Caroline Overington; 14/7/08
There are a couple of things that people want to know about Dawn Eden. First, could that be her real name? Second, how long since she last had sex? The first question is easy to answer. Dawn and Eden are her first and second names (she was born in 1968 when her parents were immersed in a Californian hippy culture); her real last name is Goldstein but she dropped it years ago “because I got tired of people who saying, ‘Oh, you’re Jewish’.” Eden was born Jewish; now she’s Catholic and proudly chaste, which explains why people so often want to know when she last had sex, and why she gave it up. The answer is “complicated”. “I became a Christian in October 1999 but I did not immediately walk the talk. For a while, it was sin, repent, sin, repent. “After a while, say after October 2003, I felt in my heart that I should begin living the way God wanted me to live.” Eden’s book, The Thrill of the Chaste explores her journey from a sexually active rock music journalist in New York City in the 1990s, to her new life as a Catholic. During World Youth Day events beginning tomorrow in Sydney she will speak about her chastity and her conversion.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24013339-28737,00.html
Tags: Christianity, Sexuality, USA