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06:32 pm November 29th, 2006
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Evangelical sex clubs
Last week I got a call from Conversio Verium, Columbia University's BDSM Club, when they discovered that a Daily News reporter, Douglas Feiden, had sat in on two of their workshops without identifying himself. I did an interview with old Doug and knew that the word "balanced" was not anywhere on the horizon.

But I didn't realize the resulting article would be so laughable. It's here - Doug is shocked! shocked, I tell you! that college students are having sex. He also created a quote for me – "Basically, what they're doing is S&M 101" – that's mainly offensive for being so trite.

Actually, the BDSM club came off as one of the tamer sexual offerings that Columbia University has to offer. I figured this story was heading for a quick death, but Ann Coulter had to jump in to beat the corpse. I expected outrage from her, but all Ann does is giggle inanely and jab at "losers" who have to join a sex club to get sex.

Her most priceless quote: "This has been well documented. Christians have more sex, better sex, more sexual satisfaction...you want a sex club, become an evangelical."

Oh, really? Is that the Religious Right's new rallying cry? Join us and get lots of sex? Seems to me the first thing the Evangelical Sex Club should do is stop telling everyone else that the way we want to have sex is wrong. Then let the orgy begin!

Thanks for the tip, Dov! John called and let me know you'd posted the Fox blurb.
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rogueboi From: [info]rogueboi Date: November 29th, 2006 11:45 pm (UTC) (Link)
I commented in another journal that Mr. Feiden must never have read about the 60's, nor seen the musical Hair - his head probably would have exploded if he had.

But the evangelicals are the *truly* kinky among us - there's an article in a recent Economist that describes the new phenomenon of the "Purity Ball," where young (10-12 year old) girls dress up in their fairy-princess finery, and go out to these dances with their fathers as their dates, where they are given pretty rings to wear on their hands, as stand-ins for their future wedding rings, and they pledge their purity to their papas until they "give themselves as gifts to their husbands on their wedding nights." Perverse, I tell you! Kinky, kinky sinners, all!
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susan_wright From: [info]susan_wright Date: November 30th, 2006 02:45 am (UTC) (Link)
Amen, Brother Rogueboi!
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rogueboi From: [info]rogueboi Date: November 30th, 2006 02:49 am (UTC) (Link)
I think we should host a purity-ball-slash-tent-revival. Full immersion baptisms and everything.


Immersion in what, exactly, is a different story...
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From: [info]polypolyglot Date: November 30th, 2006 03:09 am (UTC) (Link)
Immersion in what, exactly, is a different story...

Hot cooking oil, a la Watchmen, for the hypocrites.

Jello or pudding for the non-hypocrites ;)
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grandmofhelsing From: [info]grandmofhelsing Date: November 30th, 2006 01:28 am (UTC) (Link)
She totally plays off the dominatrix look to move her poorly written books.

I notice this is the tactic taken by many conservative female pundits. Of course, whether this says anything about their audience is just a guess. (As a libertarian, the conservative dominatrix thing works on me only half the time. ;) )
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susan_wright From: [info]susan_wright Date: November 30th, 2006 02:46 am (UTC) (Link)
What does it the other half of the time?
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grandmofhelsing From: [info]grandmofhelsing Date: November 30th, 2006 03:02 am (UTC) (Link)
The other half of the time, I think they need a spanking because they've been very, very bad. And not good bad. And not a good spanking.
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susan_wright From: [info]susan_wright Date: November 30th, 2006 04:13 pm (UTC) (Link)
That might be Ann's secret masturbation fantasy...
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grandmofhelsing From: [info]grandmofhelsing Date: November 30th, 2006 01:24 am (UTC) (Link)
Ann Coulter had to jump in to beat the corpse

And now we know what her kink is. ;)

Of course, given the number of swingers clubs here in the Bible Belt, I fully believe there are a lot of Christians having a lot of sex — just not the kind of sex Ann Coulter imagines.
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susan_wright From: [info]susan_wright Date: November 30th, 2006 02:48 am (UTC) (Link)
I agree - I saw my first Christian BDSM website in the mid-90s. There's some seriously religious kinksters out there.
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peregrinejohn From: [info]peregrinejohn Date: November 30th, 2006 04:52 am (UTC) (Link)
Ah, crud. Ya beat me to it.
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rosebloodrain From: [info]rosebloodrain Date: November 30th, 2006 01:44 am (UTC) (Link)
She's relentless in her loud opinions that some people seem to pass off as truth. I didn't even know there was a bdsm club anywhere. I think it's neat they have that. In Columbia Uni. no less.
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susan_wright From: [info]susan_wright Date: November 30th, 2006 02:50 am (UTC) (Link)
Oh yeah, Conversio Verium has been around ten years and it's a great group. There was one at NYU but it's gone now.
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jaspamaster From: [info]jaspamaster Date: November 30th, 2006 04:14 pm (UTC) (Link)
I heard that it had been kinda rediscovered and restored at NYU but that could be just a local myth
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Comment by nattering nabob of negativism
polypolyglot From: [info]polypolyglot Date: November 30th, 2006 03:06 am (UTC) (Link)

*palm to forehead* I shoulda stayed a Baptist!
I have always found it ironic that, at the beginning of 10th grade, my then-minister asked me to "prayerfully consider" becoming president of our Youth Fellowship. I politely said I'd do so, but didn't even give it a second thought because by then I had discovered (cue dramatic music) FORNICATION!
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Comment by Grrr. Arrrghhh.
purple_leatherc From: [info]purple_leatherc Date: November 30th, 2006 03:23 am (UTC) (Link)

One might say
that Douglas Feiden was trying to put the "bed" back in "embedded" ;)
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carnal_droog From: [info]carnal_droog Date: November 30th, 2006 05:16 am (UTC) (Link)
I don't think a marshwiggle like Coulter has the same definition of great sex that we do.

Unless one thinks a few minutes of awkward groping in the dark, followed by hours of guilt ridden sobbing afterwards is "hot".


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sinboy From: [info]sinboy Date: November 30th, 2006 03:42 pm (UTC) (Link)
Hey, some of my best friends are Marshwiggles. They're reshpect-a-biggle. Not like Colulter, who's a real servant of Tash is ever there was one.
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sinboy From: [info]sinboy Date: November 30th, 2006 03:31 pm (UTC) (Link)
Aww. My little group is all grown up and pissing off Ann Coulter! I'm so proud. Must make it to another meeting some day.
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susan_wright From: [info]susan_wright Date: November 30th, 2006 04:14 pm (UTC) (Link)
THAT is some icon...
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sinboy From: [info]sinboy Date: November 30th, 2006 10:55 pm (UTC) (Link)
Backgammon! There are advantages to being fair skinned.

Thanks, BTW.
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eric_mathgeek From: [info]eric_mathgeek Date: November 30th, 2006 07:45 pm (UTC) (Link)
I told a co-worker about this, and the Ann Coulter quote. He laughed and said: "Jesus is my safe word."
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szasz From: [info]szasz Date: January 15th, 2007 06:01 pm (UTC) (Link)
I tried to watch the Ann Coulter video but her supercilious sneer got me so disgusted I just couldn't get past her first snotty comment. *sigh*
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susan_wright From: [info]susan_wright Date: January 15th, 2007 07:30 pm (UTC) (Link)
That is problem with poor Ann, her delivery definitely dominates her content!
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