Joanna C. Chestnut Suggests that TRUE LOVE WAITS in New Book

From the creative and highly imaginative writer Joanna C. Chestnut comes a highly interesting and deeply meaningful volume that tackles the importance of saving sex for marriage. This book is not based on religious reasons but rather on establishing real intimacy prior to sharing a physical experience. True Love Waits promotes saving sex for marriage after a courtship long enough to get to know your potential partner on all levels of a relationship: intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. The author's social conservativism is not based on any religious teachings. Rather, it is based on achieving a holistic intimacy with one's boyfriend or girlfriend before becoming physically intimate. The book describes the author's journey from the hippie days of free love to a conservative philosophy of waiting for marriage. Her transformation is a direct result of growing up in the 1950s and her teenage years in the late 1960s as well as her raising six children over the course of forty years.

Excerpt from True Love Waits:

I believe the cheapening of the physical union between couples and the buying and selling of sex as a commodity does all of us a disservice. Sex sells because we are an obsessed society that places great value on immediate gratification. We can't be bothered to get to know our partner first and are only interested in "getting laid," which I've always thought was a very vulgar way to talk about what could be the most beautiful experience there is in life.

The author believes that today's society is a vulgar, crude and disrespectful culture when it comes to sex. She deems that the current American society is obsessed with sex and doesn't connect the sexual experience with intimacy. This book shows how to change that and elevate the sexual union to the spiritual and emotional experience it was meant to be.

Chestnut aims that readers will learn a new concept of platonic intimacy prior to sexual intimacy. She also wants them to see that it is not only conservatives who promote abstinence before marriage. Liberals can also support sex as something sacred and promote getting to know someone before jumping into bed with them.

True Love Waits is different in two major ways. First, it explains how a politically liberal person can also be a social conservative. Secondly, this book encourages couples (gay or straight) to wait and establish heart, mind and soul intimacy in order to raise the physical union and marriage to the sacred experiences they should be.

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About the Author

Joanna C. Chestnut was born and raised in a small town in New Jersey during the 1950s and 1960s. From 1972 until today, she has raised six children, five of whom are adopted. Joanna earned a bachelor's degree from Jacksonville University in Florida and a master's degree in nonprofit administration from Greenwich University. From 1981 to 1991, Chestnut worked for an environmental law firm, Sierra Legal Defense Fund (now called Earthjustice). She then worked in a human-services agency providing oversight for a drug-and-alcohol program for women and infants. In 1998, Joanna became a grant writer and, for over ten years, helped fund nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and her husband and four of their children relocated to the Seattle, Washington, area in July of 2008. Having been divorced from her husband of twenty-six years in May 2012, she now lives outside of Seattle; with her two youngest children, ages eighteen and nineteen.

TRUE LOVE WAITS* by Joanna C. Chestnut
How a Hippie Peace Freak Became a Social Conservative
Publication Date: May 23, 2013
Trade Paperback; $15.99; 121 pages; 978-1-4836-3015-1
Trade Hardback; $22.99; 121 pages; 978-1-4836-3016-8
eBook; $3.99; 978-1-4836-3017-5

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