The Watchtower Society's archaic view of sex sums up their childlike approach to life in general.
I remember the lectures and Watchtower warnings about the evils of sex. It’s amazing I managed to become a normal adult.
Hail Caesar!
"How can girls guard against temptation in this sex-crazy world?"
by Apognophos 35 Replies latest watchtower bible
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BU2B
Maybe I should study this at my next family worship evening. After all it was "food at the proper time" wasnt it?
This could be a reason they want JWs to use the online library that only goes back to 2000, not 1950 like the WT Library. To many embarrasing things.
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THE GLADIATOR
BU2B This could be a reason they want JWs to use the online library that only goes back to 2000...
This is an own goal. JWs who want to go back further will google what they are looking for and end up on apostate web-sites.
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Apognophos
Heh, thanks for the replies, guys. I wanted to see what parts you zoomed in on before commenting myself. I agree that "sex interview", as well as "sex emotions", is a bizarre turn of phrase. It's like the article was written by a Martian (or maybe Fred Franz, as suggested earlier?). I think the award for Most Martian-Sounding Sentence goes to: "In fact, this is one main reason for creating the female of the human species." More importantly, I'm not sure the article actually answered the question posed in its title.
"When a young, unmarried girl falls to the temptation, the price she pays is terrible: shame, sorrow, a ruined reputation, endless troubles, with the danger of being disfellowshiped from a congregation if the girl is a dedicated member." -- Any shame felt would come from the fact that her parents treat her as dirt if she loses her virginity. I don't think shame over sex occurs naturally, without parents yelling at you not to think about sex. And of course, whose fault is it if she gets disfellowshipped? How terrible a price indeed, for anyone unlucky enough to be born into this religion, encouraged to get baptized before being sexually mature, and then unable to resist natural urges.
Witness My Fury: Very interesting comment, I hadn't realized that female hysteria was believed by some to be caused by a wandering uterus. I honestly can't figure out what they mean by "ovum at large", as hilarious as that expression is, since they say, "When the ovum, that is, the egg cell from which the baby starts, is at large or is on its way from the woman’s ovary through her Fallopian tube to the uterus." Where else would it be, but in the ovary or on its way from the ovary to the uterus? Very puzzling.
LisaRose: Thanks for picking up on that, I am very curious as to what "take care of themselves" means, since we know that the Victorian-era morality that they were promoting was ardently anti-masturbation. Presumably the actual intended meaning is "The girl will sequester herself from boys and wear as many layers of clothing as possible" while the ovum is "at large". But it certainly sounds like something different to a modern audience.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
"It's like the article was written by a Martian"
Read it in a conehead voice and it seems about right.
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Band on the Run
Is this another satirical piece where I don't' know if it is for real or not? Did they just call women cows? Cows?!
If this is sincere, the author and editor need to see a psychiatrist immediately. You don't call young women cows in America. What cascade of hormones takes place that is similar to a cow in heat. Why aren't birth control methods mentioned? This is sick.
Are people going to make fun of me for believing the WTBTS wrote this?
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Apognophos
I promise this is real and unedited; if you still have the Library CD-ROM, you can check for yourself. But it is definitely indistinguishable from some of the satire I've seen on here, so your disbelief is understandable. I was researching something else and saw this article next to one I had looked up, and just had to post it.
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cantleave
Bat shit crazy!!!
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LisaRose
Poe's law, in broader form, is:
Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing. [2]
The core of Poe's law is that a parody of something extreme by nature becomes impossible to differentiate from sincere extremism. A corollary of Poe's law is the reverse phenomenon: sincere fundamentalist beliefs can be mistaken for a parody of those beliefs. [2]
The last sentence is in play here. The Watchtower literature of 1961 is so extreme and ridiculous that it seems like a parody.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Here's the picture and caption that should have gone with that article:
