Sex Has a Price Tag: Discussions about Sexuality, Spirituality, and Self Respect

by Pam Stenzel, Steven Case, Rick Bundschuh

Book Overview

In Sex Has a Price Tag, authors Pam Stenzel and Crystal Kirgiss present a frank and honest look at sex, written for Christian girls and guys. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310249716
• ISBN13: 9780310249719
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Zondervan/Youth Specialties
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

A must for every pre-teen and teen

Pam Stenzel's book shines the light of God into the darkness of sex outside of marriage. In an easy to read manner she lays out the facts about the physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences of premarital sex. Reading this book will help pre-teens and teens to understand that God has something much better for them than premarital sex - sex in a lifelong loving marriage relationship.

Excellent book for teens

This is an excellent book to help show teens that waiting until marriage to have sex is best for them. She goes into the health info and clearly lays out the problems teens face when they do not wait to have sex.

The startling Reality

I have always grown up hearin sex is acceptable... But this book revealed to me the startling truth about the medical conditions that can result in many none curable virises, because of constant sexual intercourses. I would recomend this for any parents of teens or any teens who are struggling with, or have questions about sex. Please read, this could be the one book that could save your life.

I give this 100 stars from a parent's viewpoint.

Simply outstanding in format and layout. Your teen will read this. It's packed with straightforward, no-nonsense information. Even with its small size it is worth it weight in gold. This book could save your teen's life & /or their fertility. (The editorial error mentioned above is not in my copy.) If you or your teen get a chance to hear Pam Stenzel speak, don't miss it! She has web site if you want to learn more about her.

Worth the Cost

In the course of my ministry to teenagers, I have read many books on sexual abstinence, God's design for sex, and the terrible consequences of sex outside of marriage. Some are great and others not. Some are candid while others seem afraid to approach the subject head on. Sex Has a Price Tag is a well-written and honest look at the biggest battle teenagers face.Today's students grow up in world where more absolutes are not an accepted reality by many people. As such, any discussions about sexual morality that are based only upon the standard set by the Bible are automatically dismissed by a vast number of people, leaving them to buy into the "if it feels good to me it's ok" lie. In this book students will be confronted with the unambiguous, unequivocal standards of sexual purity found in the Bible, but at the same time the author seeks to reach out to an audience who wants to ignore those truths. The costs of sexual activity before marriage and the reasons it should be avoided are broken into three categories: 1) your beliefs (what you choose to accept about God's design), 2) the wise counsel of others (what other students who did not choose abstinence say), and 3) medical facts (statistical evidence about STD's, teen pregnancy, and the "safe sex" deception. Simply telling students to abstain because of the medical reasons and advice from other people is only telling them half of the story. We shouldn't be surprised the personal experiences of others and medical evidence support the same perspective found in the Bible. An open look at the empirical evidence leaves you at the same standard set by the moral absolute. By combining what they won't refute (medical facts and the relative opinions of others) with what they want to discount (God's Word), the author successfully invites students into the discussion and gives them the opportunity to find the real power to overcome these struggles: God's power.You or your teenager may have no desire to know or serve God. This book won't make you a Christian. But Christians and non-Christians alike will benefit from the practical and understandable discussions and illustrations in this book. In the final sections you'll find some great common sense advice and some relevant truths from Scripture to help in this battle. Please, let this book help you count the cost of sex before marriage so that you can make a wise decision and not pay a terrible price.There is a glaring editorial error at the very beginning of the book. In the introduction, two-and-a-half paragraphs from page seven are repeated on page eight. Don't worry...the rest of the book is fine...go ahead and finish it.