Every young woman's battle : guarding your mind, heart, and body in a sex-saturated world / [print]
Shannon Ethridge and Stephen Arterburn.
- Colorado Springs, Colorado : WaterBrook Press, (c)2004.
- xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Daring to be truthful -- Back to the blueprints for sexuality -- Building lives of sexual integrity -- Myths that intensify our struggle -- Fueling your own sexual fire -- Making friends with the mirror -- Doing a reality check -- Breaking the cycle of abuse -- Pursuing power -- Dressing to impress -- To flirt or not to flirt -- Winning the mental battle -- A healthy starvation diet -- Mastering the media -- Winning the emotional battle -- Good to go! -- Proceeding with caution -- Knowing where to stop! -- Winning the physical battle -- "Technical" virginity -- Sex without strings -- But we're in love! -- When the time is right for Mr. Right -- Becoming Mrs. Right -- Falling in love with Jesus -- Afterword: If you desire other women.
TThis counterpart to the award-winning Every Young Man's Battle can help readers learn how the sexual battle begins in the heart and mind, understand the hunger for attention from guys, recognize and avoid the potential pitfalls awaiting young women on the journey toward adulthood and possibly marriage, find out how the media, novels, fashion, internet chat rooms, and body and beauty obsessions influence sexual choices, and what you can do about it. Whether protected emotionally and sexually, robbed of purity, or given in to temptation in some way, this book can help readers achieve or reclaim sexual integrity. It is also a guide through the temptations and pressures of young adulthood and demonstrates life can be lived to the fullest, without regrets.
9781578568567
2004002068
Young women--Religious life. Young women--Conduct of life.