Week 12

I've stopped my "Week (no.)" posts. After a while, it just felt lame. But after an intense and short period of projects and meetings, I can finally breathe a sigh of relieve and say, it's week 12, happily! In my short time in SMU so far, every term just gets more interesting than the last. Being a sophomore is way cooler than being a freshman. Haha.

During the week, I sat through a very interesting presentation in one of my classes. It was about why some cultures are more open to pre-marital sex. The group presenting had some really interesting speakers! There was a charismatic American and two Indians. Naturally, they compared US and India and Scandinavia, dubbed as the sex city of the world. [NOT THAT Scandinavia is a city!]

I found one of their hypothesis regarding marrying age pretty interesting. Looking at average marrying ages, you can predict a pattern. Countries that experienced higher marrying ages were found to be more prone to practising casual/premarital sex. In the words of one of the Indian speakers, 'If you know you'll get married at like 23, and you're 17, hey, why not just wait another 5 or 6 years and then you can get sex. But if you know you'll get married in 15 years at the age of 33 to 35, you'll be like, why wait? Just experience it now while I'm 17.' I found this particular argument pretty convincing. Don't you?

In any case, the Bible has very clear commands concerning sex outside marriage. No doing IT, and why not? In Joshua Harris' Boy Meets Girl, he explains that God has such a rule not because he's legalistic. Rather he loves us so much and wants the best for us. The best sex is therefore one that is within marriage. :)