Now even sociologists are discovering the art of hooking up.

Earlier: Laura Sessions Stepp Is a “Chastity All-Star” at Ethically-Challenged Author’s Seminar

And: Laura Sessions Stepp’s Hookup Tactics

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This dirty old broad is strangely engaging:

Earlier: Laura Sessions Stepp Is a “Chastity All-Star” at Ethically-Challenged Author’s Seminar

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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. Read more…

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The long-time critic, first time caller, has finally bowed to her greatness: 

So I went to the Laura Sessions Stepp meet-and-greet at Politics and Prose yesterday. Perhaps there was a bit too much hype. I’ve been getting e-mails from people asking me what I had in store for her. Well, I had no interest in being banned from Politics and Prose and it’s hard to nail someone (in the Colbert sense, not the Unhooked sense) who has the podium. So when Wonkette said that “this Q&A is not to be missed,” I cringed a little. LSS was asked two dozen questions and only two of them could be considered negative.Naturally, I was one of those two.

I refuse to pay for a recording of LSS talking, so, here’s the gist of my question:

“You’ve referred to women as the traditional “sexual gatekeepers” who traditionally have the role of regulating teenage sexuality. Since you also claim that human beings need to learn how to properly love, are you arguing that a woman’s role in a relationship is to be nothing more than to be loving? How is this role different from previous roles that women have had and shed such as the submissive homemaker?”

That’s not a terrible question, is it? Of course I got no answer other than that she is only focused on women and how they’re hurt by hooking up. She would never dream of speaking for men. Her husband would never forgive her! (The audience totally LOL’ed.)

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Innovative tutorial sessions give teen girls hands-on experience

By Laura Stepp Sessions
Washington Post Staff Writer

The scene looks like any other tutoring session for a bright, focused suburban high school girl. The mentor doles out advice while the young charge carefully takes notes.

But this particular session isn’t about algebra or history; it’s all about sex. And in the bedroom of her parents house in a leafy Montgomery County suburb, 17-year-old Emily Neiman is getting real-time, hands-on schooling on the finer points of what conservatives used to call “carnal knowledge.”

Neiman’s parents have hired The School for Sex, a tutoring service designed to educate upwardly-mobile, fast-track teenage girls in sexual techniques and etiquette.

The service, which has been approved by The Academy of Sexual Sciences, has become the rage amongst upper middle class families.

According to University of Virginia psychiatrist Anita H. Clayton, an expert on women’s sexuality and mental health, many women have mediocre sex lives and are in need of some sort help.

“Women can change their level of satisfaction,” she has said. “We need to change the belief systems that are holding us back.”

Changing the belief system

The School for Sex represents a bold, innovative way for young women to change that belief system.

Watching a School lesson in action, it’s easy to see why it has become such a success story.

Up in her bedroom, the raven-haired Neiman watches raptly as a pair of tutors engages in “a standard heterosexual sex act” on her bed, which still boasts a Disney bedspread she had as a kid. Soon, Neiman is being coached in the ways of oral sex and being coaxed into participating.

“It’s always difficult the first time,” offers sexual health educator Stephanie Towers, the female half of the couple. “Just try it and if it doesn’t work for you we’ll stop.”

Sex coaches for girls are now more important than ever. According to Clayton, 43 percent of women are unhappy with their sex lives, “which doesn’t seem bad unless you believe, as I do, that the other 57 percent were lying.” Read more…

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