Chapter 6 treats young adulthood as a once-only flowering season. Beauty, attraction, curiosity, and emotional intensity all surge during this period, making it full of promise and full of risk.
The chapter does not dismiss those impulses as meaningless. It treats them as powerful energies meant to lead a person toward true love and true marriage. But when youth becomes self-centered, that same energy turns dangerous.
This gives the chapter a pastoral edge. Young people do not only need restriction; they need formation that can help them understand the holiness and direction of what they are feeling.