Would Jesus use a dildo to save your soul?
Bwahahahahaha!
Gives WWJD a whole new meaning!
I don’t know why, but I always confuse WWJD and 18"IBDHD – or whatever it was.
If the OP’s link it correct, perhaps it’s divine inspiration.
Obligatory broken link to the Baby Jesus Butt Plug! http ://www.divine-interventions.com/baby.php
I took one for the team and perused the site-it’s a regular looking sex toy site, except-sweet zombie Jesus!, Like a Virgin tightening gel??? Baby Jesus butt plug wept! :eek:
About once a week, the SDMB reveals to me something I wouldn’t have thought possible… :eek:
I’m taking a course called “Spirituality and Sexuality” where-in we’re reading material on how in Christianity having sex before marriage is actually ok. I feel like I’ve finally found people saying what I’ve felt all along.
So, my point is, I’m forwarding this link to my professor to see what he thinks. He’ll probably get a kick out of it.
Please start a thread on this if you get a chance. I’m fascinated!! 
These people are in the business of sex toys–but they’re so embarrassed by it that they coyly hide all the most realistic sex toys on the “Special Orders” page. Like, they have to hide penis-shaped vibrators on an entirely different web page, so the folks who are in there to buy a vibrating clit-tickler or cock ring won’t have to look at a penis-shaped object. I mean, bwah? How do they manage to draw a line between “sex toys that we’re deeply ambivalent about but sell anyway” and “sex toys that we’re fine with”?
Maybe that’s part of Jesus’ direction.
And clearly He told them that big honkin’ life-like rubber dildoes are unholy. Vibrators are apparently only holy if they’re smallish, and not particularly lifelike, and come in attractive shades of teal and melon.
I was interested to see that apparently Penis Pumps are holy, too.
I find the whole concept of, well, praying to Jesus about such things to be rather odd, to say the least. I mean, how, exactly, does one ask the Son of God, if it’s okay to use a vibrator on the wife? And what kind of a sign does He give in response? A thumbs up? Do the dildoes suddenly have halos?
Obviously, they feel the hand of God.
In their pants.
What, you guys have never heard of this? Weird.
OK, so it turns out religious people like sex too. And they are even of the opinion that God likes them to like sex. I do not see what is so strange about this.
BTW, would it also shock you to find out that there are entire large message boards entirely about happy sex within a religious marriage? You guys are easy to surprise.
I want to know, based on this excerpt
what unholy sex is - since homosexuality isn’t even on the radar. It’s not the sex people are laughing about - it is praying about which dildo to stock.
Since I’m not the folks who own the site, I don’t know. At a guess I would imagine, based on my own denomination’s teachings, that what they mean by “unholy” would be anything that makes one partner unhappy or feel coerced. But truly, I would recommend that you explore their website if you want to know; IIRC they have essays and such to read.
shrug I don’t spend a lot of time on these particular websites, and I haven’t read all the essays, so I don’t know exactly what they’re thinking. They’re of a very different stripe of Christianity than we are, and I don’t always get the thinking. But hey, if it makes them happy and contributes to happy sexual relationships, why complain?
http://www.christiandomesticdiscipline.com/Home.html
I think you’d be surprised how widely people can interpret their Bible (and still not necessarily be wrong.)
I have a friend who owns a chain of sex toy shops. I find nothing wrong or weird about Christians wanting to spice up their marriage. She gets all types in her shop.
What seems strange to me is that you’d need a “Christian” sex toy shop. Is a dildo sold by a Christian less sinful than one sold by a Jew? The croctchless panties are coming from the same manufacturer. But I suppose that shouldn’t seem so odd in a world where people choose their mechanic or their roofer based on having a little fishy in the ad.
I also wonder how they do business keeping their values in mind. The sex toy industry is closely tied to the sex industry. There isn’t a fast bright line between wholesalers selling dildos and wholesalers selling homosexual dominance porn - nor between those people and prostitution. I suppose there is their niche, if they follow through - in finding those vendors who are “ethical citizens.” (Not that being a producer of homosexual dominance porn makes you unethical in my own book…but…)
Well, here’s my take on it–as a semi-outsider: I don’t know that it’s so much that people want to buy from a “Christian” as they want to be able to go to a website that they feel will match up with their tastes. They don’t want to see explicit pictures, the F-word, ads for porn, stuff like that. They want to go to a website where they don’t have to worry about it and things match up with their own tastes, and there’s some advice or discussion that they can actively participate in. I suspect that if there was a Jewish sex-toy website that catered to that taste it would do just fine, just like I know people who love to buy from Orthodox clothing websites because they like long skirts. (And maybe there is one and people are linking to it–I’m not involved enough to know.)
Since I know very little about the sex toy and porn indutries, I can’t comment on that. You could certainly email the owners of the website about it; I’d love to see any answer you get.
Yes! Exactly. Hits the nail right ON the head, yes lord. 
We are collectively aware that religious Christians might find a need to spice up their marriage–that fact neither surprises nor amuses nor baffles us.
It’s the praying about which dildo to stock (yes) that we find surprising, baffling, and amusing. And the fact that the proprietors of Book 22 don’t seem to “get” that a sex toy is a sex toy, no matter who’s selling it, and that they can dress up their business by claiming piously that “Jesus told them it was okay”, but let’s face it, they’re still in the sex toy business, whether they like it or not.
And I think I found a valuable Clue to the whole thing, in their disclaimer: “We avoid any objectionable wording or pictures in the line of products we offer.”
So what kind of thing do they conspicuously NOT have featured in their inventory, what kind of thing might you logically expect to be there, what kind of thing must they therefore consider “objectionable”? Answer: lifelike representations of the penis. I therefore deduce that Mr. and Mrs. Wilson consider the penis to be objectionable, and thus they do not sell lifelike dildoes.
So now I have to wonder about people who want to help other people spice up their sex lives, who apparently feel that the penis is objectionable unless it’s halfsize, has no visible veining, and is lime green.
So I found this:
She has an ABout.com article.
I just don’t know what to think. You can’t have a lifelike dildo in bed with you–because it would constitute adultery?? But a halfsize lime-green one doesn’t count?
And they don’t sell butt plugs–but they don’t seem aware, or care, that you can use any vibrator as anal stimulation?
And, fascinatingly, she says this:
So she knows that she’s in the sex industry–but she feels she’s somehow witnessing through it. And the fact that she’s participating in an industry that also sells toys for gay bondage doesn’t seem to faze her.
The mind boggles.
No, they don’t. They have links to other websites with essays, and the Missus keeps a blog, but Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are quite frankly in the business of selling dildoes, there’s no pretense of “education” on their website.
I haven’t figured out yet whether ID Lube is Intelligent Design Lube. Seems a bit too subtle for a couple of dildo purveyors.
She mentions several times in old blog posts that their business was down considerably. No doubt their NPR piece will help with that, although I suppose Jesus will get the credit.
That I can understand. In addition to my friend, I have a friend of a friend who owns a ‘feminist’ (straight and lesbian - but her marketing is mostly targeted towards straight women) sex toy and lingerie business… no links to porn, nothing that is demeaning to women, no “in your face” crotch shorts - in some ways probably very similar - “non offensive” and fairly mainstream. Sexy. Not obscene. She provides a place where women can be comfortable shopping. (As I recall, she does home parties, but she may run a web or brick and mortar business, too - I remember parties).
It still confuses me in a similar sort of way, though.
Yeah, I would say that it’s the same sort of thing, slightly different niche. There’s probably going to be plenty of overlap there. I’ve heard that those home parties are pretty popular. BTW I’m off to work now, so I’m done for the day.