The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a single,
undeviating standard of sexual morality: intimate relations are proper
only between a man and a woman in the marriage relationship prescribed
in God’s plan. Such relations are not merely a curiosity to be explored,
an appetite to be satisfied, or a type of recreation or entertainment
to be pursued selfishly. They are not a conquest to be achieved or
simply an act to be performed. Rather, they are in mortality one of the
ultimate expressions of our divine nature and potential and a way of
strengthening emotional and spiritual bonds between husband and wife. We
are agents blessed with moral agency and are defined by our divine
heritage as children of God—and not by sexual behaviors, contemporary
attitudes, or secular philosophies.
--David A. Bednar, We Believe in Being Chaste (Ensign, May 2013)
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