Of all the reviews to get...

[misscam]

I did not just get one suggesting I should work in a wedding for Lina and Gimli because the reviewer was uncomfortable seeing them having sex and not being married.

*checks* Yes, I did.

I'm sure my parents, unmarried and together for 27 years now, would be amused. If anything, that review is likely to make me *not* write in a wedding at all. I had considered it, but mostly because a wedding Dwarf style would be fun.

Oh well, we'll see.

Comments

One thing that bothers me...

[nimbrethil.livejournal.com]

What's all this talk about purity, anyway? Remaining pure UNTIL your wedding night? So, after the wedding you're going to be impure? Tainted? Unclean?

Why does being a virgin have anything to do with being 'pure'? Using the terms synonomously suggests that virgins are clean and anyone who is not a virgin--whether a whore OR a married woman who has only ever slept with her husband, is soiled or tarnished somehow.

Seriously. Think about it. You said yourself that ths idea is to remain pure until you're married. Why pure? Sex is sex whether you're married to the person you're having sex with, or not. So if you're pure prior to the loss of your virginity, you're going to be impure (dirty, tainted) after the loss of it. A wife will be just as impure after losing her virginity as an unmarried woman.

The suggestion that virginity equals purity, while loss of virginity equals being soiled, just confuses me. That's all.

Re: One thing that bothers me...

[missjean.livejournal.com]

Nonono. Perhaps I should have been more clear. I'm going to try to explain what I mean when I say "pure" and "virgin".

Well, the way that I mean virgin is a given, right?

As far as virginity=purity while loss of virginity=impurity goes, I'll put it this way: IF you are married to the person, you are still pure. Thus the whole "keeping the marriage bed pure" bit that people like to use. (This meaning, of course, that you sleep only with the person you're married to period. Not that you only keep the particular bed you share free of any other sexual activity.)

*sigh* This is difficult for me to explain to those that possibly don't share the same beliefs I do.

If you are not married to someone and you sleep with them, you become unclean or impure. Yes, you are tainted. Soiled. Whatever word you prefer. If you refrain from such activities until you are married, and then keep to these activities with only that person, you remain pure, although you lose your virginity.

Virginity DOES equal purity, but not having your virginity still intact does NOT automatically equal impurity. It depends on how it came to be lost.

Does that make better sense? Like I said, I'm tired and not very coherent right now. :P

I'm also having a bad day for some reason. That doesn't help one put one's thoughts into words does it? :P

Re: One thing that bothers me...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Knock it off, please. I said topic was closed, please take this debate *elsewhere*. My LJ is not the place for a grand religious debate on morals and logic.

TOPIC CLOSED.