Red Sex, Blue Sex: Evangelicals and Sex

[ShadowBoxing]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/03/081103fa_fact_talbot?printable=true

Interesting article on sexuality in the Evangelical/Conservative sub-community. Certainly lines up with my personal experiences as an outsider in a very Christian college.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

From the above article...

Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news. And the social conservatives in “red states” generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teen-ager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion.

Double standards on both sides...that's modern-day American politics for ya.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I realize the article is a little long, but worth the read for those who do.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I find the issue of abstinence in the Christian communities pretty fascinating myself. I remember in college if you wanted to get laid, and you were smart about it, often times the easiest girls were the ones with chastity vows.