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Visiting theolog By Joe Cumbie "Sex and the Search for Intimacy," a speech made Thursday night at USC, caused many students to snicker in the beginning, but no one was laughing when it ended. Dick Purnell, whose three appearances on campus last week were sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ, used wit and humor to convey the message that God believes sex can be beautiful. Defining intimacy as "total life sharing," Purnell said many pre-marital sexual relationships are based on sheer loneliness. He said a poll indicates almost 72 percent of college students said they are lonely. PURNELL SAID most of these relationships end in guilt and shame. "People are so caught up in the physical aspects of love that they never experience the social, emotional, mental or sniritual aspects that also play important roles in the lovemaking process/' Purnell said. "People in today's world want instant intimacy. We are the instant gratification generation," he said. As a result, relationships lose excitement after the partners have "gone all the way" a few times, he said. PURNELL LISTED three types of love: eros (self-centered) love, phileo-brotherly (mutual) love, and agape (unselfishly giving without expecting something back) love, rne tnree torms originate trom me Greek language. He said most people have eros love, but God starts with agape love towards man. Although men should strive to attain agape ffiZP I^^TOI An Ind The Ht Spring Red Di Chana Bread The Tl Rabbit The Sf Wonr n ; j ' s wmi v ii tmamm || #JjgjT# ian says loneline love in their relationships, Purnell said, they are often too self-centered for such love. Purnell illustrated this with an example of a student late for class: "You're speeding down the road trying to get to class and it never fails that you get stuck behind an old dingo ? a person driving around in an old car who never exceeds 10 miles per hour and slows to five miles per hour when he sees a cop. "Naturally, you start muttering things about his ancestry and eternal destination. Then you pull up to. the light and a hot rod...screeches up to a stop with his engine revving and glass packs blaring. "YOU'RE SITTING there in your 1962 Volkswagen saying 'he's not going to get ahead of me.' The light turns green, you floor it and your transmission falls out." This type of self-centeredness is the basic problem of society, he said. God thinks sex is great, Purnell said. "Usually you don't think of God as having such an attitude about sex, but God created sex. He knows everything about it and can provide you with the greatest sexual satisfaction and pleasure that you've ever known ? but in His way," he said. This is why God explicitly reserves sexual intercourse for marriage, he added. "He doesn't want to see you hurt, and he knows what's best for you," he said. PURNELL SAID a noted analyst said virgins don't exist today. "She laughed and said that you're a weirdo if you haven't 'done it' by the time you're 18. Everyone laughed ? but I didn't laugh, and I know that God didn't laugh, either." fSfci_i_ BOO' r PTEN BESTSELLE Iecent Obsession, Colleen Mc Dtel New Hampshire, John In Moon, Bette Bao Lord (Avoi ragon, Thomas Harris (Bantai es, Jackie Collins (Warner $3 Upon the Waters, Irwin Shav iird Deadly Sin, Lawrence Sa is Rich, John Updike (Fawce ladoiv Riders, Louise L'Amou f the Dragon, Robert Daley | University Books "Your Partner in Edi ss a factor in pr vtfr<2 < v>,V" ' ' < ^A*?' it ^ *Sw ?NMP*i :;: : 5 v pfe, ii jtfti&k &$?&?% \W^SS^M^: m \ fjv Dick Purnell, a California theologian, spoke to a intimacy. 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