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In the Face of Sexual Temptation, Repression Is a Sure-Fire Failure
How do we solve the problem of desire? Christian asceticism offers an alternative way.
Rachel Gilson
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first relationship to desire was to give in to it. As a teenager in the
early aughts, I believed that life was found by identifying my desires
and rushing toward their satisfaction. I played this out in academics
and especially in sexuality. My life beat to the pulse of Ariana
Grande’s chant, “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it.” The right
response to desire was indulgence.
Unbeknownst to me as a nonChristian, the purity movement was running in parallel. Those who experienced ...
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Saturday, August 31, 2019
How do we solve the problem of desire?
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