Dear Pastor, Regarding Your Sloppy Virginity Metaphor

Rebecca Anderson
Slackjaw
Published in
3 min readOct 13, 2020

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Dear 1990s Youth Pastor,

After watching an episode of The Golden Girls last week, my 9-year-old daughter asked me why “old people” — who can’t have babies — would want to have sex. I tackled it head-on by calmly and matter-of-factly explaining to her that we would “talk about it later.”

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Rebecca Anderson
Slackjaw

“Work” has appeared in Points in Case and Reductress.