Culture
Watch: Spanking Clubs
The city of Kokomo has been in an uproar lately over
a new business establishment that wants to come to town. It’s a spanking
club. We are not talking about spanking children either.
This is an “adult” club, similar to a strip club, except lust is
provoked in a different way than dancing and removing one’s clothes. In
this instance, the sexual desires of both men and women would be aroused
through a legal form of sadomasochism.
If this business comes to town, it would be the first of its kind in the
state of Indiana. That is not intended to be a compliment to “the city
of firsts.”
Among the “works of the flesh” in Galatians 5:19-21 are,
“adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness…” These words are all
broad references to a variety of sexual sins—certainly including
sadomasochism (the sexual pleasure of physically hurting others or being
hurt). Committing these sins will send us to hell (Galatians 5:21).
Christians should “make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its
lusts” (Romans 13:14). In addition, we should stand ready to speak
out against these dens of iniquity.
Ephesians 5:11 says, “...have no fellowship with the unfruitful works
of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of
those things which are done by them in secret.”
Amen.
February 2006