Repentance, forgiveness, and restored discipline is the Christian paradigm, lived daily with innumerable issues other than those sexual, but equally applicable to those sexual. Don t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold. If marriage is one's goal, then regular prayer for God's match-making skills to be sovereign and sufficient, observable and obvious is mandated. Marriage made in Heaven are usually the result of prayers sent to Heaven. Issues in sexuality have personal as well as patient implications.
Personal integrity is one major part of any counseling strategy.
The clinician who knows the sexual dividends of honoring God's moral code is in a strong position to commend it to patients. Whether sexual curiosity, sexual education, or sexual dysfunction is the issue, the physician both as clinician and as lover needs to explore each of the major sexual themes indepth for patient as well as personal benefit. Some patient sexual concerns are specialty specific and residency training should provide answers and treatment plans appropriate to the inquiry or patient complaint. Since the Christian faith teaches that sexual intimacy is reserved for marital intimacy, and since the God that Christians worship is pure love at the core of His Being, married Christians should be awesome lovers since covenental commitment bonds both together in the arms of eros-agape. Medicine is a most seductive mistress, both as clinical challenge in speeding health to hurting patients and as a proud profession conferring status on each practitioner.