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Sexual Wisdom: A Guide for Parents, Young Adults, Educators, and Physicians

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This book may be the antidote for the sickness that now pervades our society in relationship to sex. Abortion, sexually tranmitted diseases, divorce, serial monogamous marriages, and sexual perversions are rampant.

Those of us who are parents and grandparents live in fear that our cherished children and grandchildren will become prey to one or more of these sicknessness.

American culture has become sex obsessed. The unhappiness of people increases in direct relationshiip to the "sexual enlightenment" they have experienced since the 1960's. Americans have been told that the answer to all of problems is better sex, guilt-free sex,and sex with no responsibility.

Why then has the teen suicide rate increased, why have marriages become more unstable. It is not because there is a dearth of information. In fact, there is a dearth of the WRONG kind of information.

Dr. Wetzel, in this timely book sets the record straight.

Sex without responsility and love is bad sex.

Women are hurt the most when either party is used "just for sex."

The answer to increased abortions and teen pregnancies is not more availability of abortion services or contraceptives. The answer is more responsilibity and self discipline in regard to sexual relations.

All of these facts are counter-cultural. The media sends the messages that say pleasure is the ultimate end of life--that people have "needs" and it is essential that they be met.

"Sexual Wisdom" is wisdom indeed. What we need is not more and better sex, but more and better love.

The author is a doctor with a profound respect for reason and good sense. He makes cogent, non-religious arguments based on statistics and studies from the leading psychologists of the day. His arguments are based on reason and his own experience as a doctor. Through out the book, the author weaves in conversations with patients and their sexual struggles, giving a human face to the positions he takes. His advice is sober and rational, which is probably why it received acclaim from Christians, Jews, Muslims, and non-religious groups. One big point he drives home again and again is that America needed a sexual revolution, but that we just got the wrong one. For those fed up with our society's sexual health, this is an excellent book that will enable you to make non-theological arguments against the latest sexual trends and fads of our declining sexual culture.

This book really helped me out, and I CAN relate to what this book talks about, my life was going downhill because of all these stupid ideas like "you need sex". This book is written by someone Catholic but the book sticks to more scientific and natural grounds, you can already find a bunch of Catholic answers out there, but this book approaches the whole thing at a different angle. Sure we know having premarital sex is wrong and a sin, but wrong in what way, how does it affect you, and those around you, and in how many ways is it harmful, this book gives you those answers and so much more. And think, do you need sex like you need clothing, food, water, sleep? Will you die if you don't have enough sex? On the contrary, you have better chances of suffering and even dying using sex wrongly, in fact, I doubt any one has ever died from not having sex. Now sure, theres the hormones thing and you can get that desire, but what you decide to do is a CHOICE, not a need, nothing bad will happen if you ignore those desires and in fact it will bother you less over time when you ignore them. So please consider this book, I can see things in this world now that I did not notice before, I knew bad things were happening, but i never truly SAW them. Just like the saying, "the truth will set you free", and this was it for me. And remember, those that will not hear the truth can not be told the truth by anyone, so please don't be one of the many ignorant or proud people and poopoo this book, no one is forcing you to read it nor are they forcing you to believe it, God gave you a free will so use it, its your choice what YOU want to believe. So read it and think about it.

This book is very disappointing. It's a sort of "empty" book, full of cheapest moral consideration et TOTALY lacking any spiritual/religious notion... It has no single reference to catholic teaching (though it's presented as a sort of "catholic book"). It cares some terrible misconceptions about humain psychology and sexuality.

If you read want to have a clear and courageous view of what sexual wisdom is and should be, read a very old but extremly fresh book by the Pope Jean Paul II called "Love and Responsability"

I am a psychobiology and i know for fat that the human kind needs sex, this books refers and talks about abstenence, humans needs sex, they just have to learn how to control their desires that that is it. Don't waste your money on it ok.