Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity (audio)

by Lauren Winner

Publisher:

christianaudio.com

, 2006

Overview

SEX. Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens - sex is thrilling, necessary, unavoidable. And everybody’s doing it, right? // In Real Sex, Lauren Winner speaks candidly about the difficulty - and the importance - of sexual chastity. With nuance and wit, she talks about her own sexual journey. Never dodging tough terms like “confession” and “sin”, she grounds her discussion of chastity first and foremost in scripture. She confronts cultural lies about sex and challenges how we talk about sex in church (newsflash: however wrong it is, premarital sex can feel liberating and enjoyable!) Building on the thought of Wendell Berry, she argues that sex is communal rather than private, personal rather than public. // Refusing to slink away from thorny topics, Winner deftly addresses pornography, masterbation and the perennial question of “how far is too far?” Winner also digs deeper; What does chastity have to do with loving my neighbor? How does sexual behavior form habits and expectations? With compassion and grit, she calls us, whether married or single, to pursue chastity as conversion and amendment of life. // Real Sex is an essential read for single Christians grappling with chastity, for married Christians committed to monogamy, and for those who councel them.

Product Details

• Title: Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity (audio)
• Author: Lauren Winner
• Publisher: christianaudio.com
• Print Publication Date: 2006
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Audio
• Subject: Christian Living › Love & Marriage
• ISBNs: 9781596443457, 1596443456
• Resource ID: LLS:9781596443457
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-01-24T23:20:40Z

About Lauren Winner

Dr. Winner writes and lectures widely on Christian practice, the history of Christianity in America, and Jewish-Christian relations. She is the author of three books, Girl Meets God, Mudhouse Sabbath, Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, and is completing a study, forthcoming from Yale University Press, on material culture, religious practice, and household piety in early Virginia. Dr. Winner’s research has been supported by numerous institutions, including Monticello, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, and the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. Dr. Winner has appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has served as a commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books and Culture, and Christianity Today, and her essays have been included in several volumes of The Best Christian Writing.