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Tag: Chastity

  • A Children’s Book on the Dignity of the Body: an Interview with Nica Katigbak

    Have you heard about Theology of the Body? If you haven’t (or even if you have), you’re in for a treat. PinayVoices recently caught up with author and illustrator Nica Katigbak, who wrote a TOB book for children! Why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself, Nica? I’m Nica Katigbak. I graduated from De…

  • Abstinence or Chastity Education and the Prevention of HIV/AIDS

    My friend AJ posted this: My other friend Dr. Ryan Borja Capitulo (an OB-Gyn) commented this: Here’s what’s going on. The studies that say abstinence education does not work, if you look more closely, are usually funded/controlled/conducted by those who DO NOT WANT abstinence education taught in schools. So doon pa lang, meron nang confirmation…

  • When Condoms Fail: An Alternative Approach To HIV Prevention

    by Anna Cosio. Although the Philippines currently has one of the lowest HIV prevalence rates in the world at 0.10% and ranks 108th according to CIA 2016 data, there has been a reported surge in the number of cases recently.[1] But instead of resorting to knee-jerk reactions, let us consider what could have possibly caused…

  • Is living-in now a good idea because ‘it’s 2017’? A Reply To Nadine Lustre

    by Anna Cosio Yesterday, I stumbled upon the news about local actress Nadine Lustre addressing circulating rumors that she was already cohabiting with her boyfriend James Reid. She neither denied nor confirmed the news and implied that it should not even be a big deal even if the rumors were true. “It’s 2017… If that…

  • On Cassocks and Conduct and Modernizing the Church

    by The Former Sapphist.   A continuation of a series, until the lewd #metroseminarian poster is removed. It has been about a week since I published my displeasure with the controversial metro seminarian photo. Much has happened since. People were throwing ad hominems from both sides — friends of the seminarians, friends of the laity, friends of…

  • On Metro Seminarians, Cassocks and Conducts, and Modernizing the Church

    by The Former Sapphist THESE ARE THE KINDS OF STUNTS that give millennials the reputation they have. After a long night of struggling to get some sleep because of the unforgiving heat, I woke up to this photo in my Facebook inbox. Two friends had sent me messages to get my insight on it. I…

  • What Not to Say to a Repentant Homosexual

      by The Former Sapphist. It’s been a good 18 months since I renounced homosexuality. For someone who had exhibited homosexual tendencies since the age of reason, I will need to make the most of the rest of my life to go on this journey to healing. One might expect that there must have been…

  • Rising from the Depths of Pornography

      A guest post. Let me tell you a side story of my life… As a child around five or six years of age, I was inadvertently exposed to visual pornography by careless adults — including my alcoholic father, who watched videos thinking I was already fast asleep on the couch — or who left their magazines just lying…