Rethinking Sex Ed: The Wisdom of Religion..... Without the Crazy

by Doug Hammack

We religious folk have to change how we teach our kids about sex. The statistics are in. What we're doing isn't working. In fact, our whole society must rethink sex education. Nobody's approach is working well. Social and economic forces have forever changed the context in which our sexuality plays out. Families are whipsawed by a blistering pace of historical change. After thousands of years of gender, sex, and marriage working one way, in just a handful of decades, everything has been upended. No wonder it's so difficult to talk to our kids. If you have a young person you love, this book can help. When religion is at its best, it accumulates and transmits the wisdom of the ages. At its worst, it devolves into rigid rules and inflexible craziness. Rethinking Sex-Education explores religion's accumulated wisdom about human sexuality . . . and the crazy that has to be dismantled to create a healthy and helpful curriculum for our young people. Hopelessly divided, religion and society don't talk about sex. Religion can't imagine it's time to rethink the old ways. Society can't imagine religion has anything to offer. The book explores what we can learn from one another. Drawing from religion, history, biology, anthropology, and economics, Rethinking helps us think both broadly and practically. It helps grownups rethink our own sexual framework, and then imagine practical sexual conversations with our young people. It's a book for religious people who realize the traditional approach isn't working. It's a book for non-religious people who realize our no-norm social norms aren't working either.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1718154313
• ISBN13: 9781718154315
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"