CrispingPin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If Mormonism is for getting sex, I obviously > didn't didn't do Mormonism correctly. ain't it the truth
Yes, his con was truly genius in terms of getting him sex with a wide variety of partners.
To me, the sick thing was that so many of his cronies bought into it, swapping out their young daughters for power, prestige, and their own young "wives." Mormonism was never any respecter of women, and very few of those men had any morals to speak of, least of all Joseph Smith.
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Giving love is free. Receiving it can make one suspicious. Well, after a life time in mormonism anyway-- you feel like you need to look under the corner.
People feel like they are incomplete without it but once they find it they are finished.
Smith couldn't afford all the wives he wanted. Young tried and was a little more successful. If it were just about sex Smith would have invented temporary spiritual wives.
I don't really buy into that Joseph Smith was the big womanizer it's claimed he was. He could get Emma pregnant so we know he wasn't shooting blanks. Where are the illegitimate children? Maybe he was just getting blow jobs.
Elisa Snow was pregnant by Joseph until Emma pushed her down the stairs ending the pregnancy.
Sylvia Lyons claimed her daughter Josephine was Joseph's. The church disputes it but as my grandma said... Grandma Sylvia knew who came in her and when.
Of course we assume Emma was faithful and Joseph was the father.
I don't really buy into that Joseph Smith was the big womanizer it's claimed he was. He could get Emma pregnant so we know he wasn't shooting blanks. Where are the illegitimate children?"
Holy Frijole!, you guys! It's time to return to your church history books!
In Fawn Brodie's book, "No Man Knows My History", chapter XXII, called "The Bennett Explosion", Ms. Brodie wrote about John Cook Bennett, a physician and abortionist, who moved to Nauvoo, as he had heard rumors of polygamy and wanted to get in on it.
If you have her book, check out the bottom of page 311, top of page 312, and the footnotes at the bottom of 312. There's likely to be more on the subject in said chapter and/or other parts of the book.
Thank you for this. Sometimes we forget that we already have answers.
I'm not sure the Bennett argument is probative by itself, but in conjunction with the first-hand accounts of honorable women it is more than enough to put to bed the notion that JS wasn't sexually active with his many "wives."
Joseph's treatment of Nancy Rigdon was enough for me. She was disgusted that he was trying to get into her skirt so he destroyed her reputation. That alone is a hallmark of who Joseph really was.
Of course, there was much more lechery and malfeasance going on as business as usual. It wouldn't surprise me if he was assassinated by his own people at Carthage. They may have felt he had it coming.
Joseph cultivated a cult leader persona that made his followers think he could do no wrong. Insiders knew the ugly truth.