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“It’s Not Prostitution!” – Profiting from Creation Worship and Sexual Obsession
NOTE to Reader: This Dicta exposes cultural sexual sin that many may (and should) find shocking. This content, though not graphically portrayed, is not suitable for younger readers.
The material world, as created by God, is good.[1] God created mankind in His own likeness and image.[2] That very design of humanity consists of complementary sexual dimorphs: male and female.[3] The intimacy between husband and wife is good[4]and its purity should be protected.[5] Procreating, that is, being fruitful and multiplying, partially advances the creational mandate, and is good.[6] Chosen celibacy by avoiding marriage is not some “higher form” of spirituality as some traditions teach.[7] God gifts His very image with sex and sexuality.
Yet, sin quickly attacks and degrades not only those made in God’s image,[8] but also His design for sexuality within monogamous marriage.[9]
As Paul explains, such incidents do not simply comprise random “moral lapses”. Rather, they reflect the consequence of false worship: worshipping the creation, rather than the Creator.[10] And while the Fall impacts all of creation including man’s faculties,[11] sin’s impact pools around sexual defiance as fallen humanity dishonors their bodies in generally, and distorts their sexually in particular:
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.[12]
None of this is particularly new for attentive bible readers, nor for those familiar with TxC’s ministry. What may be new and of interest is how this sexual depravity is being increasingly commercialized and packaged as “wellness” – without shame – for profit.[13] Enter the world of sex parties.[14]
The following evaluates the worldview animating these phenomena rather than simply reporting on rampant sexual immorality. Instead, we consider how the culture is describing and categorizing such things, as reported by Xochitl Gonzalez.[15] Let’s get to the gist.
Gonzalez commences her reporting by making a point I have never pondered: the distinction between orgies and sex parties– evidently, there is a difference in this new sexual ecosystem:
Should you find yourself invited to a sex party, it might be helpful to know that you are not obliged to have sex. You can listen to music or watch performances, observe your fellow guests, and, with permission, touch them. But no one will consider it rude should you leave without having sex. If you’re invited to an orgy, however, that’s a whole different ball of wax, and people will most certainly be offended if you don’t participate.[16]
Though this conduct is rankly immoral, that doesn’t mean it lacks “rules.”[17] Consider orgies and sex parties during COVID:
New York’s former COVID czar acknowledged participating in what the New York Post called “drug-fueled sex parties”—during the first year of the pandemic, no less. . . . Each participant, he says, took a COVID test before having sex.[18]
One can fornicate with strangers with reckless abandon, exposing oneself to varieties of venereal diseases, but heaven forbid anyone sneezes in the process and someone else contracts a cold or COVID. What a warped view of “loving one’s neighbor” in the name of good public health practices.
Don’t miss this larger point: Sex clubs provide “cover” and facilitate these “COVID-free” bacchanalian gatherings – for a steep monetary price. Folks pay so that they gain access to others willing to sexually experiment. So long as one consents and doesn’t sneeze, anything goes.
Yet, note again, despite all this patent immorality, these hosts and clubs are quick to invoke a moral dimension to justify their business. They do this through a self-righteous moral lens of virtue-signaling, claiming: “It’s not prostitution”[19] – thereby seeking to excuse and justify this deviate behavior. As Gonzalez reports:
To be clear, these clubs are not brothels—guests have sex with one another, not with the club’s employees. Some say that they are putting on performances of “high erotic art”; others want to promote “equitable pleasure.” They all try to sell erotic experimentation less as a means of gratification than as a moral virtue.[20]
Selling sex as “moral virtue” instead of mere boundless lust comes with a steep price tag – literally “pay to play”:
Snctm [a particular Beverly Hills club] members pay $12,500 or more a year for access to masquerade parties that can cost upwards of $2,000 a ticket. KNKY Rabbit, a sex club in L.A., offers annual memberships that range from $10,000 for the “Fluffy Tail” level to $250,000 for the “Burrow Elite Membership.” NSFW, an exclusive sex club in New York, also has a tiered membership. The most basic, a reasonable $300, gets you access to a members’ chat group and invitations to parties. The “Tribute” and “Status” tiers can range from $750 to $2,500. Members, referred to as “lovers,” can purchase VIP-party upgrades for $1,000 a piece, or hire NSFW to create custom play experiences for themselves and their friends, starting at $5,000. Memberships are for life.[21]
But, it’s “not prostitution. . . .” Keep repeating this mantra while claiming to experience “moral virtue.”
