Discover the story of the song > The Loophole – Garfunkel and Oates

The protagonist of the song is a religious person who has always followed the rules of the Bible. She has been taught that premarital sex is wrong, but when she gets a boyfriend, she doesn't want to lose him to someone who will have sex with him. She discovers a loophole in the Bible that allows her to have anal sex, which she considers a sin but justifies as being okay because it can't result in procreation, and therefore God is okay with it. She embraces this loophole and asks her boyfriend to have anal sex with her in the name of Jesus. She also acknowledges that there are other parts of the Bible that she ignores or cherry-picks to fit her own beliefs.