commentary Evie magazine, conservatism's answer to Cosmo, tried to make "trad" sexy. It failed Published May 8, 2026 6:45AM (EDT) Much of Evie Magazine's new "Sex" issue rests upon the assumption that sex is a service women perform for men out of duty — and to protect their status as wives (Kladyk/Getty Images) “Body count? One. Orgasms? Countless,” reads the caption over a photograph of a woman’s crotch, which is bare except for some strategically-placed flower petals. Another illustration shows a woman’s hand resting on a man’s naked back. The awkwardly-worded motto reads “Make him hard, not his life.” No, this isn’t your mother’s conservative Christianity. But in many ways, Evie Magazine is selling something worse. Every few years or so, the Christian right takes another pass at the impossible task of making fundamentalism look sexy or cool.…