Los-1: Church and State
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Los-1 is a Hip-Hop Artist and Youth Educator who Raps about healthy choices. His latest album Life Skills, deals with the issues students are facing every day like Violence, Drug and Alcohol Use, Sexual Relationships and Life Decisions. Take a listen for yourself...or have Los-1 perform for your summer camps/youth programs and community events. For Booking Los1 click here!
Others BOLD enough to take on the topic of sexual health from a hip hop perspective like Los are David Mahan and Frontline4Youth in Columbus, OH and Don Juan Carreon in Waco, TX. They've teamed up for events and classroom presentations to bring the message home in a big way for schools and community organizations. These events prove to be life-changing for students all over the country. Los-1 can perform at your teen conferences and community based events, speaking on the topics of Love and Relationships, Personal Faith and Living with Purpose. Click on the Booking Tab to the left... or email contact@los1.com
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When I was in jr. high school I seldom had a teacher hit home on the truth about sex or the consequences after. I had sex education class in which a 55 year old P.E. coach talked over some paper charts of human sex organs and what one uses them for, but it definitely wasn’t cool or hip to sit through and after if was over I still had questions.
I remember giving my virginity up at age 16 to a girl who said she loved me but we didn’t last longer than a year and a half. Life got more complicated afterward. Because of our breakup I slid into feeling lonely and started looking for sexual attention from girlfriends to ease my nightly sorrows. Evening parties turned into drinking contests and drug meetings with close buddies and soon I was hunting for a female companion to cozy up with. I remember how my relationship with my parents changed as I would lie to them about where I was and who I was with after curfew hours. I didn't want them to see how I was changing. I didn't want them to see my blood shot eyes, smell the smoke on my clothes or see how worried I was over possibly being a new father. I had to get my hands on that morning after pill somehow. I had expectations of my partners satisfying me physically and emotionally on a continual basis. Actually life was slowly spinning down hill, my ideas about real love tanked and I was using women as objects of pleasure. It's no wonder why we have so many fatherless kids in America. A lot of men use their girlfriends as pleasure partners but wouldn't dare see those same women as life partners. Same goes for women who use men in the same way. Having sex when I became "ready" not only led to relational confusion, but also led to the misconception that "friends" should have sex casually and worry free, which hardly ever turns out to be the case.
Life hasn’t changed much these days among Junior High and High School students. On top of that, there’s little out there to represent the teen who wants to remain sexually abstinent (even if they've had sex before) until they find a partner willing to be honest about their sexual past and true to their commitment in marriage. Believe it or not those teens are out there, I've personally seen and spoken to them many times in many cities around the country. They want to see happy marriages. They want to know that it's possible without first sleeping with their first 5 go-rounds in order to find compatibility. Our kids are faced with sexual media from every direction. Who is going to make sense of it for them? It seems as if staying in business these days means turning up the heat, visually and audibly. Today’s culture is conditioned to treat sexual intimacy as a "getting to know you” act of friendship or something that strangers do to thank each other for a good night out. Hello? Want to guess why it's tough to have a lasting marriage? As you get used to giving your body to others for several years how easy will it be when you have to stay with only 1 partner for the rest of your life? One gets good at what they practice, in both sides of the equation. Once that "benefit" date is over and real life settles back in, the reality that one could be HIV positive, HIV pregnant or simply facing a broken heart becomes all to factual.
How about this - Avoid the pain and drama, learn how to do the right thing and the best thing for yourself and the people you love the most. Build friendships, get to know people and allow your heart some space to see others for who they really are before you give your affection away.
Responsibility. Integrity. Relationship.
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