When I think about sex, I think about how easily accessible it is.

There’s Google, there’s Twitter and there’s even Tinder. A quick twiddle of your thumbs and you’re lost in a world of lust, a world of sex. One can give you images, one can give videos and words, and one can give you an actual person. Quite scary, actually.

The sanctity of sex has been watered down to swipes on an app. The privacy of sex has been uncensored and elongated on screens. Everywhere you go, it’s blasted in our faces. Even in the simplest commercials and ads, there can be sexual tones displayed before you. All of this constant overloading of sexual imagery and connotations makes it seem as if this is normal, as if I have to just accept this.

I recently read a tweet by one of my favorites Alysia Harris and reading the way she broke down her views of sex and how she’ll teach her kids about the privacy of it, made me want to adopt that method for myself. To shield my eyes from absorbing someone else’s intimacy. From intruding on a sacred moment between two people. From absorbing and translating scenes of sex into forms of want, lust and perversion. By shielding my own eyes and ears, I can allow the Holy Spirit to completely purify my heart, mind, body and soul.

Practical Tips :

Block those sites.

Unfollow certain Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube accounts.

Create an accountability system with people or a person you trust.

Fast forward and/or mute those scenes when they pop on.

Avoid MA/R materials in visual and written forms.

Now, you can surely do what you want. We all have different convictions and since I know myself and the Holy Spirit checks me hourly (more like minutely lol), I know this is an area that I need to take care of before I get caught up. With thoughts to the future, I want to walk in as much purity as possible when it comes to my wedding night.