Gender & Sexuality
Chastity
God's commandment that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between a man and a woman lawfully wedded as husband and wife.
What's at issue
God's commandment that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between a man and a woman lawfully wedded as husband and wife. Sexual morality before and within marriage; abstinence from sexual relations outside marriage; the spiritual and relational consequences of violating this law.
Where it appears in the Proclamation
Reading
- Can I Experience Same-Sex Attraction Without Making It My Identity?
- A Latter-day Saint Woman's Story: I Wanted the Lord More Than That Life
- Agency, the Body, and the Soul
- Chastity and Calamity: What Paragraph 8 Connects
- Consent, Agency, and What Sexual Intimacy Is For
- Desire, Waiting, and What Marriage Changes
- Governing Sexual Feeling
- How Do I Set Physical Boundaries Without Making Dating Awkward?
- I Keep Struggling With Masturbation. How Do I Actually Stop?
- If We Both Consent, Why Does God Care What We Do Sexually?
- If We Love Each Other, Why Does Marriage Make Sex Different?
- If We Really Love Each Other, Why Wait Until Marriage?