Faith & Spirit Quote by Shannen Doherty

A joke like this works because it pretends to be a theological argument while obviously chasing something else: permission. Shannen Doherty takes a familiar moral script (religion as the stern hall monitor of sex) and flips it with a consumerist punchline. “If God wanted...” is the setup you’d expect from purity culture or prudish scolding; “sexy lingerie” yanks the whole premise into the lingerie aisle, where desire is packaged, priced, and marketed as empowerment.

The intent is playful provocation, but the subtext is sharper: the way we outsource responsibility for our appetites. By invoking God, the speaker mocks the habit of laundering libido through higher authority, as if the divine designed lace to settle human ambiguity about wanting and being wanted. It’s not really a defense of religion or a takedown of it; it’s a side-eye at the loophole-making mind that tries to reconcile pleasure with guilt using courtroom logic.

Coming from an actress who built a public persona in the ’90s and 2000s amid tabloid scrutiny and culture-war noise about “good girls” and “bad girls,” the line also reads as a small act of brand self-authorship. It shrugs at respectability politics and insists that sexuality doesn’t have to arrive with an apology. The laugh lands because it’s audacious and a little absurd, spotlighting how easily “morality” bends when desire shows up in satin.