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In this controversial chapter, Lewis vigorously defends the Christian doctrine of chastity—in other words, refraining from sex before marriage (and, a little less controversially, engaging in nothing but monogamous intercourse afterwards). Chapter 5 is one of the most dated in Mere Christianity, not only because of the arguments Lewis presents, but because of the prim, evasive tone that Lewis adopts while making them; one has the uncomfortable sense that even writing about sex makes Lewis feel dirty.
Lewis offers the following analogy as “proof” that something is wrong with modernity’s conception of sexuality: imagine a hypothetical country in which…
