Evangelical erotica: an overlooked area in reception history?
In response to Mike Bird’s reference to a Sydney Morning Herald article on Christian Sex Guides, Doug Chaplin points out a load of exotic sounding practices and makes the following comment which may or may not be true:
I’m not quite sure why, since evangelical Christians (the only sort who would buy a separate “Christian” guide) seem to me to have bought fully into a late modern Western hedonistic relational pleasure-giving-and-receiving understanding of sex as a necessary means of human fulfilment – only adding the proviso that it really ought to happen only in marriage (straight of course!) whether it’s your first, second, third or more.
Earliest Christian History is a family blog and would never publish the sorts of descriptions Doug does. However, it seems that Mike may have been reading a bit more widely, perhaps from one of the aforementioned, I don’t know, though he seems to be getting a little less elaborate in his old age:
Most nights I do a 10-15 minute reading from the Greek New Testament. Since I haven’t mastered all of the Greek quite yet, I sit in bed with three books: Kubo’s lexicon, an NIV Bible, and my trusty UBS4. With my little library in bed with me (next to the wife) it gets pretty crowded. Well I’m glad to say that I only take the one book to bed with me now which is the new UBS reader’s edition of the Gk NT.