{"id":3150,"date":"2008-06-03T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2008-06-03T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T19:23:20","slug":"orthodox-jews-shocked-by-the-sex-in-sex-and-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Jews Shocked By The Sex In ‘Sex and the City’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard complaints from Orthodox Jews that the sex in this new movie is gratuituous.<\/p>\n

How can you have gratuituous sex in an R-rated movie called "Sex and the City" that is based on a sex-centered HBO show?<\/p>\n

What were you expecting?<\/p>\n

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It’s like going to Yale but expecting to not be held to the same rules as everybody else (such as the mandatory one year in the dorms).<\/p>\n

If you want to be authentic to Orthodox Judaism, you can’t own a TV and you can’t go to movies, certainly not R-rated movies. You can’t watch Schindler’s List because of the sex and the nudity.<\/p>\n

If you want to be authentic to Orthdox Judaism, you can’t be authentic to modernity and vice versa.<\/p>\n

If you are an Orthodox Jew, you are constantly at odds with the world around you. If you don’t feel this conflict, you’re not thinking very hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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