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What Christians Say During Sex

57 What Christians Say During Sex The hipster christians are rolling their jeans up making shorts out of pants, making fashion out of fashion, and I’m watching it all happen in a coffee shop called Ugly Mugs, and I haven’t seen a mug since I got here (paper cups and cookies served on recycled napkins). A disappointingly straight man is talking to another straight man about Christ, about devotion to the Lord while his wife sits beside them on the couch staring out the wall-length windows at the street, the trees, the sun drooping in and out of clouds. She smiles because she’s proud of him. She smiles because there’s nothing to say. He has beautiful arms, the kind that would glisten if he did push-ups with his shirt off, or someone nailed him to a cross. I shaved my head last night, he says, and I look at his ears to see if the line is even. I wonder if they talk dirty during sex? Does she say, I need you to fuck me? Does he say, I want to eat your pussy? Or is it a sin to say it like that even when you’re married? I’m looking for someone, he says, to play guitar for my band, someone committed to Christ. I wonder what they smell like after sex? I wonder what Jesus does for them, what they think Christ’s face will look like when they get to heaven? ...