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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.
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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."
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