Download or read book The Chastity Plot written by Lisabeth During and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved, honored, and despised. Obsession with chastity has played a powerful and disturbing role in our moral imagination. It has enforced patriarchy’s double standards, complicated sexual relations, and imbedded in Western culture a myth of gender that has been long contested by feminists. Still not yet fully understood, the chastity plot remains with us, and the metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. Idealized and unattainable, sexual renunciation has shaped social institutions, political power, ethical norms, and clerical abuses. It has led to destruction and passion, to seductive fantasies that inspired saints and provoked libertines. As During shows, it should not be underestimated. Examining literature, religion, psychoanalysis, and cultural history from antiquity through the middle ages and into modernity, During provides a sweeping history of chastity and insight into its subversive potential. Instead of simply asking what chastity is, During considers what chastity can do, why we should care, and how it might provide a productive disruption, generating new ways of thinking about sex, integrity, and freedom.
Download or read book Chastity Is for Lovers written by Arleen Spenceley and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Books for Teens and Young Adults (First Place). In 2012, journalist Arleen Spenceley outed herself as a twenty-six-year-old virgin in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed that went viral. In Chastity Is for Lovers, Spenceley expands on that piece, advocating Catholic teaching on sex and marriage with candor and humor, and without judgment. In her debut book, seasoned journalist and self-professed “happy virgin” Arleen Spenceley offers a mature, funny, and relatable vision of Catholic teaching on chastity for young adults. Chastity Is for Lovers provides perspective on a variety of topics—the difference between chastity and abstinence, how virginity is an affirming and valuable life choice, how the word “purity” can be harmful in ministry settings, how to date well, and why sexual self-control is the best form of marriage preparation—and gives single adults the best possible chance to find true love. She carefully avoids using language that shames readers and instead presents a view of chastity that is joyful and positive.
Download or read book Real Sex written by Lauren F. Winner and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEX. Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens--sex is casual, aggressive, and absolutely everywhere. And everybody's doing it, right? In Real Sex, heralded young author Lauren F. Winner speaks candidly to Christians about the difficulty--and the importance--of sexual chastity. With honesty and wit, she talks about her struggle to live a celibate life. Never dodging tough terms like "confession" and "sin," Winner grounds her discussion of chastity first and foremost in Scripture. She confronts cultural lies about sex and challenges how we talk about sex in church. Her biblically grounded observations and suggestions will be especially valuable to unmarried Christians struggling with the sexual mania of today's culture. Real Sex is essential reading for Christians grappling with chastity and a valuable tool for pastors.
Download or read book Pure Love written by Jason Evert and published by Totus Tuus Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet is the result of countless interactions between Jason Evert and teenagers during his seminars on chastity. It is the ideal complement to classes on human sexuality. In an easy to read question and answer format, Pure Love is a great introduction to the topic of chastity. You’ve heard the questions before: Is sex bad?Isn’t everyone else doing it?What’s wrong with pornography?Aren’t I being good as long as I don’t have sex? These questions and more are all answered in Pure Love.
