Ep. 165: Bethany Beal Sex Influencer and the Ethics of the Snark

Leaving Eden Podcast

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True Crime, Cult, History, Survivor, Theology, Exfundie, Religion, Lgbtq, Christianity, Exvangelical, Documentary, Fundamentalism, Baptist, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Deconstruction, Inspirational Women, Duggars, Inspirational

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🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, we discuss the latest developments from Bethany Beal (of Girl Defined) as she positions herself as a Christian Sex Influencer. In addition to this, we deliberate over the ethics of selling "She Works Smart," an online course teaching Christian women how to make and sell online courses. In the third segment, we discuss the state of the snark, and the moral benefits and pitfalls of fundie snarking.

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion.
0:18.0	There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways
0:29.1	welcome back to the leaving eden podcast we are your hosts my name's gabriel hakoen
0:36.5	and i am cult survivor, cult expert, Sadie Carpenter.
0:42.0	In today's episode, we're talking about latest drama, as you've no doubt read in the title,
0:51.6	with Bethany Beale, with Girl Girl Defined and several of her other different
0:57.0	girl defined adjacent endeavors. There has been some developments. There have been some
1:03.3	developments. First and foremost, Bethany has pivoted sharply into a lot more explicit sex advice and rebranded herself as a Christian marriage sex expert.
1:20.8	She's also made some claims about her, the business side of her Instagram, she works smart. We're getting into all of that today.
1:31.3	Yeah. And there's been, I don't know if like, I guess, I guess you'll find out how we feel about
1:37.9	about this stuff when we get into it. Or at least I have some feelings about the discourse
1:43.6	surrounding this that are more related to that
1:46.9	than how I feel about any of the stuff that Bethany Beale is saying, but we're going to get
1:50.2	into that. Oh, before I do the whole spiel, I just want to make a note of something. We were
1:56.5	recently made aware that some of you have been getting political ads on your show.
2:03.1	This isn't something that we have control over.
2:05.7	We've tried turning the entire ad category of political ads off and just rejecting that fully.
2:13.9	But that doesn't work for every single ad, especially like locally targeted ones,
2:18.9	because the people who are buying those ads aren't necessarily. It's a whole complicated thing.
2:24.9	We just want you guys to know that if you hear a political ad on our show, that doesn't mean
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