The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Sexuality=== {{main|Sexuality and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Law of chastity}} {{see also|Views on masturbation in the LDS Church|Homosexuality and the LDS Church}} Church members are expected to follow a [[moral code]] called the law of chastity, which prohibits [[adultery]], homosexual behavior, and sexual relations before or outside of marriage.{{r|name=Mason2015|q=Observant Mormons... adhere to the 'law of chastity,' meaning that they engage in no premarital or extramarital sexual relations and confine sex only to monogamous heterosexual marriages.|p=1}} As part of the law of chastity, the church strongly opposes pornography, and considers masturbation an immoral act.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/latter-day-saint-sex-therapist-faces-excommunication-over-controversial-views|title=Latter-day Saint sex therapist faces excommunication over views on sexuality|date=April 16, 2021|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420051328/https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/latter-day-saint-sex-therapist-faces-excommunication-over-controversial-views|url-status=live |publisher=[[KSTU]]}}</ref> Law of chastity violations can be grounds for [[church membership council|church discipline]]; resulting penalties may include having access to the [[Temple (LDS Church)|temple]] and [[Sacrament (LDS Church)|sacrament]] revoked.<ref>{{cite book |last= Riess|first=Jana |author-link=Jana Riess |date= February 2019|title=The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPiFDwAAQBAJ |location= |publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|page= |chapter=Chapter 4: Single Mormons in a Married Church β Sex and the Single Mormon |isbn=9780190885229}}</ref> The church discourages romantic dating until around the age of 16.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hoyt |first1=Amy |last2=Petrey |first2=Taylor G. |author2-link=Taylor G. Petrey |date=April 30, 2020 |title=The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6XgDwAAQBAJ|location= |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |page= |isbn=9781351181587}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Frandsen |first=Jake |date=October 3, 2022 |title=What are the Biggest Changes to the New ''For the Strength of Youth'' Booklet? |url=https://www.ldsliving.com/whats-new-in-the-for-the-strength-of-youth-booklet/s/11043 |magazine=[[LDS Living]]}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page