Sunday school

Today's Relief Society lesson was on Chastity.

What to say about that then?

Well Mormons are quite strict about being chaste and modest.

Here are the rules;

Sexual relations are to be had in the bounds of legal marriage

between a husband and a wife.

They obviously are legally married to each other.

What does this mean?

Basically no sex outside of being married

none before, afterwards* or on the side**.

But to make it even more complex,
chastity as a subject leads on to conversations about modesty.

It's a safer topic.

There was lots of talk about this amongst my Sisters in class.
Those with teenage daughters
(some of whom were there)
talked about choosing your battles
but we all pretty much agreed that having respect for yourself
and dressing to celebrate your femininity is important
As Pansy*** put it
"Your dresses should be tight enough so you feel like a women,
but loose enough you feel like a lady."

Coincidentally Cjane happened to post a vlog about this very thing
the modesty thing not the chastity thing
though she could and being pregnant it could go over quite well.
I wonder if she can do it without laughing?

Here's Cjane's explanation.

LATER: It got removed!  Never mind.

* By afterwards I mean if you are widowed but let's be honest divorce happens.  Did anyone else learn to spell divorce from a country song?

** Just to be really clear - Mormons do not practice polygamy that's the Fundamental Latter-day Saints not us.

*** One of the still teenage daughters and former flatmate of mine