The Five Senses of Attraction: The Power of Waiting to Touch

Nov 21, 2025    Stanton Petersen

We’ve arrived at the final, and perhaps most intense, sense in our journey: The Sense of Touch. Every embrace, every expression of physical intimacy, is loaded with passion. But unlike the other senses, touch comes with a severe warning: it must not be prematurely awakened. So today, we look at the most famous passage on Christian dating to understand why engaging in physical passion outside of marriage is like trying to start a powerful fire without a furnace, the passion is real, but the result is almost always disappointment.