Prominent OBGYN Dr Joe McIlhaney Addresses Porn
What does Dr. Joe McIlhaney say about sex outside marriage?
Dr. Joe McIlhaney is an obstetrician and gynecologist who founded the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in 1992. He served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and on the advisory committee to the CDC director. In his book Hooked, he explains that hooking up is the easy part, but unhooking from the bonds of a sexual relationship carries serious and lasting consequences.
Dr. Joe McIlhaney
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Dr McIlhaney is a prominent obstetrician and gynecologist and the Founder/Chairman of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health, a pro-abstinence medical research organization he established in 1992.
His research is part of why the Conquer Series takes such a science-based approach to recovery.
He served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 1995, he left his private practice to work full-time with the Medical Institute for Sexual Health, as he realized the extraordinary magnitude of the STI epidemic. Since 1992 the Medical Institute has been a leading voice providing medically accurate, research-based sexual health information to diverse audiences, ranging from healthcare professionals to policymakers, parents and youth.
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Dr. McIlhaney is the author of several books including Hooked, where he explains why sex outside of marriage brings along so much psychological baggage: “Hooking up” is the easy part, but “unhooking” from the bonds of a sexual relationship can have serious and lasting consequences.
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What is the Medical Institute for Sexual Health?
The Medical Institute for Sexual Health is a pro-abstinence medical research organization founded in 1992. Since then it has been a leading voice providing medically accurate, research-based sexual health information to a wide range of audiences, from healthcare professionals and policymakers to parents and young people. Its work exists because the scale of the sexually transmitted infection epidemic demanded a serious medical answer.
Is there real medical research behind teaching sexual integrity?
Yes. Sexual integrity is not only a moral argument. For more than three decades the Medical Institute for Sexual Health has produced medically accurate, research-based information on sexual health for doctors, lawmakers, parents and youth. That research gives the church solid ground to stand on when it talks honestly with people about sex, consequences and freedom.
Has sexual health research shaped public policy?
It has. Leadership from the Medical Institute for Sexual Health served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS and on the advisory committee to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The institute was built to speak to policymakers as well as to families, so the findings reach the places where decisions get made.
Why does the Conquer Series take a science-based approach to recovery?
Because the medical research matters as much as the theology. The Conquer Series draws on this body of sexual health research, which is part of why it teaches men what is actually happening in the body and the brain rather than handing them another round of moral pressure. Knowing what you are fighting is what makes the fight winnable.
Why is the sexually transmitted infection epidemic part of this conversation?
Because the scale of it is extraordinary, and it is one of the measurable costs of a culture that treats sex as consequence-free. The magnitude of the epidemic is what drove the founding of a full-time medical research effort in this field in the first place. It is hard evidence that the way our culture handles sex is not working.
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