Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You - Softcover

Rittenhouse, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692244751 ISBN 13: 9780692244753

Publisher: Vox Verbatim, 2014

Synopsis

Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You encourages parents to end the legacy of silence that leaves so many young people to learn about sex from all the wrong sources.

Author Michael Rittenhouse takes his cue from Theology of the Body, showing that just as all human creatures have an appetite for food, we also have an appetite for sex. And just as our culture is awash in junk food, we’re facing a glut of sexual misinformation distracting us from true fulfillment.

Drawing on truthful teachings from both the secular and Judeo-Christian viewpoints, Sex details a healthy sexuality in terms anyone can grasp. Chapters feature:

the critical value of masculinity and femininity, two equal opposites that, put together, make couples whole

a summary of natural law, the metaphysics that guides regardless of faith

the special problem of Internet porn, which is being quietly overcome in little-noted corners of the Web

the latest in scientific findings, which affirm that humans were made to enjoy intimacy and sex, and to mate for life

accurate language and reasoning to help you explain what’s good and right about the gift of sexuality

Two qualities differentiate Sex from books already on the shelves. One is its reliance on secular teachings to support truths revealed in Scripture, reaching out to the unchurched as well as the faithful.

The other is the author’s storytelling approach, leading each chapter with his own experiences wandering the desert of a confused culture. His concrete, poignant, and often funny recollections illustrate, in vivid terms, widely held but wrongheaded ideas about sexuality, and their life-changing consequences.

About this title

About the Author

"I couldn't find what I wanted to read in one book. So I wrote it."

Author Michael Rittenhouse is an American journalist and speaker with 25 years of fact-gathering experience. His lifelong passion is uncovering the common threads in natural law and literature that enlighten minds in the Judeo-Christian tradition of inquiry and wonder.

Michael earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently travels the U.S. with his wife of 16 years and three home-schooled children.

Speaker info at michaelrittenhouse dot com.

From the Back Cover

Ready to talk to your kids about sex?

The Internet is.

Many of our own parents didn't talk to us about sex at all. So, what are we supposed to say?

A generation that learned about sex from sitcoms, disco, and Hooters needs a book written for adults. Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You fills that void. Author and journalist Michael Rittenhouse looks to philosophical authorities from Dr. Martin Luther King to C.S. Lewis to the writers of Mad Men, contrasting the lessons of natural law with the SNAFUs in his own personal history.

And, as if we needed science to prove that humans were built to enjoy sex and mate for life, Rittenhouse finds the latest research in support of that--most of which has met with silence by mass media.

Fortunately, readers of Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You will no longer have to wonder where their innate, good sense about sexuality came from. It's part of our nature, and it points us to a spiritual level missed by "liberated" sexuality.

Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You can help you start a new tradition of healthy, integrated, informed sexuality in your family.

Here's what early readers of Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You are saying:

"It's an easy read, interesting and entertaining. The way in which it flows from beginning to end provides a gradual and natural movement toward the spiritual."

"You lay solid groundwork for the relationship between sex and natural law, offering clearly understandable definitions, largely by using very accessible analogies."

"The personal experiences you relay and your candor in conveying them lend enormous credibility to your work, particularly as I and, I suspect, most guys our general age can relate."

"Thank you for taking on this sorely needed conversation."

From the Inside Flap

Did your parents ever have "the talk" with you?

Did you learn about love and sex through trial-and-error, or worse--television?

Do you wonder how you'll prepare your children for healthy, gratifying sex lives?

A previous generation thought it had to choose between the no-sex life of a Prude and the what's-wrong-with-that carousing of a Liberator. (This has never been true!)

Now that our own kids are asking questions, we're looking for the right language and reasoning to help them steer around the land mines in front of them.

Husband, father, and journalist Michael Rittenhouse has collected enduring truths about love, sex, and spirituality from the secular and religious worlds, showing that our birthright has always been a healthy, gratifying sexuality. The next generation deserves that, too.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vox Verbatim
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692244751
• ISBN 13: 9780692244753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152