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“I am absolutely for the orthodox Christian teaching on chastity, but what I am not for is the culture of euphemism that Christians gravitate toward when it comes to sex . . . I had had sex before becoming a Christian. It’s just tough . . . [T]he point of saying that it’s difficult and people are failing at it, [and] we know people are failing at it . . . is not to throw the traditional teaching out the window . . . Rather, it’s to say that if we as a community spoke more straightforwardly about the challenges in people’s lives, we might pastorally be able to support people better in their efforts to live chastely.”
—Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God, who is working on a book about chastity, in conversation with Warren Smith of Evangelical Press News (Jan. 13, 2004) | 
