One of the most common questions parents have is when and how to talk with children about sexuality. Youth and young adults are often scared or uncertain about sexuality. Parents, where have your children learned about sexuality? From school and the media with a worldly perspective or from you with a gospel perspective?
The August 2020 issue of the Ensign magazine has 15 articles to help parents and youth talk about sexual intimacy in a positive and gospel-centered way. President M. Russell Ballard has said, “Be positive about how wonderful and beautiful physical intimacy can be when it happens within the bounds the Lord has set, including temple covenants and commitments of eternal marriage.”
Below are the articles from the Ensign that may be helpful to you:
- Teaching How to Be Sexually Pure and Prepared
- Four Truths about Love and Marriage
- The Divine Purposes of Sexual Intimacy
- How, When, and Why: Talking to Your Children about Sexuality
- Learning to See Sexuality as a Sacred Gift
- Fostering a Positive Perspective of Sexuality
- How I Learned to Understand God’s View of Sexuality
- Living the Law of Chastity in a Dating World Full of Gray Areas
- Bridling Your Passions: How to Align Sexual Thoughts and Feelings with the Lord’s Expectations
- Could I Really Live the Law of Chastity?
- Conversations about Intimacy and Sex That Can Prepare You for Marriage
- My Experience Living the Law of Chastity with Same-Sex Attraction
- How the Savior’s Healing Power Applies to Repenting from Sexual Sin
- The World’s Way vs. the Lord’s Way: What the Media Gets Wrong about Sexual Intimacy
- Insights from Young Adults on the Blessings of Living the Law of Chastity
