Posted on 12/21/2006 7:26:23 AM PST by Pyro7480
WASHINGTON - Dawn Eden is no shrinking violet. “I’ve got just a tad of the exhibitionist in me,” the former rock journalist turned Catholic convert recently told the National Review Online — and with the launch of her new book, “The Thrill of the Chaste,” Eden does nothing short of baring her soul.
“The Thrill of the Chaste” translates Eden’s heart-on-her-sleeve candor into an intimate confessional where nothing is off the table: private sexual fantasies, self-gratification, personal insecurities, various cringe-worthy moments (one involves dressing up like Cher, but not as a prank) and — get ready — “desperately longing for a man from the depths of your loins.”
Eden’s eyebrow-raising candor, however, also translates into an important book that chronicles the havoc casual sex can wreak on women’s psyches and souls. “The Thrill of the Chaste” recounts Eden’s journey from promiscuity to chastity. “In a vicious cycle,” she writes, “single women feel lonely because they are not loved, so they have casual sex with men who do not love them. That was my life.”
No-strings-attached sex, Eden argues, isn’t “empowering,” but enslaving. Many women, whether they would admit the reason for it or not, have witnessed this firsthand....
Hopefully, Eden’s message will make it beyond preaching to the choir. Already, Radar reporter Peter Hyman has flirted with Eden in type (and personally offered to help break her vow of chastity). The New York Times, lo and behold, covered the book in a balanced, if tepid, review. Even the merciless gossip Web site Gawker, which has christened Eden “everyone’s second-favorite scary conservative Catholic after Mel Gibson,” just can’t seem to stop posting about her....
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Ping!
single women feel lonely because they are not loved, so they have casual sex with men who do not love themSad.
Never heard of her.
Too many options. Sort of like a covery of quail flying up and you stand there with the shotgun just staring.
Nothing funny about a sinner who has repented of his or her ways. Quite wonderful.
Oh, I know. :-) I just know some FReepers can't help themselves to make fun of such people.
Well you asked for it! :-) --- Yes, her boyfriends (no way of telling how many) will be disappointed. Frankly, I am just jealous --- :-)
Dawn Eden works as an editor at the New York Daily News, where she is the deputy news editor for regional editions. Ms. Eden has also worked as a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online and Crux magazine.
"I just know some FReepers can't help themselves to make fun of such people."
Hey, I'm the Freeper who tag line was (for years, mind you): "Most Freepers would respond to Jesus, 'Damn right, I'll throw the first stone.'"
Got daily hate mail and daily compliments on that tag line.
To all the chaste women of the world...thanks for nothing!
You gotta admit this guy's name is over the top, considering what he's trying to accomplish.
Peter *Hyman* is willing to help "break her vow of chastity"? What are the odds?!
Reminds me of Saint Augustine's prayer, "Lord, please make be chaste, but not yet." Guess she got to "yet", but it hardly becomes a lesson in life or some heroic gesture.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! ;-)
I'll let Scripture speak for itself.
So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance (Luke 15:10).
Put less succinctly... men offer/trade love for sex; and women offer/trade sex for love.
Guess the 60's generations ideas of - 'if it feels good do it' - is finally being turned around.
Now we just need to get Rosie O'Donnell to convert!
Thanks for the quote, but I probably could recite it before you were born. Forgiveness isn't the issue and it isn't what I addressed.
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