Remember when I put my virginity in the newspaper?
Years ago, I outed myself as a virgin in a chastity essay I wrote for the Tampa Bay Times—and boy did readers respond!
“Practicing chastity is crazy,” they said in comments and in emails. They also said it (and much worse, lol) in voicemails they left late at night, when they knew I wouldn’t be at my desk, because nobody would say it to me in real-time (other than one colleague at the paper, who also said nobody cares what somebody as young as I was had to say).
Ave Maria Press must have disagreed, because its team published Chastity Is for Lovers: Single, Happy, and (Still) a Virgin, the book I went on to write about chastity.
Chastity is a virtue that enables a person to love authentically, and we are called to practice it in a culture that calls it absurd, regardless of our relationship statuses (You read it right, folks—even married people are called to practice chastity, and chastity isn’t abstinence.).
I happen to know there aren’t many copies of that book left, and I also happen to know it’s currently on sale for FOUR DOLLARS A COPY as part of Ave Maria Press’s biggest sale of the year.
If you’d like to snag a copy (or stock up on it to give as gifts), I’d do it here, and I’d do it soon: https://www.avemariapress.com/products/chastity-is-for-lovers