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Real Sex by Lauren F. Winner
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Dec 10, 2007

it was ok
Recommended for: high school kids in mainstream Church youth groups and their pastors
Read in February, 2008

An interesting book on chastity and why it's important in a Christian context. She makes some excellent points about community and the fallacy that we are as autonomous as we think we are. However, she fails to critique marriage as an institution at all (and I am positive her academic background would have allowed her to do so). Because her stance is so firmly "wait until marriage" this also excludes any discussion of on-heterosexual relationships. She never explicitly states that this is her hard and fast reading of Christianity, so if you are a more liberal Christian then you will likely be disappointed with Winner's analysis. I will give her credit for critiquing the general Church's lack of nuance around sexuality and their bland abstinence-only rhetoric.
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