Your comparison between Gothard and Warren Jeffs is very apt.
To clarify, no...I don’t believe the Duggars are into that kind of thing. But there are signs of issues with sex in the family situation.
Agree with you about the severe repression. Josh was taught that he couldn’t even look at a woman, and Michelle Duggar said she regretted the immodesty of kissing her husband before they got married. Like you, I’m a sinner, but there’s nothing normal in any of that.
Thank you, Cath. Very interesting as I now see that the 80 year old Gothard was forced out last year for hitting on the young girls. I remember hearing about the Jeffs trial where his gofers would instruct these poor little girls who were about to be raped into a “marriage” to show him love and not hold back when he took them. Horrific.
Michelle Duggar reminds me of those women who are holed up in these communes and don’t learn anything about the outside world even when fullly grown. You are right that her regret over kissing before marriage is beyond odd. Very naive woman married to a very programmed man.