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Moriah JovanChristian online sex shop
Posted by Lily on June 17, 2008
I thought this might be of interest to some of you. This online sex shop, Book 22, offers products that are specifically chosen to enhance intimacy in a Christian marriage. They say:
The twenty-second book of the Bible is Song of Solomon. We believe that God intended that such love, as spoken of in Song of Solomon, be a beautiful and normal part of marital life. Unfortunately this gift from God has been grossly distorted and abused by both ancient and modern people. Book22 is offering quality products to enhance the intimate life of God’s children. Our hope is that our products will serve as intimacy enhancers for your marriage.
Would you be more likely to buy items from a Christian sex shop than from a typical online vendor?
Joe said
If they have the best prices! No, I really have no issues buying from any online shop. That’s the beauty of anonymity on the internet. But I think it might be a different issue for women.
I’ve been reading “Passionate Marriage” and my wife was a bit uneasy. She said she didn’t want me reading if it suggests partner swapping or anything similar. I explained that I’m a thinking person and can draw my own conclusions. She likes to see things in black and white. Bit of a tangent, but this discussion reminded me. I can’t imagine reading only LDS relationship books, nor shopping at only religious sex shops.
MoJo said
In general, no. I have my small catalog of reliable vendors, “reliable” being the key word here, so I usually don’t go roaming. (Heh. I don’t cheat on my sex toy vendors. Heh.)
I went to that website and it doesn’t appear to me they have anything different from what anybody else has. I’m wondering if the packaging is different or something to reflect their website brand… If not, I can see no value having been added except for the “…for married couples…” tag line.
I wouldn’t read a relationship book Deseret Book carries; that might be a hasty, ignorant judgment call, but I can’t imagine a DB relationship book would say anything different from what’s said during any given general conference and can be found in the Ensign. (Feel free to now throw the rotten tomatoes.)
Lily said
Supposedly they “pray about” every item that they carry in the shop and they remove any packaging with pornographic images. The praying part doesn’t do much for me, but given that I find a lot of sex toy packaging offensive, that part does have some appeal.
Tom Sawyer said
Pretty lame, if you ask me. But hey, if someone needs the “God’s Stamp of Approval” veneer to validate their purchase a sex toy, then God bless ‘em.
But I’ll give credit to the business people behind this idea. Who knows if they are even Christian? I can see the sex toy companies out there thinking…
“You know, Christians have sex too. How can we market our products to them?”
Followed by some ex-Christian marketing lackey saying, “Hey, have you heard of the Song of Solomon in the Bible? It’s pretty risque stuff.”
“Perfect, there’s our ‘in’!! our proverbial foot in the door!!”
By the way, I noticed all kinds of clitoral and vaginal stimulation devices, but none of them were shaped like a penis, with the requisite head, veins, etc. Strange what is considered pornographic or immoral, and what is not. You’d think you’d celebrate the look of the penis, which was created by God, after all.