Until recently, i never quite understood how fornication is much different from any other bad sin ... like snorting coke.

After all druggies and drunkards do alot of damage to their own bodies - and to the bodies of others (like the child, who doesn't know from one day to the next if there will be food, or a halfways safe place to sleep).  So, how is a casual fling any worse than substance-hogging (addiction)?  Pondered this, here and there, for awhile.

But then it began to dawn on me.  Paul the Apostle, per the Holy Spirit, says point blank: "Flee fornication."  Doesn't sound like he was just chit-chatting with his pals in the break-room.  That's the first sentence of I Corinthians 6:18.  The Scripture continues:  "Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body."  

In short, okay, the Bible says it, THAT settles it!

But yeah, still pondered...how's doing the sleaze any worse to the body than drinking half a bottle of jack?   Uhm, by the way, Christians are supposed to THINK about the Scriptures they read - this isn't some algebra test to cram (then forgetabout).  Well, for starters, when people are doing the sleeze, they think nobody else is in the room - unless they're both into ... ick.  Har-de-har...there's an audience all around the ... wherever they're doing it ... ew!  Devils love the show, waay more than mere humans live, breathe and eat the latest installment of ... whatever mindless sit-com/drama.  See Proverbs 7 - where young men are warned to not even go near she-players.  "For she hath cast down many wounded:  yea, many strong men have been slain by her.  Her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death."  (Last two verses of Proverbs 7).  Oh, and by the way, the word "hell" is mentioned several times throughout the Old Testament - once, if not twice, in the Book of Job.  

Still pondered.  Have, however, recently learned that forni/p0rni etches mental maps, more jagged and deep than booze or drugs - which are damaging enough.  Male players will pump and dump, and not think twice; female players think they're playing along, but are far more prone to fall for the guy (who's just there for a pit-stop).  For the gal, has something to do with brain-chemistry - some physiological things we can control ... up to a point, that is.

Needless to say, i don't have a medical degree.  Yet, it's common enough knowledge that syphilis can seem to go away on it's  own.  But it doesn't.  It comes back, years later - viciously.  Okay?  What other VDs hide out, for ten twenty years...and do they manifest themselves into something vicious, but so seemingly unrelated?  Are there medical things that even doctors haven't yet connected the dots?  Don't know.  Am not a doctor.

But yikes, the cigarettes are unhealthy enough, don't want to add to the what-el-make-ya-sick list, thankyouverykindly!