What I get to read...

If you haven't already heard, I am collecting all the bullshit literature, youth rallies, musics, etc. that's targeted toward Christian teens and writing my own response in the form of a book (there's that much bullshit to fight in the world). One of the books I am currently reading is titled Every Young Woman's Battle.

"What has this book taught you, Naomi?" You may ask. Well, boys and girls, let me tell you a really messed up story. Get this, there's an entire chapter devoted to telling women not to masterbate. I know that Kinsey was way ahead of the curve and I can't live under the assumption that everyone has moved past this "good girls" don't masterbate thing. But the reasoning is hilarious! I'm serious! Please, prepare yourselves to fall out of your chair laughing!

The reasoning behind not masterbating for women is that 1) it will lead you down a whore path blah blah blah and (DRUMOROLL!) 2) when you get married it is your husband's job to give you an orgasm and you shouldn't tell him what to do. I KID YOU NOT!

So, lesbians, apparently you get to masterbate but the rest of us not so lucky. After all, what will our poor husbands do? Gee, I don't know...LISTEN TO THOSE OF US WHO ACTUALLY HAVE VAGINAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I've been holding that in ever since I read the damn thing.

Is this funny? Absolutely. But I also write about it because this reasoning is telling women that sexuality isn't even hers when she's married. Do I want to be married? Ha. But in this protestant Christian world where MOST people believe in sex only in marriage, can a woman not own it at least when she's married? This is a perfect example of making women feel not good enough, ashamed of something natural, and trying to give us all bad sex lives. After all, people with good sex lives won't come to the Friday night spaghetti dinner at the church (okay, shameless joke but I couldn't help myself).

That's all for today. I saw The Social Network last night and tomorrow I will give you my extremely biased opinion of it. Spoiler Alert: wait for the DVD. Hope this is a laugh for those of you who send me fan mail (the real kind not the murderer crap).