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Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity |  | Author: Lauren F. Winner
Publisher: Brazos Press
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Edition: annotated edition
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1587431971
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9781587431975
ASIN: 1587431971
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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SEX. Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens--sex is casual, aggressive, and absolutely everywhere. And everybody's doing it, right? In Real Sex, heralded young author
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 mixed June 20, 2010
madge
I really enjoyed Girl Meets God and I resonated with her experience looking for relationships as an adolescent and young adult. I should add that I actually agree with most of her beliefs expressed in this book. So many of us--some raised by absent or self centered parents, some just following the predominant example, some raised by very earnest parents whose religion failed to provide kids positive reasons to espouse these virtues--have not so different experiences. I know many women (maybe there are men too, but I don't know them) whose past sexual experiences have tarnished their ability to relate to their husbands in postitive ways. I hope that we can move toward a higher view of marriage, modesty in daily life, chastity as a positive virtue.
That said, this book comes off as a big ole scold. It has a bit of a book report tone, as if she has done the research on the subject but doesn't have a lot of experiene with it. She clearly has only observed life with young children second hand, and her perspective on married life with children shows that inexperience. I hope that if she ever is in a position to care pastorally for married individuals, she throws a bit more kindness and wisdom of experience in with her high level of accountability and judgement. The same goes for anyone who reads this book and is in a position to minister to others.
 very lucid treatment March 27, 2010
jaigner (Texas)
Finally there is a book about sex that isn't about guilting people into masking their behaviors (like Every Man's Battle). This is an open and frank discussion of sexuality that is integrated to the rest of our beings. While other works talk about what you should and shouldn't do, what you should and shouldn't see, what you should and shouldn't touch, this book clearly surpasses those kinds of superficial and legalistic questions and cuts to the core of the issue.
Lauren Winner is a rare scholar; the kind that can be open and honest about something as polarizing as sexuality and preserve the sacredness of the subject throughout. I've not read another work on the subject that can find a voice with as broad an audience. "Real Sex" is really good stuff.
I highly recommend it to anyone in any stage of life.
 starts well, but falls short January 25, 2010
K. McDonald (Sitka, AK United States)
This book has some merit from Ms. Winner's personal testimony of her struggle for truth about sex and facing her own experience to her excellent statement about real sex being self-giving love. Also, the section on lies the culture tells about sex is very good.
But she fails when it comes to some of the deeper issues, particularly contraception. On the one hand she talks about the tri-fold nature of sex (unitive, sacramental and procreative) but then dismisses the Catholic teaching that proscribes artificial contraception as extreme and ends up on some middle ground. This is unfortunate because if one takes the tri-fold nature of sex to its natural conclusion, you cannot leave out one "fold" and keep it intact. Contraception is not only contra-conception, it is contra-real sex and contra-real marriage. This weakness, to follow a topic to its natural conclusion, is also seen in the material on masturbation. She misses the mark on this totally in failing to point out how masturbation contradicts the meaning of sex as self-giving love. Masturbation is "giving-self love"--the polar opposite of true love.
Another very weak section in the book is "Lies the Church tells about sex". One wonders what "Church" she is talking about. She tries too hard, and fails, to be pan-Christian and ends up failing to deliver a coherent message here.
Finally, Ms. Winner fails to address the soul-deep, God-designed differences between men and women. This appreciation for how God made us male and female is critical to understanding "real sex". She leaves the reader only with "women want sex as much as men" and misses completely the reason sex is arguably the biggest area of conflict in marriage.
different from the rest December 1, 2009
Dave 1965 (Knoxville, TN)
If you have read her other books (Girl meets God, Mudhouse Sabbath) and loved them as I did I was a bit disappointed. It is a very good book but it felt like the writing was forced at times and just wasn't a literary work like her previous efforts. A bit more opinion in this one and less biblical foundation. I did like it but it was a variation of her previous works.
 It's like taking lessons on divorce-proofing your marriage by a 7-time divorcee August 16, 2009
Victor (Iowa)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Girl Meets God is one of my favorite books.
Mudhouse Sabbath was a fascinating look into Jewish practices that I reference often.
Real Sex just didn't do it for me. After finishing a page or chapter I had no clue what she actually thought about anything. And the writing style was so different than her other books.
I will read anything Lauren Winner writes and have benefited from her thoughts. Surely, though, there are better books on the subject of sex, and by people who actually, you know, remained chaste until their wedding night rather than had their fun and then wrote about how the rest of us probably shouldn't.
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