Op Ed: The Way Church Talked About Sex in My Youth Is Now Affecting Marriage

As a sixth grader, I went to a big Christian summer camp where the speaker said to thousands of us, “Hi, my name is Dave and I’ll be your speaker this week. I came with Lauren, my smoking hot wife.”At the time, I accepted this as fact. “That’s Dave and he has a smoking hot wife. And he’s going to tell me about a relationship with Jesus.”In hindsight, however, I kind of want to throw up. I’m sure Dave said a lot of great things that night, but over the years, the “smoking hot wife” line stayed wi