Church’s ‘Hanky Panky Challenge’ significantly less sexy for unmarried couples

Timmy Gibson has issued a challenge to the married couples in his congregation: “engage in hanky panky every day for the month of February.”

The pastor of Mercy Church, which meets every Sunday at Indian Hills Middle School in Prairie Village, Kansas, is more frank in his frequent blogs addressing issues of sex: He advises married couples to buy a copy of the Kama Sutra (“I encourage the cartoon drawing ones,” he writes) and try different positions, and while he thinks porn is sinful, he says oral sex and sex toys are perfectly OK with the Big Guy Upstairs.

The sex-every-day challenge is reminiscent of two recently published books. 365 Nights, published in 2008, was written by Charla Muller, a self-proclaimed Christian woman who sought to improve her marriage by banging her husband every night for a year. The other, Just Do It, is a more secular read, penned by journalist Douglas Brown after his wife of 14 years, Annie, suggested that they have sex for 100 consecutive days. (With each other.)