Sex-positive celibates?

Go Lauren, you go girl...I really like Lauren and what she has to say. 

I got this in an e-mail update from The Revealer.  The Revealer is a publication of the New York University Department of Journalism and New York University's Center for Religion and Media.

Chastity is all the rage: NYT's Alex Williams falls all over chastity crusader Lauren F. Winner and her new book, Real Sex, in the paper's Fashion & Style section. "She wears retro cat's-eye glasses, has four tattoos, weaves references to the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu into casual conversation and sips Côtes du Rhône over lunch." Williams goes on to count the ways in which Winner (an interesting writer, despite the evidence of this profile) is rocking the evangelical world because she talks openly about the fact that sex feels good. As Ms. Winner, an Orthodox Jew before she became an evangelical might say, oy. Evangelicals have been openly discussing sex for the last couple of decades. But The Times sees evangelicals as trendy, and it needs a movement diva -- a "personality" -- around which to re-organize the world. Secularists who have sex outside of marriage? So last year. Sex-positive celibates? Hot. To hell with journalism that asks a smart cookie like Winner some tough questions. The Times has found a new radical chic -- evangelical conservatism.

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Comments

[timsamoff]

> Evangelicals have been openly
> discussing sex for the last
> couple of decades.

Ummm... Depends on the circles, me thinks.

[Mike]

Tim, you mean you have been missing out? I have been talking about sex for the last couple of decades but not really in a typical evangelical setting.

[timsamoff]

No, not missing out... I've just noticed that some circles are talking openly (a minority), while the majority still act like puritans. I think it is easy for the minority to get caught up in ourselves enough to think that everyone thinks the way we do, but it's just not true.

Just over two years ago, my wife and I were being councelled for marriage by two friends from a Southern Baptise upbringing... When we got to the subject of sex, they laughed, told us to read Song of Solomon, and then said, "Well, you know what sex is all about, right?"

It seemed kind of funny to us at the time, but now I look at it as quite a disservice.

I'm glad there are churches like ours who are not afraid of the subject, but I hardly think I can say that "evangelicals" have yet embraced the subject.

[Mike]

Hey Tim, I hear you. I was kiddin' about you missing out. I totally agree with you. We need to get real about sexuality. I heard Lauren speak at the Emergent Conference. I am really proud to have her represent us. She will most likely be crucified by mainstream Evangelicals, she is a little too honest. You should give some feedback to your marriage counselors lest they continue to flippantly dismiss a crucial part of what they should be doing. I appreciate you, my friend.