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October 2019

October 02, 2019

Thoughts on Jerry Falwell: Evangelical Megapastors Are Expected to Boast about Their Hot, Hot Wives

How does a man signal his virility in an evangelical subculture that expects him to...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Fundigelical Advice for Women with Higher Sex Drives

When looking at posts by patriarchal blogger Lori Alexander---in which she berates women for not...

June 25, 2019

Treat Having Sex with Your Husband like it’s Your Job

Just when I thought patriarchal blogger Lori Alexander couldn't go any lower, she went and...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

Men: Women Don’t Enjoy Sex, and We Would Know

From where I'm standing, though, there's something more disturbing at work in many of these...

May 01, 2019

Lori Alexander: No Such Thing as Marital Rape

Lori Alexander is at it again. This time, she's more directly addressing criticism from individuals...

April 2019

April 03, 2019

Belief that Premarital Sex Is Harmful Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophesy

If you believe that premarital sex is sin and that having premarital sex diminishes any...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

Evangelicals Said Having Sex Before Marriage Will Ruin My Life. It Didn’t.

When I reviewed Josh Harris' recent documentary last month, I had two primary criticisms: First,...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

Sexbot Christian Wives

A woman in Alexander's culture who has a healthy libido and wants her husband to...

September 2017

September 05, 2017

I’m Really Really REALLY Glad I Had Sex Before Marriage

Let me tell you where I started out. Back in college, I was so deep...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Evangelicals Are the Ones Obsessed with Sex

I was told that "boys are only interested in one thing" before I even knew...

May 22, 2017

Evangelicals’ Sexual Double Bind

In some sense, evangelicals' approach to sex is caught in a double bind. If they...

April 2017

April 10, 2017

The Many Shades of Coercion

What are we to think of women like Michelle, who tell women that if they...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Jane the Virgin and Purity Culture Norms

I've been watching the CW's Jane the Virgin since the first season was released on...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Obtaining Consent Doesn’t End with Marriage

Even if we decided that sex should only take place in marriage, as Osborne believes,...

September 12, 2016

Statutory Rape in Christian Homeschool Perspective

The sad thing is that my parents often said they were homeschooling to keep us...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Catholics, Evangelicals, and Sexual “Purity”

Yesterday I posted an email from a reader about a speaker at her Catholic high...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

“Terrifying” Josh Duggar Porn Star Allegations Reveal the Depravity of Evangelicals’ Sexual Ethic

Danica's allegations will be interpreted very differently by secular individuals than by those in Josh's...

August 26, 2015

Can You Believe Premarital Sex Is a Sin without Stigmatizing Unwed Motherhood?

There may be some pregnant evangelical teenagers who receive added support from their families and...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Josh was “Just Curious about Girls” and the Rank Hypocrisy of the Duggar Excuse Machine

As someone who went through a controlling and manipulative courtship process and then lived in...

June 02, 2015

How Treating Sexual Thoughts as “Sin” Undermines Relationships

As an evangelical child and adolescent, I grew up thinking that I would marry a...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

Evangelical Christianity’s Patriarchal Alternative to Fifty Shades of Grey

Old Fashioned is a Christian movie alternative to Fifty Shades of Grey, released the same...

February 16, 2015

Fifty Shades of Disagreement: Evangelicals and Feminists on Fifty Shades of Grey

In general, the thing that has evangelicals up in arms over Fifty Shades of Grey...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

Do Traditional Gender Roles Lead to Good Sex? No.

In other words, the author's gendered marriage roles do not by themselves lead to trust...

December 04, 2014

Male Sexual Entitlement, Again

I have found most of the messages I received about gender and relationships during my...

December 03, 2014

“He’ll never by the cow when he can get the milk for free”

And of course, there's also the fact that marriage is no longer a purchase transaction....

November 2014

November 26, 2014

“The reason was ‘sex might happen'”

When you're as obsessed with sex as evangelical and fundamentalist Christians who buy into what...

November 19, 2014

Sex and Respect

So what was it that led me to give up the idea that a man...

November 10, 2014

Sexual Repression, the Duggar Parents, and Mine

So, are my parents sexually repressed? That is not a question I can answer either...

November 04, 2014

“Normal Childhood Sexual Exploration”?

Not all "normal childhood sexual exploration" is harmless and okay. "It's normal for children to...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

Blogger: Affirmative Consent Will End the Sexual Revolution

Today a post from the Patheos family channel, titled "Men: The Sexual Revolution Is Over,"...