Lord, Save Us From Your Followers

Just watched a great documentary, starring a Christian Evangelical, as he goes about the country getting people's opinion about Christians. It's very balanced and takes both sides (Left and Right) into consideration. See the film on Netflix

Regret at waiting

It looks like the preachers selling the purity propaganda are wrong (big surprise). There's this fabrication within the purity culture that goes like this: if you save yourself for marriage, you will have mind-blowing sex and live happily ever after. Not so for quite a few people. Take Jessica Ciencin Henriquez's article "My Virginity Mistake" on the Salon website. She says the opposite of the purity culture's message - that waiting for marriage actually led to her divorce.

The Bible Belt and Porn Connection

I heard somewhere that the people in what's known as the "Bible Belt" (aka, the Red states) consume just as much, if not more pornography than those states that are more liberal-leaning. I did a little online searching and came up with this article which confirmed it.