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Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity
by Lauren F. Winner
by Lauren F. Winner
I really wanted to love this book, because I adored Girl Meets God and liked Mudhouse Sabbath a great deal. Instead, I was really disappointed.
1) I felt like Girl Meets God was a conversation and it felt like an afternoon with a friend. This was a lecture.
2) I have had sex. I don't feel like this makes me a bad person, a bad woman or a bad Christian. I'm not even allowed to GET married, so any sex I have will be "premarital." I can honestly say I was in love with every woman I've had sex with and I do not regret my experiences. I feel like the real damage is when you have sex with people you don't care about. And honestly, those are my feelings; I certainly don't judge anyone. And I would never presume to sit down with someone and discuss how they're sleeping with too many people. (As we are supposed to do as Christians, according to the author.)
3) The entire book was about heterosexual relationships, so it's not even applicable to me.
4) If I didn't have to read it for book club, I wouldn't have finished.
1) I felt like Girl Meets God was a conversation and it felt like an afternoon with a friend. This was a lecture.
2) I have had sex. I don't feel like this makes me a bad person, a bad woman or a bad Christian. I'm not even allowed to GET married, so any sex I have will be "premarital." I can honestly say I was in love with every woman I've had sex with and I do not regret my experiences. I feel like the real damage is when you have sex with people you don't care about. And honestly, those are my feelings; I certainly don't judge anyone. And I would never presume to sit down with someone and discuss how they're sleeping with too many people. (As we are supposed to do as Christians, according to the author.)
3) The entire book was about heterosexual relationships, so it's not even applicable to me.
4) If I didn't have to read it for book club, I wouldn't have finished.
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Mar 10, 2011 11:44AM
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Reading it for my online book group. I've read and enjoyed two of her other books, but I have some reservations about this one. (Mainly because I have had sex, I have never been married, and I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean that Jesus sees me as a fallen woman and cries because of it.) But I am going to read it and see what I think. :)
I'll look for your review, but I don't think I'll be adding this to my "to read" list any time soon. ;-)
This book and I are fighting, Jenny. We are fighting and we do not like each other. I suspect we're about two chapters away from a bar fight. Maybe less.
I completely agree! Great summary of my main issues.
I'm so glad it wasn't just me! :)
I have to read this for a class or else it would've been returned to amazon lolShe also quotes "Song of Songs" a lot which is ironic. I guess sex is okay with multiple wives.
Well, WIVES, you know. Once there's a ring involved, you can do whatever.
