Two posts in two days? And long ones at that? Well, sometimes I just feel the need to write. Trust me, this one is intriguing...if nothing else, amusing.
Okay, so I'm not baggin on Christians, Christianity, religion, relgious people, conservatives or anything like that at all. It just happens to be that lately I'm running across news that relates to them. Soon after Germany got their second goal (ugh!), I pretty much stopped watching the game and started surfing the internet. I started reading random articles as I usually do – hopping from one thing to another. Then I ran into a somewhat amusing and baffling article.
The article was about a couple that started a “sin free” online sex toy shop geared toward Christians. They pray about things before they add them for sale on their site and base it on Song of Solomon. Another similar website says they “offer great prices on our Christian sex toys while keeping Jesus Christ at the center of it all.” I find this all just a bit funny because isn't a sex toy just a sex toy? What makes a sex toy Christian? The positive thing they advertise about these websites is that apparently they are “porn-free” environments, with no porno pop-up ads or anything like that. But I'm just curious, what constitutes “sin-free” sex toys as opposed to...well, that’s just it—as opposed to what? Sinful sex toys? And do they come in plain brown boxes with no images or directions on them that could be constituted as pornographic?
After a bit of reading I discovered that apparently any sex toy can be “sin free” as long as it's used by a married couple. But also, how do they know if the people buying the products are married...or Christian for that matter. Do they check? Is there a special survey? Do you have to send in your marriage license? If they do not know if the people purchasing are married, then doesn't it completely defeat their purpose? Also, do they make their own sex toys? Highly unlikely. So then they must be buying them from sex toy manufacturers, who then must be sin-free, right? Right? lol I just hope they know that they're indirectly keeping the porn industry financially in the green, even though they appear to be demonizing it.
Yes, it must seem like I'm really bored to be writing about all this, but hey...I am always analyzing things, but sometimes I just do it for fun, and this was too interesting of a topic for me to just leave alone. lol
So back to the questions: Are they using Jesus to sell sex? Or, are they using sex to sell Jesus? Is this a really creative attempt to proselytize? Either way, I’m sure it’s a win-win situation—as long as you’re married, that is. I just hope that these people aren't jumping on the religion band wagon in order to make money, and I'd like to think they have good intentions.
By the way, about a week ago I saw a church and an adult bookstore on THE SAME BLOCK. Priceless. :)
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