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Posted on May 31, 2007

Faced with the daunting, fork-in-the-road-of-life dilemma of whether to choose her Catholic church affiliation over her job of selling sex toys (that classic conundrum), Wisconsin churchgoer Linette Servais told her incensed priest that she would relinquish her position as the congregation’s, um, organist in favor of keeping her toy-peddling gig.


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Apparently after meeting with Linette Servais, who is 50 and apparently does most of her work for no pay, to express his dissatisfaction with her other work (you know, the work that pays), Rev. Dean Dombroski sent a letter to his congregation explaining that “Linette is a consultant for a firm which sells products of a sexual nature that are not consistent with Church teachings” and that she would have to make a decision. Linette, who says she started selling sex toys after treatment for a tumor left her experiencing sexual dysfunction, says the decision was easy; she’s still selling sex toys.

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By SCHIL, February 10 at 2:27 am #
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I agree that sex toys do not go against the teachings of the bible, as they are used to enhance the sexual relationship between husband and wife…  But does anyone agree that sex is to be confidential between a man and his wife.  That sexual activities should be between them alone, and not be a light-hearted topic between many other people in a sex toy-inhome party.  I think that if a couple wants to discretely obtain a sex toy and use it, that would be fine.  But for christians to go to “parties” and have open conversations about sexual positions and manuevers, and images of nude persons for “demonstrational” purposes i think is wrong.  Images that could very well provoke ungodly lust?  Does anyone know of any bible passages that would agree/ disagree with these views? I appreciate it if they would post them.

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By erika chong, December 24, 2008 at 6:22 am #
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have any of you fools try it? if not can i have some simple!

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By Jessy, November 13, 2008 at 1:47 pm #

As a former Catholic turned Atheist turned online sex toy salesgirl (well, still an atheist, lol), I will happily say that she’s much better off!

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By sex toys, April 22, 2008 at 12:48 pm #
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thanks God I was born Catholic, now sex always will be dirty

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By Nelson, August 14, 2007 at 12:45 pm #
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I think she should be ashamed of herself.
She chose to do satan’s filthy work than to repent and do God’s.

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By Verla Mae, June 1, 2007 at 7:46 pm #
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LOLOL!

I agree with Rage. How dare they look at the thin sliver in my eye when there is a 2 X 4 hanging from theirs!

What’s with these folks? The woman works from home for NOTHING! That she donates her body to “science” is her business. And, entirely too much info.

I can’t believe sex toys is that pertinant an issue discussed in church. I mean, I belong to church. The most Bible I’ve ever gotten I read today in Rage’s post. I even been to see Joyce Mayer! All I got from her was how to stay faithful to Herman.

That this poor woman was put out of church over this is funny, tragic, and troubling. Did this jerk pastor of her just sit around waiting to catch her buzzing off with her sex toys before he sent her the letter cutting her off from the rest of the flock? None of that sounds Christ-like to me.

Can her offerings be refunded, or will she have to sue for that?

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By MARIAM RUSSELL, June 1, 2007 at 1:59 pm #
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As I have said, repeatedly, in the debate over a woman´s right to make her own healthcare and procreation choices…..JUST SAY NO, BUY SOME SEX TOYS, TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN NEEDS TILL THE MALE POPULATION, WHO CONTROL OUR WORLD, DECIDES TO BUT OUT. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PUT YOUR LIFE IN JEOPARDY FOR A FEW MINUTES OF PLEASURE.

SO, I CAN ONLY SAY THAT THIS LADY HAS HER PRIORITIES IN ORDER.

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By rage, June 1, 2007 at 1:31 pm #
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I have read the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible from cover to cover, and have yet to find anywhere a declaration of sinfulness in sexual self-gratification. There really isn’t that much information regulating sex. The Bible pronouncements on human sexuality can be boiled down to forbidding us to take sexual advantage of one another, to sexually abuse one another, to covet the spouses or concubines of others, to engage in coital relations outside the human species (no doing the ox herd), and to defraud or misrepresent ourselves sexually to one another to enjoy a relationship we would not have enjoyed under less disingenuous circumstances. Whoredom in the Bible is only damnable when one or both parties violated vows of fidelity to others to whom they were either married or betrothed. Loving another, however, is noted as frequently occurring, even permitted premaritally between the betrothed pairs. Men were pretty much expected to seek the sexual comfort of sexual service providers (the harlot that lived ‘round the way), classes of sexual servants being employed by the wealthy soley for that purpose.

I know Saint Paul’s view of marriage was in keeping with his own marital experience as an unmarried missionary. Paul honestly wished that every follower of Jesus had his fortitude to remain single and devoted only to the mission of the Kingdom of God, but was well aware that we are way too human for that. His intentions, howerver, were to keep the fledgling church on message. Knowing what he knew, Paul worked hard to place the Message of Jesus, not the lives of His Followers, in the forefront as the primary objective of spreading the news of the GOSPEL. Paul’s goal was never to render sex to be illegal outside of a Church marriage. Though Paul declared that it was better to marry than to burn with an addressed lust, he never meant that GOD ordered us to marry, lest we burn. Paul said to let NOT fornication be mentioned among us, not to legalize assexual living, but to keep us from dwelling so on our sexual pasts we failed to see a GODLY future.

