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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Kelsy Burke received funding from the University of Pittsburgh as well as the Association for the Sociology of Religion with this research.
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Numerous headlines within the previous week have speculated publicly in the sex life of Jerry Falwell Jr. along with his spouse Becki Falwell.
An investigative report in Reuters alleges that Falwell Jr. was a complicit voyeur in his wife’s affair with a former pool attendant and business partner while both Falwells have told the press that the scandal is, more or less, all Becki’s fault. Falwell has rejected these allegations.
Falwell resigned as president of Liberty University, the ultra-conservative college that is evangelical by their dad on Aug. 25.
As being a sociologist who’s got invested years learning the whole world of online Christian sex advice community forums and blog sites, I have read stories from evangelical Christians whom look to the net to talk freely about their activities that are sexual desires.
Predicated on this research, we argue that the Falwell’s scandal fits into a wider tale about sex characteristics within element of an evangelical intimate tradition. (more…)