{"id":217,"date":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/gq-on-the-anticlimax-beat.html"},"modified":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","slug":"gq-on-the-anticlimax-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/gq-on-the-anticlimax-beat.html","title":{"rendered":"GQ on the Anticlimax Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>The April issue of GQ, the magazine for dudes with elegantly mussed hair, baits us with the cover line, \u201cThe New Christian Sex Craze.\u201d This continues a series of articles on conservative Christians, most of which have peddled fringey crackpots as just average Christian Joes. The sex craze in question, however, turns out to be the chastity movement, which writer Walter Kirn discovers with a visit to the L.A.-based Christian college Biola University and an interview with Stephen Arterburn, co-author of the Christian man\u2019s no-sex guide \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?item_no=63682&amp;netp_id=205693&amp;event=ESRCN&amp;item_code=WW\" target=\"_new\">Every Young Man\u2019s Battle<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirn, who admits that he grew up a sexually repressed Mormon, confesses a lot of admiration for both the boys of Biola\u2014who use scotch tape and paper to hide Jennifer Aniston\u2019s curves on magazine covers and talk dirty to one another to quell urges\u2014and for Arterburn. He\u2019s astonished at how chastity has become a form of rebellion, in which sex is ardently hoped for but delayed: \u201cThe new abstinence is not anti-sex but pro-sex, and that\u2019s it\u2019s ingenious selling point,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, Kirn is the one who comes across as anti-sex: His repeated jibe against the passionate for Christ is that they are bound to be disappointed when the real thing happens.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April issue of GQ, the magazine for dudes with elegantly mussed hair, baits us with the cover line, \u201cThe New Christian Sex Craze.\u201d This continues a series of articles on conservative Christians, most of which have peddled fringey crackpots as just average Christian Joes. 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