The Emerging New Faithful: Sexless and Liking It

Or How American Kids Are Turning the Tables on Woodstock

By Abraham V. Llera, published Dec 04, 2007
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The group's meeting had just adjourned, and the members have started to peter out. Like many dating couples, the evening would probably have ended for the group's Harvard seniors Justin Murray and Sarah Kinsella not only with a kiss, but with dinner and wild sex, not necessarily in that order.

But Justin and Sarah are no hooking-up couple, and neither are the rest of Harvard U students who attended the meeting that night. In fact, they met precisely to try to attract more students like them - chaste or at least struggling to.

They're members of True Love Revolution (www.hcs.harvard.edu/tlr/), like the dodo an anachronism in today's world where kids copulate as naturally as they breathe air, and where being chaste is looked down as deviate behavior.

And perhaps the most amazing thing about it is - get a load of this - they're not alone. American students like True Love Revolution founders Justin and Sarah are no fluke. Theirs, in fact, is only one organization of many that are sprouting in the United States, enough for Colleen Campbell (author of the "New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orhtodoxy") to call them "The New Faithful." (www.colleen-campbell.com)

The Emerging New Faithful: Sexless and Liking It

High School Kids at the Youth Festival

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With regard to the statistics, please, if you can cite your sources.

Posted on 12/07/2007 at 3:12:00 AM

 
I understand how Americans value their privacy. There's just a little problem with that, especially as it applies to their sexual practices. What they do affects not only themselves, but the rest of the world as well, including the way my deardaughter Maria Teresa, twelve, will be living her life. Filipinos always had a quiet life marked by respect for parents, love for the elderly, and yes, respect for sex as the sole prerogative of husband and wife. But your Woodstock has changed all that. Roe vs Wade made it evern worse. So please pardon me, but I'm sorry I cannot stop speaking against your alien lifestyle.

Posted on 12/07/2007 at 2:12:00 AM

 
I agree with kelly m here: it is someone's own private choice and doesn't need to be blown up into some big club or movement although there is a high rate of teen pregnancy, poverty and STDs, with the epidemic of AIDS in Africa right now. If someone chooses to abstain from relations until marriage, then that's okay and that's their choice. I agree with that choice but making it some big thing like it's so abnormal is just blowing it out of proportion.

Posted on 12/06/2007 at 7:12:00 PM

 
I agree with kelly m here: it is someone's own private choice and doesn't need to be blown up into some big club or movement although there is a high rate of teen pregnancy, poverty and STDs, with the epidemic of AIDS in Africa right now. If someone chooses to abstain from relations until marriage, then that's okay and that's their choice. I agree with that choice but making it some big thing like it's so abnormal is just blowing it out of proportion.

Posted on 12/06/2007 at 7:12:00 PM

 
WHy do we put so much emphasis on people's sex lives? Abstinence clubs are just as focused as are any wild sex club you can think of, and it is demeaning to human beings to break down their worth to either their sexually active or sexually inactive status. These are private choices people make in their relationships and they shouldn't involve a herd to help them make them. BTW, the teen pregancy rate is up for the first time in 15 years and the rate of STDs among peope under 21 is at its highest level in history in the US...

Posted on 12/06/2007 at 11:12:00 AM

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