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Title: Bait-and-Switch
Review: The author starts out announcing she's going to give us an informed, world-wise view of a Christian sexual ethic. It never happens. It's a little objectionable to get this book from an author who admits she slept her way through college and much of grad school and has been married a grand total of 3 and a half months. She just gives us the old Pauline fear of sex in a new guise. Her world-view is basically pre-modern and pre-scientific: I agree that sex is ethically clearly meant for marriage, but she wakes up all the old neurosis-inducing crap about the evils of masturbation, immodest clothing, etc, etc. For a scholar of religion, she knows shockingly little about the Bible: she reads Genesis as literal and doesn't know the difference between letters written by St. Paul and those written in his name. And how is it that she can write a book in the early twenty-first century and not mention gay people or lesbians even once? A completely ignorant performance.
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