I love abstinence cartoons!

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You know there’s something wrong with the abstinence movement when young people are discouraged from reading parts of the Bible! We were encouraged not to read Song of Solomon, aka Song of Songs, as single people, because it was so sensual. I think it was because the woman is described in a way that Solomon [...]

Last night, I caught up on a few episodes of Law and Order: SVU from season 10. If you watch the show, guess which episode caught my eye?
Here’s the preview for it

Basically, they smashed together a few news stories and added a twist. That part doesn’t interest me. What interested me was the dialogue at [...]

Slapdash is (or was in 2007) a single woman who questioned her previously held views on abstinence. She wrote an excellent post expressing her questions and frustrations with the abstinence-only movement. Here are some highlights:

Basically I grew up with a fear of physicality, and no matter what anybody said about all sins being equal in [...]

I have written several times about virginity and abstinence and how it’s overrated and can actually wreak havoc on one’s life. Feministing wrote a post about Why Everyone Should Have Pre-Marital Sex. You should check it out. Some highlights:
You know, a common misconception people have about my work. . .  is that because I argue [...]

A common theme in fundamentalist literature, as everybody knows, is that of the submissive wife. I think sometimes people think only the most conservative of groups hold to that ideal. While you do see it in its extreme in churches that blame women for every problem in the marriage, you can find shades of it [...]

I felt overwhelmed the first week of my sophomore year in college. An RA on the freshman hall, I had spent the week putting up bulletin boards, helping freshmen get settled, dealing with homesickness (in said freshmen, not myself), and trying to fix all the little things that had broken. All with one arm. I’d [...]

FamilyLife (a conservative “family values” organization with headquarters in Little Rock) posted an article today on the pitfalls of co-habitation. While they brought up some excellent points in the flaws of  living together before marriage, they fell into some traps of their own.
First, the article states:
[A] problem with living together is what researchers call “relationship [...]

I am going to go off on a political tangent/rant here, so please forgive me all who read my blog solely for religious purposes.
Obama has gotten a ton of flak over the past weeks for budget cuts. What do people want? Do they want a better health care system or do they want a bunch [...]