Evangelical leaders paired sexual purity rhetoric with boasts of superior sexual pleasure

Evidence

The church also elevated the role of sexual purity, though Haggard insisted that purity didn’t diminish pleasure; evangelicals, he boasted, had “the best sex lives” of anyone. All this came together in a larger mission. Evangelicals who flocked to Colorado Springs shared in a mythical dream “populated by cowboys and Indians, monsters and prayer warriors to slay them, and ladies to reward the warriors with chaste kisses.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 474

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Televangelist sex scandals in the 1980s rattled evangelical moral confidence — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 298; Evangelical purity teachings promised boys great sex and judged women for modesty failures — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 390; Evangelical sex advice books channeled sexuality into patriarchal marital authority — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 210 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Televangelist sex scandals in the 1980s rattled evangelical moral confidence — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 298; Evangelical purity teachings promised boys great sex and judged women for modesty failures — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 390; Evangelical sex advice books channeled sexuality into patriarchal marital authority — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 210 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Evangelical purity teachings promised boys great sex and judged women for modesty failures #exemplifies (0.93) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 390
• Evangelical leaders dismissed sexual harassment claims as feminist hypocrisy #complicates (0.74) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 337