title: Christopian Sex: A Treatise on Reclaiming Paradise Via Christian Sexual Ethics
author: Tom Gruber
description: Tom Gruber is the author of the new ground-breaking book entitled CHRISTOPIAN SEX: A Treatise on Reclaiming Paradise via Christian Sexual Ethics. Gruber is a graduate of the prestigious School of Hard Knocks, with branches located in Ohio, Florida, Las Vegas, California, Rhode Island, and Buffalo. Anyone familiar with this school knows that some things can best be learned through experience. So why did Gruber write his book? As a result of a long and difficult journey through a maze of fateful paradigm-shattering events, little by little, he became more and more persuaded that mainstream Christianity had many errors regarding sexual ethics. His search for truth led him to the conclusion that Christopian Sex, which is a controversial sexual lifestyle similar to polyamory, can be an ethical option for genuine Christ-followers now living in the end times. Upon further reflection and research, he gradually became convinced that Christopian Sex was ordained from square one by the wise all-knowing Holy God of the Bible as the totally idyllic lifestyle for Christianity. Although Gruber believes the Bible is the reliable Word of God, and although he also believes that sexual sins like adultery, fornication, and lust are all wrong, he also believes that Christianity has misunderstood both the meaning of these words and the reason behind the rules prohibiting them. Gruber defines Christopian Sex as: "The practice, desire, or acceptance by Christian adults of simultaneously having more than one responsible intimate heterosexual relationship [usually including sexual intercourse, though not necessarily] with the knowledge and consent of every Christian adult involved." Gruber concludes that the inception of this totally idyllic lifestyle was put on the back burner as a direct result of mans subsequent fall into sin, only to be reinstated when redeemed Christians are born again. Perhaps that time is right now. His book deals not only with whats right, whats wrong, and why, but more importantly, whats idyllic. It is written in an easy to understand conversational tone, yet provides enough documentation to satisfy critics and skeptics alike. Though biblically sound, its also very controversial. But Gruber believes truth is vital, controversial or not. Gruber currently resides in Columbus, Ohio. His favorite pastime is chess. He has been a Christian all of his life.
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  John BuggeVirginitasArchives Internationales D’Histoire des
  Idees/International Archives of the History of
  Ideas1710.1007/978-94-010-1644-5_1
  
  # Introduction
  
  John Bugge
  
  The subject of this enquiry is virginity, until comparatively recent times the
  single most essential prerequisite for a life of perfection in Christianity.
  The problems are formidable; one need only consider the regularity with which
  some sort of impulse toward sexual puritanism has made itself felt in the
  course of western Christianity to appreciate the immensity of the undertaking
  that would presume to treat the subject in anything like its entirety. From
  the very beginning the Church as a whole has insisted on restraint in sexual
  matters, but, properly speaking, it is only the institution of monasticism to
  which the ideal of virginity has remained, now as always, directly relevant.1
  This book will therefore seek to explore the meaning of virginity in the
  ascetic phi