Friends with Benefits - what’s the deal?

In this episode of Living Fullness, the hosts tackle ‘friends with benefits’ and the spectrum of thought that people have about this form of relationship.

Our climate says it’s no big deal, so why are you making it into a deal? There’s a spectrum. Here it is: Some say Sex is important, has meaning and is intimate, meant for only ‘the special someone’ or ‘special someone’s where the relationship is particularly deep’.

Towards the other end of the spectrum is that Sex is sometimes allotted like a diary entry: There’s an implicit commitment, and expectation from the start. Some will say sex is a biological function which can be used at any time and place, with only one moral quality - consent. It’s a mutual agreement, If you and I agree and give informed consent then the behaviour is perfectly acceptable. In this view there is no meaning behind sex beyond the immediate sense pleasures experienced in the act itself.

Then there’s what a Christian believes and how the work of John Paul II helps us understand the framework better. Listen to the episode to find out more.

For more information on Theology of the Body look to Fire Up Ministries - https://fireupministries.com/ and the Chastity Project - https://chastity.com/

T.B.G

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