Does God Want Me To Be Sexual?

“I was raised in a religious conservative home. Pornography was sin, sex outside of marriage was sin and only for the marriage bed. My dad never talked to me about my body or being confident in it. We were directly taught to be modest but indirectly we were taught shame of ourselves and our bodies. Taboo like nudity’s constant association to sex have riddled our minds with a lack of confidence in our own bodies. Of course this negativity is only doubled down on by the perceived perfect body images of stardom, Hollywood, pornography and marketing. It wasn’t until I was nearly 30 that I became confident and happy with my own body and only recently did I become confident with (as funny as it is) my chest hair. With most of the religious from my generation being raised with skewed sexuality, how do we raise our children with confidence in their bodies and a proper perspective of nudity and sex while still adhering to scripture’s mandates?”