Forbidden Fruit

I just picked up this book to read before we start our Urge 2 Merge (a look at dating, marriage and sex) series in our high school ministry next week.

You can read more about the book here. Here's a brief summary, "Forbidden Fruit reveals the complexity of teenagers' sexual decision-making, documenting that religion affects their sexual attitudes, but that it does not often motivate their decisions to act. Instead, religion often accompanies other "secular" reasons for delaying sex, like concern for safeguarding one's educational future. Forbidden Fruit describes this largely religion-less "middle class sexual morality" in detail, and concludes with a new typology for documenting how religion shapes human action among adolescents and adults."