Infatuation and physical conquest replace love. Society's protectors become predators. Suspicion replaces trust. Little children are warned about adults. Adults, in turn, are hesitant to greet a little child on the street for fear of being misunderstood.
Men are suspicious of other men, and women of both men and women.
Families have been turned upside-down because of decades of secret sexual abuse. Husbands and wives struggle with the memories and scars of prior sexual partners. Pastors, priests, counselors, and child-care workers all work under a cloud of distrust that has been created by countless instances of sexual misconduct by others in their profession. These are some of the reasons that God cares about our sexuality. But there are deeper issues as well, and in the remaining pages we'll take a closer look at why the Bible makes such an issue of our sexual behavior.