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friend enjoyer and aspiring game developer
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25 years of being chaotic and counting
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I enjoy doing worldbuilding a lot and have a big sci-fi setting with magic I've been building for over a decade now
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I'm reminded of something I read many years agoβLiveJournal commentary on the Twilight novels, written from the perspective of a young woman who used to be in the Church of Latter-Day Saints and thus could furnish insights into their culture. One of the things she reported was that young couples were always talking about sex.
Like, talking about NOT having sex, mind you. But still, talking about sex. They'd get up in temple or church or whatever the Mormons call it, and talk about how happy they were that they resisted the temptation to have sex.
The flipside is that Mormons apparently believe they have the best sex in the world because it's pure married sex. ~Chara
there is something to be said about how the more taboo an act is, the stronger of a fixation it becomes psychologically. and in particular to the Mormon church, the benefits (material, financial) they stand to gain from positioning themselves as the moral authority on the subject.
i think a similar dynamic is true in evangelical circles, but with less rigid hierarchy and more decentralization. there's no definitive organization that reaps the benefits, only waves of gurus and pastors and speakers and book authors, etc. but yeah would love to read that