According to this article from the University of Missouri's student paper The Maneater, it has become increasingly common in certain parts of the Bible belt for Christian teens and young adults to save KISSING for marriage.
This movement even has a name...and a Bible:
But for me maybe the creepiest thing about all of this is that, besides being a total closet case, Joshua Harris, the writer of the Virgin Lips bible, is TOTALLY. FUCKING. HOT.
For a creepy-sexy (but defs SFW) video of Joshua Harris discussing "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," click on the pressy.
This movement even has a name...and a Bible:
"I first heard of the decision to save kissing for marriage - the virgin lips movement, my best friend and I called it - in Joshua Harris' book "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," a Christian relationship guide that advocates courtship and prayerful and deliberate dating with the expressed aspiration to marry, over conventional dating."Dan Savage over at The Stranger's blog has some predictably choice words on the subject--e.g. "What is it with Christians moving the goal posts around?"--as well as a very thorough takedown of the whole premise and a few hilarious quotes from some Virgin Lips practitioners. They are so clearly bursting with repressed sexual energy that their every word and protestation about God and His Love reads like a Penthouse Letter.
But for me maybe the creepiest thing about all of this is that, besides being a total closet case, Joshua Harris, the writer of the Virgin Lips bible, is TOTALLY. FUCKING. HOT.
For a creepy-sexy (but defs SFW) video of Joshua Harris discussing "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," click on the pressy.
(The Maneater, via The Slog)
A white t-shirt peeking out from under a Polo knock-off? [swoon] You've finally found another "Jeremy Piven": a guy that you, bmad, and all of us, can agree is HOT.
Mmmm, I dunno I guess he's hot in that repressed Christian kind of way. You know what they say, closeted ones always cum the hardest! I once worked with a 30 year old Christian man who was still waiting for marriage and was obviously closeted. He also didn't believe we had landed on the moon.
I don't think he's hot...mostly because he's one of those people who'd be out there protesting the gay pride parade, working in politics to ensure that we never get equal rights, and is trying to lead a bunch of young people down his path of denial that any physical affection is bad.
We're HUMAN...we need and crave physical attention, contact, etc. There have been studies done for years about the negative effects of the lack of physical contact. Even in Native American cultures the way that the tribe punished people was not to kill them or banish them, but to let them live amongst them, but ignore them completely...and never touch or talk to them. This was far worse than being killed or sent away.
So no, I don't think this guy is hot. I think he is sick and dangerous, and should be opposed at every turn.
:-)
Well, I respectfully disagree Japan Mo: I would (not) kiss and (not) have sex with this Joshua fellow for as long as he asked me to, no question.
Can't help it that some conservative douchebags are cute!