From Soaking To Dirty Soda: TikTok Is Fascinated By These Mormon Practices
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Interest in Mormons and their religion has reached its peak with the scandalous The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives hitting our small screens. There’s also been plenty of Mormon drama on TikTok, from trad wives to the #MomTok scandal that inspired the series spilling over into mainstream media.
While there’s a lot to say about the (possibly feminist) ways Mormon women are rebelling against the faith in the Disney+ series, it’s left many of us curious about some of the ambiguous rules of Mormonism referred to throughout the series and in the comments sections of TikTok trad wife accounts.
The “rules” of Mormonism can be hard to unpick because, as in every faith, adherence ranges from absolute fundamentalism to the less engaged soft swingers we see in The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
Some of the confusion around Mormon rules stems from the fact that, like many religious texts, The Book of Mormon was published in 1830. This 1830 manuscript didn’t cover many modern phenomena, from “soft swinging” to soda. This means that amidst the rules, Mormons engage in some unusual workarounds that TikTok can’t get enough of and still hold some practices, like undergarments, dear.
With interest in everything Mormon on the rise, we unpacked some of the terms we’ve encountered so far.
Content retrieved from: https://www.marieclaire.com.au/life/mormon-rules-and-terminology/.
