1Abouna Robert Matheus: Sexuality in Youth, an Old Problem, a New Answerthrough a New ChannelPublished in: Indian Journal of Family Studies 20/2 (October 2019)Everybody knows it, however, nobody says anything about it: the sexual passion is extremely difficult tocontrol. The exact moment to learn that for the person concerned and, for his or her educators to intervene, isduring the growing process, especially during the puberty. I firmly believe in the preventive educationmethod of Saint John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians, in which his system states: "It is better to preventthan to cure". The youngsters should be under the vigilant eyes of their loving parents and other educators,who will converse with them, act as guides, and prepare them to the big changes in their minds and bodies. Iagree, this topic is not easy to address; and this belongs first to the parents themselves. Otherwise the childwill learn it from other people, and most probably this might cause permanent damage as a result.Modern life, and the upcoming of the internet has not make this task easy: children have easy and freeaccess to all forms of porn, and also the popularity of chat-rooms increases largely the danger for wrongactions, which will develop in bad habits, which in their turn will evolve in real addictions.I, the author of this article, had a regular presence in chat-rooms, where I have heard lots of stories. To manyyoung persons, mostly boys, I have been exposing God's plan with their sexuality, and have given somepieces of advice to rectify their lives. Almost all youngsters who struggled with their sexuality have beenable to start a more balanced life. Regularly they contact me after a certain lapse of time and tell me howprecious these chats with me have been. It encourages me to continue this apostolate in the peripheries, ashas asked us Pope Francis.Not only do I speak with Christians about these matters, but also with Muslims, Hindus, Agnostics, etc.,using some arguments whi...
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