By Ben McEachenMonday 23 Sep 2024Hope MorningsRelationshipsReading Time: 2 minutes
To put it mildly: sex dominates so much of our world.
Key Points
- Sex is upheld as crucial to personal happiness, as if happiness cannot be had if sex is not part of your life.
- Happiness, satisfaction and contentment in your life is possible. Even without sexual relationships.
- Listen to the full interview with Bonnie Pue in the player above.
For good and worse, sexual relations and sexuality are frequently upheld as crucial to personal happiness.
As if happiness cannot be had if sex is not part of your life equation.
Bonnie Pue disagrees with that conclusion.
Bonnie and her husband Bryan created The Union Movement to provide a “gospel-centred, holistic approach to the topics of identity, sexuality, and relationships”.
Every month, the No. 1 search that leads people to The Union Movement site is “How can I be happy without sex?”
Sex is upheld as crucial to personal happiness, as if happiness cannot be had if sex is not part of your life.
Bonnie has recognised that married and single people are called to the same sexual ethics but they live them out differently.
However. this approach is not the same as the one Western Society promotes.
“In the last 60 years, there has been such an emphasis put on: ‘if you just express yourself physically, through sexuality, you are going to find complete happiness,'” Bonnie told Hope Mornings from her home in Canada.
“It’s almost like this giant promise that has been made.
“I think a lot of people are realising that promise is not paying out.
Happiness, satisfaction and contentment in your life is possible. Even without sexual relationships.
“So, I think people are starting to ask, ‘How else can I find happiness, fulfilment and purpose?'”
As Bonnie explained to Hope Mornings, such a search is not in vain.
Happiness, satisfaction and contentment in your life is possible. Even without sexual relationships.
Listen to the full interview with Bonnie Pue in the player above.
Article supplied with thanks to Ben McEachen. Ben is Hope 103.2’s Mornings host. Ben was a full-time movie reviewer for more than a decade, including for Open House, The Big Picture, The Advertiser and Empire. Before Hope, he was deputy editor of Eternity News.
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