How many Christians actually wait until marriage...

What everyone wants to know but doesn't dare to ask...

00:00 the question
00:37 why Christians should wait until marriage
06:34 God isn't opposed to fun
09:55 how many Christians actually wait until marriage
12:00 a Victoria's Secret model who waited

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Sources:
[S1] Schmitz, Made for Love (2017)
[S2] 1 John 4:8
[S3] Genesis 1:27
[S4] Matthew 22:36-40
[S5] 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
[S6] Genesis 1:27 icw. Genesis 2:18
[S7] CCC 1641, quoting Lumen Gentium 11 § 2 and Lumen Gentium 41
[S8] St. Pope John Paul II, Theology of the Body (1979-1984) p. 25
[S9] eg. Smith, Why Humanae Vitae Is Still Right (2018) p. 203
[S10] 1 Corinthians 13 : 4-8
[S11] CCC 2205 icw. CCC 2363
[S12] St. Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio (1981) 13, last paragraph
[S13]    • The Secret about Sex and Holiness  
[S14] CCC 2370; Smith, Why Humanae Vitae Is Still Right (2018)
[S15] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
[S16] John 2:1-12,    • Gönn dir - Johannes Hartl  
[S17] St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life (1609) Part III, Chapter 31
[S18] Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married (1951) chapter 18
[S19] Lewis, The Four Loves (1960) p. 134-136
[S20] Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married (1951) chapter 1
[S21] eg. https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resou... beliefs about premarital sex: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-rea...
[S22] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
[S23] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
[S24] Proverbs 24:16 (icw. Ecclesiastes 7:20)
[S25] Matthew 7:13-14
[S26] Ephesians 2:8-9; John 15:5
[S27] Luke 11:9-13 icw. Philippians 4:13
[S28] warning: this article features immodesty https://www.gq.com/story/adriana-lima...

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[I2] St. Roch's Church, Vienna; altar painting by Peter Strudel (1960); private image taken on Christmas 2024
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