Like Straw in Fire

“Many parents try to teach their sons about sexual self-control after sexual temptation becomes an issue. But sexual self-control is just one species of the genus ‘self-control.” Sexual self-control is simply a subset of self-control . . . When sexual temptation first arrives, the necessary response of self-denial must not be an entirely new concept. If parents indulge a little boy’s emotions, his whims and his tantrums, then what is going to happen to that young man when he becomes consumed with sexual desire? He is going to vanish like straw in fire” (Her Hand in Marriage, p. 40).