We’ve heard of strange bedfellows, but what was the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Laura Sessions Stepp doing speaking (and presumably hawking her book Unhooked) at a recent seminar on female chastity called “Modest Proposals?” Stepp was part of a group of female authors dubbed “Chastity All-Stars” by the organizer, the ethically-challenged Dawn Eden.

Eden is a disgraced former New York Post copy editor-turned-religious “chastity advocate” who was fired by the New York Post after she admittedly inserted her own partisan views on abortion into a story penned by Susan Edelman. Before that, she touted herself as a “rock historian,” but her credibility in the music world was always in question since she readily admitted to sleeping with her subjects.

Eden, whose real last name is Goldstein, became an author of a chastity book after she saw the dollar signs and fame…er, sorry, saw “the light” and converted from Reform Judiasm to Catholicism. Her book is a preachy-yet-lurid Candace Bushnell-styled tell-all that purportedly tells young women not to have a lot of sex, all the while advertising her sex techniques and the fact that she received a book deal as a result of her “sinful” ways.

This hardly sounds like the type of “writer” anyone from the esteemed Washington Post would want to be be associated with. Even the bed-hopping Bushnell’s ethic were never called into question.
Yet, Sessions Stepp is now a “Chastity All-Star.” We’re wondering if someone has tacked that dubious title on the door of Stepp’s office. Do her kids know their mom’s a “Chastity All-Star?” Is Stepp inadvertently saying ethical lapses are A-OK so long as you have a book to hawk and a hymen to “regenerate?”

Eden now works for the Cardinal Newman Society, a seemingly good fit, since the Catholic Church does seemingly like to give free passes to members who like to sleep with lots of boys.