Father of 22, 14 Mothers Reveals A Generation In Trouble Says Christian Abstinence Advocate

July 25, 2013 - PRLog -- Dianna Hobbs, the award-winning urban faith-based media specialist and author of The New A-list: Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (http://www.thenewalist.com) (NyreePress), available July 29, is hitting back against a culture that celebrates sexual promiscuity and frowns upon purity.

According to her, "The fact that Orlando Shaw,  the 33-year-old father of 22 children by 14 different women is being offered a reality show, indicates that our culture needs a reality check."

But instead of focusing primarily on what is wrong in a society that places promiscuity on a pedastal, Hobbs has chosen to highlight a much better, more hopeful development.

“Slowly but surely, the taboo is lifting off virginity and abstinence,” says Hobbs, who just released the official “A-list” book trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXhaBB8cD0k) highlighting how popular and raunchy mainstream artists like Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Miguel, and 2 Chainz tease and tantalize with their seductive lyrics and personas.



Despite some of the more troubling trends in entertainment culture, Hobbs sees a positive trend emerging at the same time.

“More and more Christians like Lolo Jones, Tim Tebow, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin, are coming out of the closet so-to-speak about their abstinence journey,” Hobbs notes, adding, “This gives other singles courage and hope that they, too, can wait.”

In The New A-list, she highlights such champions of purity, while also offering her own practical tips, modern-day research, and biblical principles to assist those who desire to wait.  

With all the recent buzz about “hookup culture” on college campuses, Hobbs believes the social climate is ripe with opportunities to have meaningful discourse and provide real guidance for this generation.  

At a time when children, tweens, teens, young adults, and older ones too, are bombarded with hyper-sexualized images on television, radio, movies, online, and in books, voices of reason and morality are desperately needed. With positive influences, there is hope. Sexual recklessness can "be reduced, though not eliminated" she says.

According to the New York Times, quoting the results of the Online College Life Survey, by their senior year in college, 4 in 10 students are either virgins or have had intercourse with only one person.

Also, approximately 3 in 10 of those surveyed said that they had never even hooked up in college.

Yet, 20 percent of women and 25 percent of men said they had, in fact, hooked up with 10 or more people—a disturbing statistic, even if only among a small minority.  

“This culture is sin-sick and addicted to seduction, but I am determined to fight for purity and help others see it is possible, and also, the best way to live,” says Hobbs, who remained a virgin until marriage.

“I refuse to stand by on the sidelines and watch our youth and adults be fed a bill of goods that glorifies sexual choices that contribute to the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, fatherlessness, and emotional distresses in our communities."

About The New A-list

Corporately-backed media has set up members of the Hollywood A-list as modern-day gods, molding everything from the values of society, to the sexual behaviors of an entire generation, and contributing to the erosion of the moral fiber of a nation. But a cultural shift is happening. A new army of A-listers, with the “A” representing abstinence, is arising and standing up for sexual purity, in a sex-crazed culture.

In The New A-List, author Dianna Hobbs highlights and mobilizes a new crop of leaders, who are determined to lift the taboo off abstinence and virginity. Through research, biblical and practical principles, and personal stories, readers will discover how to effectively counter immoral culture, become positive change agents, and personally adopt a successful lifestyle of purity.

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