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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim, Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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This month, The Awesome Marriage, we're talking hashtag awesome marriage. This month,

Awesome Marriage, we're talking about culture traps that can affect your marriage. Culture influences all of us. But as Christians, we often need to fight some aspects of culture

to live life in God's way and his way. So God's kingdom is radically upside down from the

world, right? And so all month long,

we're going to be focusing on common culture traps that can often plague marriages. Today we're

going to be talking about a really sensitive issue, but one that is probably the biggest

culture trap and the biggest lie today, which is sex is the ultimate. So Dr. Cam,

where do you see culture saying and conveying that sex is the ultimate,

that it's the end-off, be-off?

It's such a good question. I was thinking through. I think the question I'd rather ask is,

where is it not? Because ultimately in our culture, it's almost everywhere you look.

I mean, even places when you're conscious of it that you, I think,

as we've been numbed a little bit, that you don't even think of it, but it's there all the time.

I mean, it's sex sells, so advertisers use it all the time. And products, you wouldn't even

think they would use sex as a selling tool in it, but it just shows the power of that. They wouldn't be using it if it didn't work. And so I think the whole idea of that sex is important or it's the most important thing

is all around us, just everywhere.

Yeah, I agree.

Nils, do you have anything to add, especially coming from like a marketing standpoint?

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