Download or read book Making Chastity Sexy written by Christine J. Gardner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that uses sex to "sell" abstinence. Drawing from interviews with evangelical leaders and teenagers, she examines the strategy to shift from a negative "just say no" approach to a positive one: "just say yes" to great sex within marriage. Making Chastity Sexy sheds new light on an abstinence campaign that has successfully recast a traditionally feminist idea—"my body, my choice"—into a powerful message, but one that Gardner suggests may ultimately reduce evangelicalism’s transformative power. Focusing on the United States, her study also includes a comparative dimension by examining the export of this evangelical agenda to sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Male Anxiety and Female Chastity written by Rukang Tian and published by BRILL. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Girdle of Chastity written by Eric John Dingwall and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Case for Chastity written by Heather Marie Gallagher and published by St. Francis of Assisi Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty-six short topical chapters, teens and young adults share their questions and real-life experiences about sexual relationships. Their questions range from "How far is too far?" to "What's wrong with cohabitation?" Two questions posed by many people of all ages both within and outside the Church are also treated: "Chastity sounds nice, but is it practical?" and "What do the Bible and celibate men know about sex anyway?" Teens will find A Case for Chastity a readable and informative book, and their parents and teachers, particularly catechists and DREs, will find it an invaluable resource. Paperback
Download or read book Love Obey written by MS Marisa Rudder and published by Randall Caruso. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put the fire back in your relationship! This brand new book is destined to be the most revolutionary, breakthrough, and fastest growing relationship guide of the next 20 years! This phenomenal book is bound to be an International Bestseller! Love & Obey, is now available for the first time ever in trade paperback. In this revolutionary new guide to understanding a Female Led Relationship and how it will fulfill the woman and the man's needs, desires, and behaviors. You will be living together as a happy couple. Men report 97% of the time that they are getting more satisfaction, sexual and otherwise, than ever before since experiencing loving female authority. Known as the "Caribbean Queen," Marisa Rudder provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication by acknowledging their differences and discovering the importance of this loving female authority in a relationship. This type of relationship allows your Alpha Male to be himself while completely 100% devoted, worshipping and obedient to you as his Queen, which allows you both to enjoy a spiritual and sexually blissful relationship. No other Female Led Relationship guide on the market will give you the same level of evidence- based insight sure to help you strengthen, nurture, and live the relationship you've always wanted!
Download or read book The Chastity Contract written by James Hardcourt and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young married couple, a wealthy widow, and an offer that could change their lives. What will they give up to truly gain their freedom? Sex and relationship blogger, Emma Stevens, is conflicted when she receives a shocking offer from a rich and domineering follower, Catherine Argent. What will they trade to have her loving husband's manhood locked away in a tight steel cage, his pleasure denied for an entire year. What's it worth, what will they learn, and what will it really cost them all? The first novella in the Chastity Contract series, Entrapped is an erotic suspense that explores orgasm denial, male and female chastity, and the darker sides of the human mind. Get started with this suspenseful new series today and discover new erotic ideas, and the mystery behind their twisted benefactor's real motivations. Contains drama, intrigue, and lots of explicit, kinky sex. 18+ only. Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Download or read book The Wild Flowering of Chastity written by Dutton Foster and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1973-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious Chastity written by John Main and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good News About Sex And Marriage written by Christopher West and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers an easily readable, down-to-earth and stimulating account of the reasons why the Church's teaching on sex and marriage is true, and, because it is true, 'good news' for people today. The author shows the dignity of men and women as sexual beings made in God's image and likeness, and whom we are to love for themselves and never to use as objects of enjoyment.
Download or read book Chastity written by Nancy van Deusen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures.
Download or read book Chastity written by Erik Varden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'chastity', at first sight, may seem intimidating, something to be dismissed out of hand. It is, however, something very different to celibacy. At a time when religion is in decline in the Western world and when it often seems that the senses have run riot, Erik Varden shows that chastity, the single minded direction of the senses, is a loveable quality and one that affects and beautifies humankind. The terms sexuality and wholeness indicate that to be sexual is to exist in a state of incompleteness longing to be restored. Wholeness points to a healing embrace that we desire so greatly. In Biblical language, chastity is a function of simplicity of sight. We are no longer torn apart by our passions and our desires, indeed they may reach their fulfilment. Body and spirit, male and female, order and disorder, passion and death can move from creative tension to a new kind of wholeness. Varden's text is enriched by a wide range of references to scripture, literature, music, painting and sculpture.
Download or read book Chastity written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Heavenly Father loves you and wants you to be happy today and forever. He has given counsel and commandments through His prophets to help you. One commandment that is vital to your peace and happiness is His commandment regarding sexual purity, known as the law of chastity. The Lord instituted this law from the beginning, and He emphasized its importance to the Prophet Joseph Smith as part of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Obedience to this commandment is a requirement for baptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
