Keep Sweet and Have Sex
A 50-year-old man had ritual sex with a 12-year-old girl while adult women assisted.
And everyone was cool with it.
That’s just part of the bizarre story told in Netflix’s Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey and the exploits of its prophet, Warren Jeffs.
Keep Sweet’s Fascination
It’s the story of a renegade Mormon group that still practices polygamy. Vigorous polygamy, especially the type that lets old men bang young women and, occasionally, girls.
It’s the kind of thing that disgusts, but it also arouses, at least at some level. Sex sells for a reason. Keep Sweet did, its IMDB rating currently sitting at 7.3 with 11,000 reviews (Netflix’s Murder Mountain, which enjoyed the endorsement of Joe Rogan, sits at 6.8 with 3,200 reviews).
But I don’t think sex is the only reason Keep Sweet fascinates.
I think it fascinates because, although everyone understands the sex part, they can’t understand how an entire culture could allow such a thing to occur.
If It Doesn’t Fit, Put It on the Shelf
The docuseries tries to explain it, but every interview or explanation came down to the same thing: it’s how these people were raised. It was the only thing these people knew. They were…
