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Related: About this forumThe Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/11/the-warrior-wives-of-evangelical-christianity/382365/The intense focus on sexuality, purity, manhood, and womanhood in certain faith communitiesand its consequences.
EMMA GREEN
NOV 9 2014, 8:00 AM ET
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"Your husband will want sex way more than you do," advises Elizabeth of the blog Warrior Wives in a post called "Wifey Sex Confessions."
"God just made him to think about sex more than you. ... Never demean this about him. Never laugh at him or make fun of him. Accept it as a difference."
Accept it as a difference. It may sound like so much cliched marital advice, but this is a much-discussed idea about sexuality in the evangelical Christian community: Men and women are different.
"There's a lot of concern among evangelical men and women about traditional roles being overturned," said Amy DeRogatis, an associate professor of religion at Michigan State University, in an interview. Her new book, Saving Sex, focuses on the anxieties evangelicals feel about sexuality in American culture. But not other people's sexualitytheir own.
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The Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity (Original Post)
cbayer
Nov 2014
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Faux pas
(14,681 posts)1. Kickin'
folks need to know how f-ed up this is.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Thanks. Really interesting and comprehensive article on this.
The title of "Warrior Wives" (from the blog site) is particularly fascinating, as it appears what these women are warriors against is there own desires and impulses.
rug
(82,333 posts)3. It sounds like an ad for a porn fetish site.
"The Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity"
cbayer
(146,218 posts)4. A lot of what they are doing sounds kind of, er, interesting.
Books on anal sex, costuming and sex toys are very popular and apparently sold on christian web sites and in churches.
Evangelicals apparently have great sex
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except for that women having to be submissive at all times thing.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)5. Be nice when people stop getting bamboozled by this shit.
Mark Driscoll was a symptom, not a cause.