April 21, 2008

We're Not Gonna Take It Any Moore

Hot on the heels of the NYT's profile of the Harvard Chastity Club comes a new crusader for close-legged justice, University of Illinois student and motivational speaker Taylor Moore. Moore's speaking engagements, which encourage kids to become lawfully-wedded coupes before they, as she puts it, "release the beast." Why? "For this is the will of God," of course.

Unlike the leader of the Harvard Club, J. Fredell, Moore's reasons for staying a virgin are slightly moot. While Fredell waxes poetic about God, feminism, and falsified statistics, Moore's speeches are more emotional. She talks of being the daughter of a single parent, an unwillingness to form bonds both platonic and sexual, and the same devotion to God of which Fredell speaks.

The article is mainly about abstinence-only education and funding, so the profiling of Moore is a tad out of place. Nevertheless, she's an interesting figure, and perhaps more of an accurate representation of the abs-only crowd than her Ivy-League compatriot.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wait, what? Do you want to fuck like bunnies or to wait until your mid-fourties to have distant, unemotional INTERCOURSE IN THE MISSIONARY POSITION.

Plz explain.