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All of Me: 3 Reasons Why I’m Waiting for Marriage

By | March 19, 2013

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I’m 29 and a virgin.

No, I don’t have some incurable alien disease that causes people to shutter at the sight of me. No, I don’t have the sex drive of a grandma (unless it’s my grandma who had 11 kids). And, no, I’m not Tim Tebow’s girlfriend.

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The Bikini Battle: Sexy vs. Beautiful

By | May 23, 2012

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But I do care about my brothers’ purity, and want to help them out by not wearing what is basically a bra and underwear to the beach and inviting them to lust over all that is, ahem, “hanging out.”

Also, I want to be the type of woman who inspires men to holiness and beauty and not lures men to lust and my booty. See what I did there?

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To Hook Up or Not To Hook Up?: Is it a Big Deal?

By | February 6, 2012

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One night in high school, my ex-boyfriend’s best friend called me up. He told me that he and his girlfriend, and my ex-boyfriend, were all hanging out, and that I should come over. From the tone in his voice and slight innuendo in his words, I knew what this meant.

My ex-boyfriend and I had played the “friends with benefits” game before. Thus I wasn’t surprised and actually felt a bit flattered that this popular, talented, good-looking guy would beckon me to him, even if we weren’t still dating.

I excitedly rushed over to the best friend’s house, greeted everyone, and proceeded to “hang out” exclusively with my ex-boyfriend. I didn’t see anything wrong with making-out with my ex-boyfriend, because after all, I wasn’t having sex.

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What a Girl REALLY Wants in a Guy

By | February 11, 2011

If I told you that all girls desired a guy who has fame like Robert Pattinson, fortune like 50 Cent, skills like LeBron, chops like Mayer, hair like Bieber, and abs like the Situation, 99.9% of you would throw your hands up in despair and slink into sloth-dom, playing Angry Birds for the rest of your teenage life. Thankfully, you can breathe a sigh of relief and know that the most complex creature in all of creation—WOMAN—is pretty simple when it comes to what she wants in a guy. While movies, Read more [...]

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