LG tags: Documentary, Evangelical, Relationships, Sex, Purity
In an effort to help you know what to expect from each festival event and to decide which events you’ll most enjoy, we’ve created a Level Ground tagging system.
Give Me Sex Jesus
(Directed by Matt Barber, not yet released/test screening)
Give Me Sex Jesus is a documentary film that explores the culture of American Evangelical Christianity’s teaching on sex. Specifically it looks at the purity movement of the last twenty years as represented by the “True Love Waits” campaign and the implications of this movement, its successes, shortcomings, and failures. The film features interviews with pastors, Christian leaders, educators, individuals, sociologists, psychologists, thinkers, historians, virgins, sex workers, members of the LGBT community, divorced people, those who waited for marriage, those who didn’t, and other note-worthy experts.
This film, much like Level Ground, seeks to be a catalyst for dialogue around faith and sexuality — with all its various intersecting elements. Is there a better way to speak about faith and sexuality that does not feed into the rhetoric and posture of the existing culture wars? Can we engage these topics without reducing them to problematic and simplistic sound bites? This is a film for the the experienced and the curious alike. (J.K.)