Purity and self respect

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Hi, I’m trying to help my daughter, and she has to have a list of ten questions about God’s commands regarding purity and self respect, and about how these virtues can be integrated into the daily life of a teenager. Thanks for any and all help! 🙂
 
We have the first three questions…
#1, What does it mean to be chaste?
#2 How can I respect myself? And
#3, How does how I dress affect others?

Can anyone help us think up 7 more? brain not working :confused:
 
If I try to get others to see me as sexually desirable before they even know me, what am I looking for? What am I likely to actually gain or lose? Compare and contrast with other goals I might have.
 
What is the difference between sexual desire within marriage and sexual desire outside marriage?
 
How is the desire to be chaste or modest different from the desire to be sexy or to be envied? Which desires leave me more vulnerable to sales pitches? Which leaves me more open to hearing my call from God?
 
These are brilliant, thank you!! I don’t want to go with ‘sexual desires’ or so forth… my daughter is young… (just turned 13, and is special needs) she knows ‘some’ but not really old enough to know ‘too much’ quite yet… :o She’s very innocent.
 
#8 What is something I can do when others try and persuade me into sinfulness?

#9 How can I handle trying to fit in, with friends and peer pressure? Can I have friends and do what God wants too?
 
#1, What does it mean to be chaste?
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Being chaste means respecting yourself and basically being sexually inactive. It means living in a way that God would want regarding human sexuality.
#2 How can I respect myself? And
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You respect yourself by acting like a lady. You don’t give someone something just because they are nice, ask nicely or try and guilt you into it.

How you dress can be a reflection of how you feel about yourself. Do you dress (or act) in a way that demands special attention? Or are you happy with who you are?
#3, How does how I dress affect others?
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I would say that in North America, most people probably dress with the weather in mind. Yet, there are people out there who will dress in such a manner to draw attention.

This can be good or bad.

The bad is obvious—women dressing inappropriately hoping guys will notice (we do, trust me). But also if you are an older kid, younger kids look up to that kind of stuff and may want to emulate that same behaviour.

But it doesn’t have to be bad.

Some people with social anxiety are told to wear an odd necklace or something like that so that a person will notice, comment on it, and start a conversation.
 
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