Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity

This was a very interesting book.

I recommend this book to anyone, especially the chapter on chastity as a spiritual discipline. You have to love a book on chastity that starts out with a woman saying that she really is not that good at being chaste. And her centering sexual behavior on the goal of spiritual formation instead of exclusively on dos and donts is helpful. And her understanding of sex as private and not public, but yet communal and not exclusively personal is very helpful as well.

Here are a couple of quotes--related to the topic and not, that I liked:

St. Francis of Assisi famously called his body "Brother Ass." I think it fasting that allows you to say to your body, You are Brother (or Sister), but you are also an Ass.

We can send away our sins. Sending away our sins is important because our sins are destroying us.

Legalism fails miserably at the one thing that it is supposed to do: encourage obiedience.--Phillip Yancey