What happens when a member of a church prohibiting everything from pornography and caffeine to sex before marriage admits she is involved in swinging?
In 2022, a group of wives and mothers were known as the Mormon Momtok, which rose to Tiktok famous with its “viral dance and lip synchronization videos”, which was rolled when a founding member was adopted on a live stream that she and her husband were involved in swinging with some of the stars in her social media clips, said Fox News.
Now a new TV series takes viewers behind the scenes when members of the Online Community are struggling to save their friendship and reputation.
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‘Soft swinging’
In 2022, a sex scandal shook the “foundation” of a “flourishing online -Subultural” of Mormon Moms, said NBC NewsWhen one of its main stars, Taylor Frankie Paul, announced that she and her husband were Get divorceAnd admitted that they had had an open relationship and that she had violated its conditions by “swinging” – which means that they changed partners within their group of friends.
With reference to what she got up to as “soft oscillation”, she told millions of followers that she and her then husband, Tate Paul, had agreed that they could be intimate with the other members of their swinger group on two conditions: as long as Because both were present and neither went “all the way”.
So, “as long as we were both there and we saw it and we knew it, it was ok,” she said, but “the other thing it goes on without each other”, then “they went out of the agreement. And I did it” .
She stacked the scandal on the scandal for the religious community and said that other Mormon pairs were also involved. She never offered the name of any other swingers, but when speculation ran riots it was assumed that countless mormons were involved. Several Momtok members took to social media to insist that they were absolutely not swingers, while others preferred to keep quiet.
Taylor Frankie Paul has since married Dakota Mortensen but it has not been happily enough for the couple. She was arrested during a change with Mortensen and was accused of abuse and violence in the home in the presence of a child. She told NBC News that at the time of the arrest “went 90 miles per hour” and “didn’t even think straight”.
The couple has a child together and since then her social media “has taken a tough turn against pregnancy and the post -partum content ‘, said The cut. If posts on social media are not enough for you, the new Hulu Docusa series, “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” follows eight of the influences as they “navigate the resulting chaos and turmoil,” says NBC News.
Married for soon?
The church of Jesus Christ by the Saints of the Last Day was founded in 19th century America and has estimated 13.5 million members worldwide, including up to 190,000 in the UK. Mormons believe that their church is a restoration of the church as imagined by Jesus and that the other Christian churches have been lost.
Mormonism is a sexual conservative belief system, where “chastity is a virtue, homosexuality is a sin” and the father is “chairman of his family”, Jessica Grose wrote for New York Times. So it is “remarkable” that the wives “have not left religion directly,” dedicated to the groce.
Many of them “love the foundation of our church: love, family, service,” Paul said in the series, but they think it is “impossible” to be a “modern woman” and “follow all rules”. One participant who comments on why many Mormons find it difficult to stick to their church’s conviction, a participant said that the problem is that Mormons “marry before their brains even develop”.
