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Wouldn’t surprise me much if every human being since Adam and Eve, who lived long enough to reach puberty, at some point imagined he or she played some pivotal role in the discovery of sex. As if no one knew or understood exactly what feelings and emotions were aroused ... until last week.

Each person belongs to a generation that reached puberty believing theirs was The First to discover sex: the sudden, unanticipated and powerful arrival of sexual feelings suggests a tantalizing, urgent “newness” to the thing, as if the mechanics of the reproductive process that sparked their arrival on the planet might remain something of a dark, unspoken secret between their parents.

Like mom and dad shaking their hands and asking each other, Whoa how did that happen?!

Which helps explains why teens smitten with love often complain to parents, “You don’t know what it’s like or what I’m feeling!” (Chances are mom and dad do know … they’ve just lived with those same feelings for so long they’ve (hopefully) managed to put and keep them in perspective.)

Everything animals do, from eating, drinking and sleeping is geared toward one purpose: surviving long enough to mate, recreate and keep their genes active in the reproductive pool.

Unless you believe in evolutionary theory, you gotta admit God intended you and I to be a little bit different from that. But because our sexuality is so personal, and our urges so powerful and compelling, we sometimes steer blindly toward what seems immediate and, well … intensely pleasurable.

Porn’s there to fit the bill for immediate gratification. Peer pressure can become intense enough to compromise standards and values. And then there’s the “But we love each other” mindset … and then sometimes "romantic situations" and easy sexual opportunities seem to drop into our laps from nowhere, and cause us to lose sight of the consequences.

God gets to make the rules ... and he designed sex to be a covenant, a life-long commitment and a celebration of a promise being kept, between a husband and wife. Anything else in dating and relationships … anything else (throw in holding hands if you like) inspiring lust amounts to a whopping sin.

No matter how "right" it seems. No matter what Cosmo advises. No matter what everybody else is doing.