[quote]What you've stated is something of a misnomer{/quote}

No, it is the truth. All atheists have to define morality is subjective opinion. This can be anything from sex being okay for engaged couples to orgies being acceptable. There is no authority to refer to. Morality depends only on majority consensus in the form of the law. What the law defines as acceptable, is considered acceptable. Not all atheists believ the same things, but there is ultimately no right and wrong because it is all subjective.

Pre-marital sex is condemned as a sin something like 20 times or more in the Bible. Those Christians who argue it is not a sin have no scriptural basis for their belief.

{quote}Sex is a natural human act comprable to breathing; longterm abstinence, it has been proven, results in a multitude of emotional disorders, among them phobias and sexual deviancies (such as the aforementioned pedophiliacs). {/quote}

So, you're saying that for a person who is not married, the answer is to have casual sex? This leads to all kinds of problems from HIV to abortion. This kind of lifestyle cannot exist without abortion because modern contraception is not reliable. Not only does this attitude result in HIV and hundreds of abortions every day, it changes sex for an act of love to something done solely for gratification.

Christianssee sex as the ultimate act of unity, of love, and of pleasure. Those who say Christians think it is dirty have not understood our position. There is nothing wong with eating chocolate fudge cake unless you eat it in a libray. Christians take sex as a serious responsibility, both to ourselves and to any children we could make as a result. That is a very admirable position, and if everyone lived by that standard, there would be a great reduction, if not elimination, of abortions and sexually transmitted diseases.

I am single and I know what it's like to be celibate, and it's not easy. But it would be highly irresponsible of me to go out and pick up men to sleep with, not caring whether I pick up a disease or make a baby that I cannot at present give a home too. Those of your camp would say abort the baby and wear a condom. There is no such thing as safe sex. It is my responsibility to myself, any child I could make and to society, to abstain from sex until I find a man who is as committed to me as I would be to him. Only then would it be right to have sex.

Being alone can have psychological impact, there are times when I am very lonely, but going out and having sex with any man who would have me would not solve anything for me, would probably make my situation far worse. I also have no desire or intention to risk my life having sex with a man to whom I would just be a slot in the hole. If a man is not willing to marry me, then he is not committed to me, and it would be wrong to risk making a baby with him.

I don't know any atheist who has as much sense of sexual responsibility as most Christians I know, and what you've said above confirms in my mind what I was thinking - without God there are no moral standards, especially sexual ones. Without God, spread of diseases and abortion will continue because the lifestyle you promote - having sex to gratify a physical urge - cannot exist without those two consequences.