Growing up in the i980s, in school during sexual education we repetitively heard one of our teachers say, "There's no such thing as safe sex even with the protection in the use of a latex condom." Instead, our teachers emphasized and encouraged that the only way to have safe sex is not to have sex at all. 

Growing up in a Catholic Religious culture and faith-based, I knew sex was a blessing, reserved for the wedding night. It was and I'm sure it still is a formal practice between the bride and groom. Everyone expects to consummate the marriage heavenly.

So that stuck with me thanks to a combination of academic upbringing and my family's religious and cultural dynamic and fostered examples in my family. I witnessed my uncles formally ask their spouses' hand in marriage and host their wedding in a religious Catholic Church with many guests, they've remained solid in their eternal promise to their spouses.

Very traditional outcomes. Many in my generation got married, at an early age and co-created, I'm one of them. Today, I stand by what was ministered to me early in my childhood and preteen years, abstinence is a blessing and a healthy estate.

There's nothing wrong with chastity and remaining abstinent from sexual activity until marriage. I have a feeling, and I know the right time will happen with the right person designed just as intended for me and he won't be just any man he will be my God. I know He is my husband in Spirit.