John - I DO understand what you are saying. I think though (and I could be wrong) that "working with kids" will not "vent pent up sexual energy". It is like venting the nuclear energy in a reactor by screaming loudly. Working with kids is a way to channel the loving part of your desires, to channel your desire to be around boys, to interact with them and to embrace their minds and their hearts. The other piece of the energy though, the sexual desire, cannot be vented by working with kids (if it is there is a problem) though you certainly can learn to ignore it for a while. My choice for this is masterbation. Another person down below talked about having sex with his girlfriend as his form of venting sexual desire. I know of many who vent their sexual desires with their wives, an act which SOUNDS right, but in fact is not. Many people USE their wives as a sexual object. I have seen marriages broken apart (as well as lives) by people who stop loving each other, closing their eyes and dreaming of someone else when they have sex. Many people lose the loving part of their sexual relationship and sex becomes an act like urinating. Not only is this sad, it is ungodly (IMHO). I'm still not sure what God prefers us to do. Maybe he simply prefers us to continue to question our motives so that we do not stagnantly obey a law about sex (sounds like Old Testament...huh :-) You are not alone. Ben |