We are sexual by virtue of our humanity. Paul, Jesus, and the Patriarchs and Prophets of the Old Testement all knew that GOD was well aware of the sexual nature of His Human Creation. Thus, NONE of them sanctioned a forbidding of marriage or set restrictive laws for human sexuality. Read the Bible from cover to cover. Folks are having so much sex until the relationship of Jesus to His Redeemed, His Bride, is exhaustively and peotically born out in very sexual terms throughout the Bible. GOD knew how to reach us in terms He was certain we clearly understood. Saint John in his Revelation from Jesus assured us that, in the end, GOD was going to judge us all for the deeds committed in our lives, naming specifically in a list of human actions fornication, adultry, and same sex relationships. King Solomon, a man with coveted sexual history, said in Ecclesiastes to go on and live your life, becuase GOD was going to judge our convictions and deepest intentions in the end. Thus, all these humanly ordained institutional authorities need to back up on their selfrighteous legalistic intrusion into our personal sexual affairs. The way these interferring busibodies seek to control us and sexually repress us is simply satanic. Furthermore, the restaints they presume to impose is not the intention of GOD. These religious hypocrits are antichrist and anathema in that they will very deliberately misinterpret the Bible message to set institutional standards and prejudices in the place of the Judgement of GOD. How dare these idiots cover the sin and crime of child molestation, but disenfranchize the faithful for masturbation. GOD WILL JUDGE!

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By jatihoon, June 1, 2007 at 1:12 pm #

If there is no sex, there is no priest and if there is no priest, there is no pope and if there is no pope there is no catholic ” God”, so you decide. He who uses sex toys do enjoy. Try it you will like it,REV D.D

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By rowdy, June 1, 2007 at 1:17 am #

with 3 presidential candidates admitting they don’t believe in evolution,this comes as no surprise. KKKristian madness. bush has given 2 billion of your tax dollars to support this kind of mindlessness.

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By DennisD, May 31, 2007 at 11:15 pm #
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I guess “faith based” bill paying wasn’t getting it done. Can’t wait for the “Sex Toy Story” to come out. It should make for some interesting Hollywood casting calls.

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By James V, May 31, 2007 at 10:54 pm #

What I “pray” for is that all of these religious nut-jobs abstain from sex all together so that not only will future generations be free of their madness but in a pleasingly ironic twist they would also put the evolution-creationism argument to rest at the same time!

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By Herk, May 31, 2007 at 10:11 pm #

Churches feel a need to control sex lives - after all, sex is the source of the next cash crop for the church. No new members, no more church.

Of course, this is quite the tempest in a teapot, given the bawdy history of bordellos in Italy, even to the extent of calling the Vatican itself a bordello as popes and priests alike debauched there. This same church that protects child molesters and moves them around to allow them to continue their despicable acts wants to pretend that it’s the dispensary of sexual morals.

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By Tom Doff, May 31, 2007 at 7:53 pm #
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Could this be a power play initiated by the Rev. Dean Dombroski, who, miffed that he was not considered enough of a ‘sex toy’ to be included in Linette’s ‘Sexual Products Catalog’, is attempting to force his way into the next issue?

But he better be careful, and not overplay his hand. Look at the sweet gig he has, plenty of captive kids to diddle, an endless supply of the Pope’s Holy Condoms, should he choose to ignore the Church strictures against their use, an almost perfect isolation from sexual predator indictments, in fact, to the contrary, an expectation that he will perform pedophilic services.

Do lay catholics really understand that the only two Church- and God-Approved sexual practices are monogamous, marital, missionary-position un-safe sex; and indiscriminate, homo- and hetero-sexual pedophilic sodomic practices performed by priests and other members of the catholic heirarchy?

He (and They) do work in Mysterious Ways.

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By Tom Doff, May 31, 2007 at 7:38 pm #
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Could this be a power play by the Rev. Dean Dombroski, who, miffed that he is not considered enough of a ‘sex toy’ to be listed in Linette’s ‘Sexual Product Catalog, is attempting to force his inclusion in the next issue?

But he should be careful of overplaying his hand, look at the sweet gig he has, plenty of captive kids to diddle, an endless supply of the Pope’s Holy Condoms, almost perfect insulation from sexual predator indictments, quite the opposite, in fact, the expectation that he will perform pedophilic services.

And, the crazy authorization to protest ‘Non-Church and Non-God-Approved’ sexual practices.

Do lay catholics really understand that monogamous marital missionary-position un-safe sex, and indiscriminate hetero- and homo-sexual pedophilic sodomic practices performed by priests and other catholic hierarchy are the only two forms of Church- and God-Approved sex?

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