1. Attitudes to sex KEY QUESTION:
20 July 2018
Salt and Pepper
KEY QUESTION:
What is the purpose of sex in human relationships?
Learning Objective:
Grade A*- A:
Evaluate religious opinions towards sex and justify if you agree or not.
Grade B:
Compare different religious opinions towards sex and use examples to suggest why sex is sacred.
Grade C:
Explain religious views towards sex and decide if you agree if sex should be controlled or celebrated.
Starter Task
Draw a table in your book of all the good and bad things you can think of about sex.

2. Reflecting on stereotypes
Noticing
Reflecting on stereotypes
During puberty, boys and girls become sexually fertile. They have the capacity to reproduce. Study this image and watch the short clip and answer questions beginning with the following:
WHO?
WHAT?
WHY?
WHERE?
WHEN?
HOW? 2

3. Homework “Sex outside marriage is always wrong” Do you agree?
(12 marks)
REM: PEEEL Paragraphs.
Include: Your opinion, 2 Christian opinions and a conclusion. Evaluate your views every paragraph and refer and link back to the question.

4. What is the Christian beliefs about sex?
Making Links
Christian teaching is generally that sex is wrong unless it happens within a marriage.
God intended men and women to live together as married couples but not to live together outside marriage.
All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
KEY WORDS:
Pre-marital Sex
Adultery
Promiscuity
Monogamy
Polygamy
Bigamy
Abstinence
YOUR TASK:
Write A definition for each of your key terms about SEX.

5. Your predictions ALL: MOST: SOME:
TIPS TO SUPPORT:
“Thou shall not commit adultery”
THINK BACK TO fertility Treatment
Your predictions
ALL:
make predictions why some Christians support & oppose sex
MOST:
will use evidence from prior learning
SOME:
apply evidence from the bible.

6. Should sex be controlled?
Listening, Judging and Defending
Should sex be controlled?
St Paul speaks frequently on sexual restraint
Sex belongs within Marriage
Mary Magdalene was almost stoned to death for committing adultery
VOTE
Yes
One of the Commandments:
“Do not commit adultery” = sex outside marriage
Chastity and Fidelity
Sometimes No

7. Is Sex a celebration? Yes Sometimes No VOTE
Listening, Judging and Defending
Is Sex a celebration?
Yes
Gods first instruction to Adam and Eve was to ‘go forth and multiply’. Basically, go and have sex.
Sometimes No
VOTE
Sex is for pleasure
On the 7TH day God saw that everything was ‘good’, including sex
Sex holds a relationship together

8. Is sex a good or bad thing?
Distilling
His lips are red anemone colour, moist with the breath of myrrh.
His arms are as subtle as gold, round and studded with great jewels.
His rod is arrogant ivory, flushed with sapphire blue, and his thighs are marble columns in sockets of pure gold.
Erect, he looks like Lebanon, a king among trees.
But when he speaks it is soft and sweet.
The Song of Solomon
Fact: In the Bible there is a collection of erotic love poems called the Song of Solomon, or the Song of Songs.
Does the Song of Solomon
suggest that sex is a good
or bad thing?
Explain your answer.

9. Divide your page into three equal sections Use the information sheets to fill in the different viewpoints. Don’t forget to include quotes.
Sex should be controlled
Sex should be celebrated
Views of SEX
My Views
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10. Sex should be controlled
Q: How do Christians interpret what the Bible says about sex? Do you agree or disagree?
Sex is good
According to the Bible, God’s first instruction to Adam and Eve was to have sex. The Bible says that when God had finished the Creation, he said everything, including sex, was very good! The Song of Solomon shows us that sex is seen as a pleasure and a gift.
Sex should be controlled
Christianity also teaches that sex belongs within marriage. People should abstain from sex until they are married, and after marriage they should be faithful. Many Christians believe that the purpose of sex is to have children.
How to answer:
Explain the 2 Christian views upon sex and suggest
if you agree or disagree and justify why.

11. “Girls play at sex because what they really want is love.
Read: Reality check: Kids who are given no sense of value
Discuss:
“Girls play at sex because what they really want is love.
Boys play at love because what they really want is sex.”
To what extent is this true?