Hmmm...looks like not too many people showed up for her signing...and most of them were older people, not the twenty-something crowd she's wooing. They were probably there because they thought there would be free refreshments...

And when you're so apallingly hypocritical as to be shamelessly hawking your book on how unfrickingbelievably chaste you are now, yet at the same time going out of your way to post years-old videos of yourself dressed in a cheap, sleazy outfit, gyrating and making a spectacle of yourself on a stage, then you get what you deserve. Dawn Eden Goldstein isn't even remotely familiar with either modesty or chastity. If she was really Catholic, she would know that, had she genuinely confessed her sins and sincerely wanted forgiveness, she wouldn't be taking out the evidence of those sins and pimping them around town in order to solicit cheap, sleazy flattery from the sad, creepy bunch of (obviously) unhappily married men and dreary old hags who frequent her blog. I'm sorry, but she's as full of shit as it gets. But she's certifiably mentally ill, so I suppose she can't help it. She's turned herself into a grotesque at this point.

And you don't...?

Let me see...what else could I do with my time? Oh, I know! I could make a lot of cheesey home videos in which I discuss what I wear in every season, and then remind people how often I used to drop trou for anyone with a dick and a guitar, lest they forget that, even though I'm chaste now, I used to be able to get laid all the time!

Yes, dear. We're aware it's her middle name. I think you missed the point. No...wait...I know you missed the point.

And, yes, Ms. Goldstein is well within her rights to present herself as the most hypocritical, self-righteous loon as she wants. Just as other people have the right to call her on her hypocrisy and self-righteousness.

Perhaps if there were anything selfless or graceful about Ms. Goldstein, no one would care. Her narcissism and attention-whoring, however, have reached monumental proportions and merely make her look like a crazy, self-obsessed, pathetic, aging old groupie. Kind of like a less-fun-to-watch, uglier, dumpier Janice Dickinson.

And maybe the women who've managed to build rich, full lives that include marriage, family and personal interests or careers ought to show up and call her on her "buttoned-up, pasted-on-smile, perfect-jello-salad" comments. I really can't get over the fact that she's telling twenty-somethings that they ought not to dress like $2 crack whores and try to find fulfillment through cheap, meaningless hook-ups because doing so led to so much unhappiness and mental illness for her, but then goes on to make snide comments about the women who did exactly what she's preaching at them to do and claims that she's a better person for having sexed up the boys and gotten them to take her home for a soulless, heartless, meaningless physical encounter. I mean, which is it? She can't seem to make up her mind. And why would you feel superior to the women you're claiming had it right all along...? It's very strange. But then, money and attention are involved, so...I guess there aren't really any surprises there.

Isn't it, now...

What does she have against her last name? Why does she prefer a name that makes her sound like a pornstar or a stripper? Why was she so quick to discard a name that is so very much a part of her identity - her real identity - the one God intended for her, not one of the ones she's chosen?

I don't think sexual activity before marriage is a good idea. I'm not judgmental, however, of sexually active young women in general. There is a difference between being sexually active and being a pig, and Ms. Goldstein crossed that line years ago. Also, her sexual activity has always been about bartering her body for something else she wants. Now that her body isn't worth much to the sort of person who goes for that type of thing, she's bartering stories of her sexual past for attention. It's the same thing.

My husband is Jewish. No, I'm not an anti-semite, and I am disgusted by you for intimating such a thing. Ms. Goldstein is her name, as she is quick to point out in this interview - or was she merely pointing that out for self-serving purposes? It's her name, and one has to wonder why she chose to discard it, er, "professionally".

Nice set of assumptions for someone who considers him/herself "open-minded".

As for stereotyping and loathing, it's quite interesting that the aging Ms. Goldstein, who is purportedly out to woo young women twenty years her junior and impress upon them the importance of remaining chaste until marriage, at the same time sneers at the "Susie Cheesecakes" of this world, who, in her opinion, are good for little more than providing the perfect jello-mold recipe. Last time I heard language like that was when Hillary Clinton sneered at the Susie Cheesecake set for staying home and having teas and baking cookies.

Seems like she's the one doing the stereotyping here. For the record, I wouldn't know how to make a jello mold if my life depended on it. Some of us were actually finishing college and pursuing advanced degrees while Ms. Goldstein was dropping out and pursuing anyone who would give her two seconds of attention.

On the one hand, she promotes chastity and virginity until marriage, and, on the other, she obviously doesn't think very highly of those who actually did that. That's a pretty mixed message to be sending to young women. It's really hard to tell what she thinks makes women more worthless -- sleeping around like a cheap ho, or being a wife and mother.

Dorothy Day was familiar with the concept of humilty. Dawn Goldstein isn't even remotely acquainted with the notion.

Dorothy Day never teased the boys by promising she'd save her "blue material" for them at a later date...

Oh, my - did you see that latest post? On the one hand, she sneers at women who didn't sleaze around, and on the other, she's trying to sell a book preaching that that's the goal women should have! How she does pride herself on the fact that she's worn outfits that show off her butt and how she's spread her legs (she allows men to use that comment on her own blog, and to direct it towards specific women, so I'm sure she won't mind if I use it here - so much for 'chastity', eh?) for more guys than Jenna Jameson! It's as if, now that she's been around the block more times than a wheel on Lance Armstrong's bicycle and isn't exactly any decent guy's dream date any more, she's selling her born-again virginity instead of her used up old body. Wouldn't a truly chaste woman stop harping on her slutty past? If you're Catholic, too, you're not supposed to keep dredging up sins you received forgiveness for in the confessional. But it's her stock-in-trade, I suppose. Dawn Eden, fucked by (D-list) rockstars, will now show you how you too can be a virgin all over again! Good grief!

I did notice that she allows some very vulgar comments from men, but I guess she likes that sort of thing - if it's coming from men. She's very flirty and coy with them on the blog, but very dismissive and brusque with the women.

I haven't read her book, nor will I, but it seems odd that a book aimed at a female audience in their late twenties and thirties or so is being marketed like a Pam Anderson calendar. Seems like it's one more excuse to sex up the boys for some attention.

Yes, a quick perusal of her "blog" does reveal a rather desperate and grasping person, doesn't it? I wouldn't want her talking to my girls, that's for sure. Besides, why should my girls be exposed to her sordid, filthy past? Remember D.A.R.E. and how drug use actually went up after these programs hit the schools? One wonders if her revelling in her pornographic past will have the same result. Sort of, "See, girls, I screwed everything I bumped into when I was young, but I got forgiveness for it later and now I'm fine!". When, of course, she's so obviously not fine.

I'm not shocked by Ms. Goldstein's admission that she masterbates, although I do find this sort of public airing of one's dirty laundry quite ill-bred. These days an admission such as this is nothing.

As a Catholic, however, I do find public discussion of what goes on in the confessional to be extremely bad form and quite disrespectful to the priest who heard one's confession. While the person confessing isn't bound by the same rules as the priest one confesses to, the Church does advise its members to keep these matters private.