Author defines herself as 'Sexless in the City'

"My reckoning started not long before high school, with the recurring dream of facing my deathbed a virgin. That was the choice, anyway. Each time I had the dream, it was the night before the world was ending, and I was marooned on a spit of mud with a young man I somewhat liked. The death's eve dilemma was always whether to pass up this final chance to partake of life's best — enduring a last, supreme Missing Out for my obedience — or to cave in favor of dying with just a little taste of true ‘heaven.' ”

— from the prologue of

"Sexless in the City”

A young woman finds herself unemployed and begins writing soul-searching, funny e-mails to family and friends in between job-hunting expeditions in New York City.

That woman evolved into "Anna Broadway,” who has remained "Sexless in the City” due to her commitment to chastity in a post-sexual revolution society.

Broadway is the pseudonym that the 29-year-old author came up with when she created her Sexless in the City blog in 2004. Her new book, "Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity,” debuted in April to much fanfare by her Web log regulars.

We chatted recently as the hype for actress Sarah Jessica Parker's "Sex and the City” movie, which premiered Friday, appeared to gain more and more steam. The ideas expressed in Broadway's book have been dubbed "counter-cultural” to some of the concepts conveyed in Parker's successful cable TV franchise.

The book "Sexless in the City” is lighthearted enough that it should keep the reader laughing and wondering what Broadway is going to say next. The humor does not hinder or water down her thought-provoking message for singles attempting to maintain a chaste lifestyle in a society that says the very idea of chastity is crazy and out of touch with reality.

In our telephone interview, Broadway said she knows that not everyone will agree with her ideals. She said one book reviewer called her a "frigid evangelical.”

However, she said she thinks there are many others who might want to explore some of the ideas in the book.

She said the blog that preceded the book basically started out as her discussion of her love life and "romantic misadventures.”

"It was kind of my attempt to figure out some of the core issues I was struggling with in terms of reconciling my relationship with God and having a libido,” Broadway said.

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