Is it now accepted behavior for church members to frequent sex shops?
I just read through a thread on another message board and the woman who started the discussion mentioned going to a lingerie/sex toy shop. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I read that.
If going to sex shops is the norm among members of the church, is there any wonder why there has been an increase in internet p*rn addiction? sad.gif
I guess I'm a total prude.
lol... pahoran sez no LDS should ever go to a sex shop and heres what duncan says
I knew one couple who frequented such places and they are now split up and no it was not me.
I'm not sure I see how one woman mentioning it on another board makes it "the norm among members of the church." Among my church acquaintances, I don't think it to be the norm, as it never comes up in our conversations, but who knows what goes on they don't bring up blink.gif
On a lighter note, my brother is an FBI agent, who as part of his job went undercover for a short time to build a case against a child porn ring. This required him to enter some rather seedy establishments from time to time. He was also serving as a Bishop at the time, and was seen by one of the young women in his ward leaving one of those establishments. To her credit, she did not start any rumors, but followed scriptural form and went to talk to my brother directly about it. She was quite shaken, and it took quite a bit to reassure her, but he thinks he was finally successful.
Years ago a young missionary told my DH that once a woman is no longer able to bear children, the couple should no longer have sexual relations. What say ye about that? huh.gif
This may be steering off topic (maybe not), but the reason why I'm perplexed as to why it's okay to visit seedy sex shops (where a large portion of the profits of the store is generated from selling magazines and movies) is there are members of the church who refuse to go to Starbucks because its profits are generated from selling coffee and tea. Sex smut is good; coffee and tea are bad. Huh??? This logic escapes me.
lol....theres lots of good posts on that thread. morningstar buys here sex stuff from target:
You can get tasteful romantic things at places like Target without running into a situation where you feel like you want to burn your eyes out. I made the mistake once of going into Lover's Package. I thought it would be quite different, but there was porn near the front. They should call it Pervert's Package. Ew, and I won't even name the certain "toy" that there seemed to be a disturbing demand for based on the large number of them on their shelves. Yuck. I don't understand why anyone would use it. I could've gone my whole life without seeing that. bad.gif Maybe there are some decent stores out there, but I wouldn't recommend risking going into a bad one.