{"id":50727,"date":"2013-10-15T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50727"},"modified":"2013-10-18T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T00:24:07","slug":"is-sex-addiction-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50727","title":{"rendered":"Is Sex Addiction Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2013\/10\/is-sex-addiction-real\/\">essay<\/a> in the New York Observer.<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek says: Has any male Jewish role model attained fame for reasons that included celibacy?  No.  Does the Torah (the real one) command that a Jewish man be celibate?  No.  Is there such a thing as a nun or celibate priest in Judaism?  No.  Is there such a thing as vegetarianism in Torah?  No.  Does Torah acknowledge &#8220;sex addiction&#8221;? No.  <\/p>\n<p>Each of these things is a product of gentile cultures.  It is for these reasons (and others) that Luke&#8217;s status as a Jew remains something less than 100% &#8220;Glatt Kosher&#8221;  (i.e., so authentic that none think to challenge it) in Jewish circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an essay in the New York Observer. Chaim Amalek says: Has any male Jewish role model attained fame for reasons that included celibacy? No. Does the Torah (the real one) command that a Jewish man be celibate? No. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50748,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727\/revisions\/50748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}