your virginity? My girlfriend keeps pressuring me to let her… –Anon I believe the optimal word in “oral sex” would be “sex.”  It would at the very least destroy your purity. Such an intimate act belongs on the marriage bed and is sin outside it. Look at it this way. Biblically, in this context, your body does not belong to you. It belongs to the woman you will marry someday.  The best gift you can give your future wife on your wedding day is a husband who hasn’t already shared any more of her “property”Read More →

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I recieved a private letter that I won’t disclose, but imagine any number of ladies reading this could have written something along the following lines: Dear Andrea, My fiance/boyfriend confessed to a porn addiction/ongoing use and suggested I might want to call off the engagement/stop seeing him. I’ve read up on this subject, so I have an idea of how hard our life together would be, but …. (insert excuses reasons for wanting to marry Mr. Wrong here.) In short, I love him, and if I say yes (or continue in the engagement) I can help him overcome this even though right now he’s readyRead More →