Thursday, June 11, 2009

Anal Sex!

Catch your attention? Ours too, though when we first saw it it Slate, it was in this context: "Conservative Catholic Theologians Can't Stop Arguing About Anal Sex" That'll grab your attention too.

A paragraph from the item:
West's approach to human sexuality is, well, unique. In seminars, he has blessed women's ovaries and recommends that couples pray over each other's genitalia as a means of overcoming shame. He has objected to flat-chested portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary: In a 2002 letter to the editor in Crisis magazine, he encouraged Catholics to "rediscover Mary's … abundant breasts."* He encouraged seminarians to look at their naked bodies in the mirror every day to overcome their sense of shame (though if my memories of seminary are accurate, such an exercise might have the reverse effect). And in the first edition of his book, Good News About Sex and Marriage, he opined that there was nothing "inherently" wrong with anal sex so long as it was foreplay leading to traditional intercourse.
What the hell happened to "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law?" Or "If it feels good, do it?" When & by whom was humanoid sexuality handed to wretched old "celibate" closet cases in embroidered dresses? And why was it given to them? Sheep.

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