{"id":52265,"date":"2015-11-09T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/justine_toh-great_sexpectations_augustine_ashley_madison_and_the_problem_o\/"},"modified":"2015-11-09T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:00:52","slug":"justine_toh-great_sexpectations_augustine_ashley_madison_and_the_problem_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52265","title":{"rendered":"Justine Toh&#8211;Great Sexpectations: Augustine, Ashley Madison and the Problem of Disordered Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ashley Madison hack may have faded from the headlines but one of its key revelations lingers on in our cultural conversations about sex.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s present in more recent offerings like Rachel Hills&#8217;s book The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality and the romantic comedy Sleeping with Other People, currently showing in cinemas.<\/p>\n<p>That this theme should crop up so repeatedly suggests that we need to be constantly reminded of it &#8211; no great surprise, really, since sex is often something that can (if you pardon the phrase) screw with our thinking, feeling, and desiring.<\/p>\n<p>What each of these sex stories reinforces, again and again, is that all of us have great sexpectations that remain, frequently, unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/articles\/2015\/11\/09\/4347901.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ashley Madison hack may have faded from the headlines but one of its key revelations lingers on in our cultural conversations about sex. It&#8217;s present in more recent offerings like Rachel Hills&#8217;s book The Sex Myth: The Gap Between<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52265\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,175,94,92,168,104,98,89,125,177,129,108,112,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-men","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}