1) Healthy sexuality means having a healthy view of being male or female (physically, emotionally, spiritually, sexually).

2) Healthy sexuality means believing God made you to be a sexual being, not in the sense of having sex all the time, but in the sense of feelings, emotions, desires, and lusts, even.  (For Biblical examples here, consider Paul, or Jesus).

3) A healthy sexuality means awareness that sexuality is part of our humanity. Sexuality is what allows us to experience the likes of attraction, beauty and femininity/masculinity.

4) Healthy sexuality means healthily tending to your desires. “Desire” is sometimes described like “thirst.”  We all get thirsty and we’re all free to drink a glass of water, but the problem arises when we don’t know how to hear our thirsts and either dehydrate ourselves altogether, or drink too much—either one has the ability to kill us. Having desires isn’t a bad thing (and could actually be argued as a good, Godly thing); it’s how we handle and direct our desires that’s key.

5) Healthy sexuality means having a healthy spirituality—refreshing to be around and connecting us to our God-imaged whole.

6) A healthy sexuality is about being able to feel a desire, or recognize a longing, definitely sexual ones, and explore with it God—i.e. pray about it/them. “What might you be inviting me to here, Lord, or showing me about my longing, or dissatisfaction?” Furthermore, am I okay even admitting that I have desires and longings that are out of my control?”