But there’s something more being packaged and sold here beyond multiplying sex partners and satiating lust: Notice the focus on gaining knowledge and enlightenment via these serial sexual experiences – in other words achieving true happiness via ritualistic Gnostic practices. As another club explains:
NSFW stands for New Society for Wellness, its owners say. The club claims more than 10,000 members around the world, and considers itself as much a movement as a club, dedicated, according to its mission statement, to helping members “Live Adventurously”: “We believe sex is a gift that should be explored, honored and mastered through experience and education. Knowledge gained from expanding your sexual wisdom is one path to real happiness.”[22]
Many sex cultists preach this same message and have done so in one form or another for millennia – the pitch is: it’s not really about sex so much as it’s about personal growth and wellness – masquerading the acts’ inherent immorality.[23] Sin shines a shortcut to self-enlightenment and success – it’s as old as the Serpent’s seductive whispers to Eve and to Jesus.
And, just as the serpent knew that the Garden’s fruit was “a delight to the eyes”,[24] so too does pulchritude play a huge factor for attaining sex club membership:
Members are not just rich and influential; they’re beautiful. Particularly the women, who at many parties are eligible for reduced-price or free admission. At clubs like KNKY Rabbit, applicants submit photos in addition to describing their sexual desires. Artés confirmed that Snctm screens “based on appearance”:“While we are inclusive of race, religion, gender identity, and everything like that, we do want a party of beautiful people.”[25]
What could go wrong??! Apparently, a lot. And, deep bad consequences do occur. As one owner admitted:
Cortes said he’s seen people have breakthroughs and breakdowns at parties as they process shame, religious guilt, or past sexual trauma. The club offers aftercare workshops, and brings in experts for talks about sexuality and religion and combatting heteronormativity.[26]
If all this libertine sexual expression brings enlightenment and wellness, why are there so many casualties, physical and psychological? Why are “experts” needed to stew around all these Humpty Dumpty broken lives? Might it just have something to do with operating their sexual lives contrary to the Owner’s Manuel, like putting sugar water in a car’s fuel tank?
Maybe “the science” of high-tech can lend a hand here. Consider how the Silicon Valley Bro-techies describe sex party sexuality: it’s merely a “design solution.” Technos supplants Telos.[27] Marriage becomes simply an operating system, a commodity, needing an upgrade:
It’s easy to draw a line from the libertines attracted to high-end sex clubs to the “move fast and break things” ethos of Silicon Valley technocrats. And the kink industry is thriving in the valley. In a Medium post, the product designer Chris Messina, famous in some circles for “inventing” the hashtag, described nonmonogamy as nothing more or less than a design solution: “Out here, we’re data-positive and solution-oriented and if your product (i.e. marriage) is failing for 50% of your customers, then you need to fix it or offer something better.”[28]
Notice the hubris dripping here: The Creator who designed sex and sexuality “blew it” and His “product” needs serious upgrading. This tech-bro fellow needs to be soberly reminded of who’s actually in the dock. He should consider sex and sexuality, not via his job, but via Job:
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone,
when the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
“Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
when I made clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
and prescribed limits for it
and set bars and doors,
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
“Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
and caused the dawn to know its place,
that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
and the wicked be shaken out of it?
It is changed like clay under the seal,
and its features stand out like a garment.
From the wicked their light is withheld,
and their uplifted arm is broken.
“Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
Declare, if you know all this.
“Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
and where is the place of darkness,
that you may take it to its territory
and that you may discern the paths to its home?
You know, for you were born then,
and the number of your days is great!
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war?
What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,
or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain
and a way for the thunderbolt,
to bring rain on a land where no man is,
on the desert in which there is no man,
to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
and to make the ground sprout with grass?
“Has the rain a father,
or who has begotten the drops of dew?
From whose womb did the ice come forth,
and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?
The waters become hard like stone,
and the face of the deep is frozen.
“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades
or loose the cords of Orion?
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,
or can you guide the Bear with its children?
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you establish their rule on the earth?
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
that a flood of waters may cover you?
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go
and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts
or given understanding to the mind?
Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
when the dust runs into a mass
and the clods stick fast together?
“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,
or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
when they crouch in their dens
or lie in wait in their thicket?
Who provides for the raven its prey,
when its young ones cry to God for help,
and wander about for lack of food? (ESV)
“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the does?
Can you number the months that they fulfill,
and do you know the time when they give birth,
when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?
Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
they go out and do not return to them.
“Who has let the wild donkey go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
to whom I have given the arid plain for his home
and the salt land for his dwelling place?
He scorns the tumult of the city;
he hears not the shouts of the driver.
He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
and he searches after every green thing.
“Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
Will he spend the night at your manger?
Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes,
or will he harrow the valleys after you?
Will you depend on him because his strength is great,
and will you leave to him your labor?
Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain
and gather it to your threshing floor?
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
For she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground,
forgetting that a foot may crush them
and that the wild beast may trample them.
