What Does Doug Wilson Believe?

Women & Domesticity

A “Plain or Overweight” Girl Who Isn’t a Sexual Temptation Risks Becoming a Pimp

She herself is not a sexual temptation to boys—say, because she is plain or overweight—and so she lives out her emotional needs vicariously, trying to get other couples together.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2001, from Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, cited to the source.

Parents should also watch out for another kind of girl, one who might be called vicariously needy. She herself is not a sexual temptation to boys—say, because she is plain or overweight—and so she lives out her emotional needs vicariously, trying to get other couples together. In effect, she becomes a procuress, whether she knows what she is doing or not.

— Douglas Wilson, Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, Canon Press, 2001, Chapter 16: “Girls and Sex” (subsection “Living Snares”)