Tour of the chaste coming to Georgetown, Sex Week at Yale

Reposting for those who missed it the first time around:

Fasten your seat belts.

My upcoming' speaking dates include a talk next Wednesday at Georgetown (just days after the campus hosts the "Vagina Monologues") and two appearances at Yale University: a talk on "The Confounding Allure of Chastity" sponsored by Yale Christian Fellowship and the Veritas Forum, plus an appearance at an official Sex Week at Yale forum.

(You didn't think I'd link to the official, "adults only" Sex Week site, did you?)

The Sex Week event is a panel on "Sex and Spirituality," which, I am informed, will be about "spirituality, not religion."

It will place me alongside sex therapist/Planned Parenthood advisory board member Dr. Judy Kuriansky (whose Planned Parenthood work includes teaching teenagers how to blindfold one another), pornographer/L.A. "sex speakeasy" owner Dr. Susan Block, sexual storyteller Stevie Jay (whose Web site promises a "multi-chakra experience"), and the university's Reform Rabbi James Ponet.

In the words of St. James, and asking his intercession, I intend to "count it all joy."

The panel will not be a pile-on, the organizer assures me. Rules of civility will apply. What's more, Rabbi Ponet, the organizer says, is a proponent of saving sex until marriage.

He is also, I see, team-teaching a course this semester on "The Family in the Jewish Tradition" — with Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

Incidentally, my payment for the Yale appearances will not come from Sex Week, but rather from the sponsors of my chastity talk that will occur on campus the following night. I have not been offered payment from Sex Week, which is sponsored by a pornography manufacturer and a sex-toy shop, and in any case would not accept.

February 12

Legatus chapter meeting, Wilmington, Del., private event.

February 13

Georgetown University, ICC (Intercultural Center) Room 107, Washington, D.C. 8 p.m., free admission, open to nonstudents. Sponsored by Protestant Student Forum, Catholic Daughters of America @ Georgetown, GU Knights of Columbus, and Campus Knights of Columbus/Georgetown University.

February 17

Panel discussion on "Sex and Spirituality," part of Sex Week at Yale, WLH 119, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 6 p.m., free. Open to students, with very limited admission available for nonstudents — arrive early for a seat.

February 18

Talk on "The Confounding Allure of Chastity" at Yale University, location TBA, 7 p.m. Sponsored by Yale Christian Fellowship and Veritas Forum.

February 29

St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church young-adult dinner, Spring Hill, Fla., 6:30 p.m.

March 7-9

Church of the Holy Communion's Parish Lenten Retreat, Hendersonville, N.C.

March 29

Pre-Cana Day, Cathedral of St. Patrick, Norwich, Conn.

April 19

Connecticut Christian Singles Network seminar, details TBA, 10 a.m.

May 15

Seattle Chesterton Society, details TBA.

Pending (confirmed, but details not yet available): London, Ontario, high school tour (April), Alaska tour (May), more Seattle dates (May).

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