She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
because God has made her forget wisdom
and given her no share in understanding.
When she rouses herself to flee,
she laughs at the horse and his rider.
“Do you give the horse his might?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
Do you make him leap like the locust?
His majestic snorting is terrifying.
He paws in the valley and exults in his strength;
he goes out to meet the weapons.
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
he does not turn back from the sword.
Upon him rattle the quiver,
the flashing spear, and the javelin.
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’
He smells the battle from afar,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars
and spreads his wings toward the south?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes his nest on high?
On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
on the rocky crag and stronghold.
From there he spies out the prey;
his eyes behold it from far away.
His young ones suck up blood,
and where the slain are, there is he.”
And the LORD said to Job:
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
He who argues with God, let him answer it.”[29]
These bold sexualists reject the Creator and His design. And in doing so, they also despise His rules. In other words, they reject both the Lawgiver and His law. Gonzalez uncovers this prime motive fueling these participants:
One of the things that draws people like these to sex parties is the fact that the standard rules don’t apply, that they’re places where the answer to every desire seems to be yes.[30]
A discerning reader immersed in Scripture will quickly see how this reflects the pagan antinomian ethos of Psalm 2 as well as how the apostles describe those without Christ, who in fact become Christ’s enemies:
Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
“Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”[31]
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.[32]
But there is hope. Not in redesigning sexuality nor ignoring rules, nor in following the desires of your heart.[33] Sexuality doesn’t need redesigning but redeeming. Hope stems from bowing to this Creator, whose character is mercy, and kissing His Son. He provides via Christ a true transformation. He provides true wellness and healing. He provides true flourishing. Because: He is love.[34] This means we can say confidently:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.[35]
It is by trumpeting these truths unabashedly that TxC Informs the Public, Equips the Church, and Protects the Future. Join with us – in pray and financial support – so that many more can joyfully realize “such were some of you.”
[1] Gen. 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 25 and “God saw everything he had made, and behold, it was very good.” (v. 31)
[2] Gen. 1:27
[3] Gen. 1:27
[4] Gen. 2:18
[5] Heb. 13:4
[6] Gen. 1:28
[7] Such pietistic notions are dualistic, if not platonic, or even Gnostic. God does require – for our good – chastity outside of marriage.
[8] Cain murders his brother, Abel (Gen. 4:8)
[9] Boastful Lamech took two wives. (Gen. 4:19); and of course sin alienated Adam and Eve, disrupting the marital community’s repose.
[10] Romans 1:25
[11] This is popularly known in Reformed circles as “total depravity,” a term often misconstrued to mean mankind is as bad as possible. Actually, the term refers to sin impacting man’s entire being. See, e.g., R.C. Sproul, TULIP and Reformed Theology: Total Depravity, https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/tulip-and-reformed-theology-total-depravity
[12] Romans 1:24-25. This dishonoring, if unchecked, expresses itself in homosexual behavior – verses 26, and 27.
[13] Another stark example of “those who call evil good and good evil.” (Is. 5:20)
[14] Xochitl Gonzalez, What’s Up With All the Sex Parties? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/wealthy-sex-party-trend/680807/
[15] See, note 14
[16] Id.
[17] Law is an inescapable concept. Even the Mafia, as corrupt as it is, has rules. See, e.g.,https://lacosanostraroleplay.weebly.com/cosa-nostra-code-of-conduct.html. Rules in any social structure dimly reflect “loving one’s neighbor” – an echo of the law written on the heart. (Romans 2:15)
[18] Id. note 14
[19] Paul notes that fallen man’s conscience seeks to either accuse or excuse his unrighteous conduct: “[T]heir conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them,” Romans 2:15
[20] Id. note 14
[21] Id.
[22] Id.
[23] One recent example making headlines: E.J. Dickson, A Silicon Valley “Orgasm Cult” Has Been Sued for Sex Trafficking,https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/onetaste-orgasm-cult-lawsuit-sex-trafficking-1234890660/: “Founded in 2004 by [Nocole] Daedone, OneTaste was marketed as a sexual wellness company that peddled the benefits of orgasmic meditation, or “OM-ing.””
[24] Gen. 3:6; note the same tactic used by the devil to temp Jesus: Matt 4:8,9
[25] Id. note 14
[26] Id. note 14
[27] Jeffery J. Ventrella, From Telos to Technos – Implications for a Christian Public Life and Ethic (2017)
[28] Id. note 14
[29] Job 38:4-40:1
[30] Id note 14.
[31] Ps. 2:1-3
[32] Phil. 3:18,19
[33] Thaddeus Willilams, Don’t Follow Your Heart – Boldly Breaking the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship (2023)
[34] 1 John 4:8
[35] 1 Cor. 6:9-11