Sexuality

What’s it about sexuality that
we are afraid to discuss it with our children?

What’s it about sexuality that
we skirt around it and hide it under the proverbial carpet?

What’s it about sexuality that 
we imprison it with numerous religious and moral dos and don'ts?

What’s it about sexuality that
we learn about it informally and impersonally via strangers, social media, books and magazines?

What’s it about sexuality that 
there are so many taboos accompanying it?

What’s it about sexuality that 
it stimulates emotional, volcanic eruptions in our minds and bodies?

What’s it about sexuality that
spurs a billion-dollar industry?

What’s it about sexuality that
animates so many conversations?

What’s it about sexuality that
it’s a hush-hush topic?

What’s it about sexuality that 
electrifies our curiosity?

What’s it about sexuality that
attracts people like a swarm of bees to honey?

What’s it about sexuality that
we condemn its naked and raw manifestations?

What’s it about sexuality that
we casualize it?

What’s it about sexuality that
creates sinners and saints in us?

There’s a Tik-Tok video in which a toddler is born with impaired vision. Upon receiving a pair of glasses  and seeing his parents for the first time, his dull-looking face lit up like a Christmas tree.

Perhaps, our cultural socialisation has gifted us with “inadequate glasses” to see the essential natural beauty of our sexuality. So in response, we demonise, abuse, misuse, create myths about, over-moralise, and hide and turn sexuality into an “it”. 

With a new pair of glasses, we look at and experience sexuality as God does – not as an “it”, but as a person who feels, thinks, and relates. 

“God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good” (Genesis 1: 31).