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The Amish Voice
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P.O. Box 128
575 U.S. Highway 250
Savannah, OH 44874
(419) 962-1515
September 2015
Throughout my growing up years, I was
very much aware that one should not use
the word “sex” in public. Let me go one
step further. I was of the mindset that the
word itself was dirty—right up there with
all the other swear words. Furthermore, it
was my understanding that only moms
and dads were allowed to use the
forbidden word, and then only behind
closed doors. I’m not sure why I felt
that way. Somewhere, somehow,
someone taught me to think that sex
was connected with the dark side and
was sinful.
From the time I was old enough to
carry on a conversation to the time I
got married, I don’t recall any mature
grownup ever sitting down with me and
explaining even the smallest detail about
married life, sex, and pregnancy. No one!
Not even my parents.
As I remember it, when mom got ready to
deliver another baby (she had 14 in all),
we were led to believe that somehow the
Lord just dropped baby Johnny in my
parents' laps. Johnny could have come
from ten different places and we would
not have known! No trustworthy, mature
grownup ever took the time to explain it.;
that is, until I reached my early teen
years.
I was just a youngster when I first heard
the word “sex.” It happened while some
of my first cousins and I were hanging
out behind the barn. My oldest cousin,
Paul, knew more about sex than the rest
of us. As he shared bits and pieces of
what he had heard, we laughed. Each one
of us boys laughed and joked until tears
rolled down our cheeks.
I could go on, but you get the drift. From
the very beginning, my view of sex was
twisted. It was at best half-truth and half-
lie. Had a mature grownup talked to me
about this topic, I would have been ready
to discuss it with truth and confidence.
But wait! Consider if all of us cousins
had learned the truth about sex from our
parents. The barn yard discussion would
never have taken place the way it did.
Let me go one step further. If mature
grownups—specifically our parents—
would have taken the time to sit down
with each one of us and discuss the truth
about sex and pregnancy, we may very
well have looked at sex as the gift
from God that it is. Rather than
sex becoming a joke and a dirty
word, we may have started our
life out looking at sex as
something beautiful and worth
waiting for until we got married.
Instead, everything but that
happened.
It is not my desire to offend anyone;
however, I feel the Lord is leading me to
write about the topic of sex for the
following reasons:
1. God’s Word talks a lot about sex.
If it is important to Him, it
should be for us also.
2. Sex is not a dirty
word, but a gift
that God gave
Fornication, Adultery, and Homosexuality
—Joe Keim