Carla’s Reviews > Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality > Status Update

“True consent was a rarity in the world in which Christianity got its start. Christianity, we might say, invented consensual sex when it developed a sex ethic that assumed God empowers individuals with freedom.”

“There is a glory hidden in the depths of every person, even the least of us— even ‘defectives’ and ‘morons’ and ‘genetic inferiors’ if you will— waiting to be revealed, a beauty and dignity and power of such magnificence and splendor that, could we see it now, it would move us either to worship or terror.”