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.
 Respect
and
love one another!
Responsibility
for
your partner’s happiness
In the great
ancient religious and ethical traditions of humankind, we find
the directive: You shall not commit sexual immorality! Or in positive
terms: Respect and love one another!
Let us reflect
on the consequences of this ancient directive:
No one has
the right to degrade others to mere sex objects, to lead them
into or hold them in sexual dependency.
Let no one
be deceived: There is no authentic humaneness without a living
together in partnership. Young people must learn at home and in
school that sexuality is not a negative, destructive or exploitative
force, but creative and affirmative. The relationship between
women and men should be characterized not by patronizing behaviour
or exploitation, but by love, partnership, and trustworthiness.
From
the ‘Declaration Toward a Global Ethic’
of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Chicago 1993.
They took
my body from me and used it. Drugged and
raped in her hotel room.
Guardian
Paedophile
network abused 200 children.
Independent
Call girls
to be questioned in cricket scandal.
Observer
Britons face
jail over Internet paedophile club.
The Times
Sierra Leone
rebels practised systematic sexual terror.
Washington Post
Women ‘sold
into sexual slavery’.
Irish Times
Sex trade
enslaves East Europeans.
Washington Post
South Africa
new centre for child sex.
The Times
I million
children are ‘abused every year’.
Daily Telegraph
Domestic
violence explodes. An epidemic of domestic violence is sweeping
Britain’s homes.
Guardian
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