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Sexual Health for Muslims: The Problem with Fear-Based Abstinence

🔍 Why Fear-Based Abstinence Approaches Don't Work 👉🏽 Most of us as Muslims know that sex before marriage is haraam (i.e. religiously impermissible). Yet when we're asked to explain why - from Islamic Spirituality and Psychology perspectives - many of us aren't able to articulate reasons beyond a fear-based, sin, and punishment framework. 💻 Research into outcomes of psychologically fear-based abstinence approaches tells us that it's not working (i.e. it doesn't help delay or prevent sexual activity), both within mainstream and Muslim spaces. Furthermore, Islamic Psychology demonstrates that fear-based approaches actually activates fear within our lower-self (nafs al-ammarah), meaning that we act out of fear, which takes us away from empowerment and God-consciousness, and from actively choosing to align our actions with the sacred ways in which God created us (fitrat Allah). 🙌🏽 My first course, dropping this summer, will be diving into understanding the Quranic Psychology of the Self, and foundations for sexual health as Muslims, including how we understand sexual intimacy. Until the course drops, the following are resources and references for the information I cited in the video: 📚 "Quranic Psychology of the Self" - Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar 📚 "A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World" - Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr 📚 "The Heart of Islamic Philosophy" - William Chittick 📚 "Al-Ghazzali's The Greatest's Struggle" - Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar 📚 Summary of Muslims and Premarital Sex study by Dr. Sobia Ali Faisal (2015): https://muslimlink.ca/stories/muslim-... 📚 Family and Youth Institute (citing the above study, and their own research into Muslim college students and sex): https://www.thefyi.org/infographics/p... 📚 Summary of two studies examining abstinence only sex-education programs in the United States: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu... #muslim #islam #islamic #sexualhealth #sexeducation #marriage #intimacy #relationships #sexualhealthformuslims #sexeducator