Just a little note on the Catholic thing; I remember reading someone saying that there was a similarity between nuns and prostitutes. They both live on the fringes of society. The only difference is that a nun withdraws her sexuality while a prostitute flaunts her sexuality.
There is also a whole slew of sex issues in Catholicism. I was brought up as part of a new generation, so for me it's not the severity it would have been, oh say maybe 100 years ago? We were taught that sex was a sacred thing and supposed to be only for having children and married couples.
But I've heard stories of Catholic couples who were chaste within marriage (okay so maybe some of these stories are from 500 years ago) because sex was equated with Original Sin.
Hmmm... I haven't revisited the 'sexual issues' stuff in Catholicism in years. I might have to do that then re-watch this video.
I do definitely remember one of my nuns mentioning that she had been brought up with sex as the Original Sin. In other words, the forbidden fruit of the tree was sex, and for having sex Adam and Eve were tossed out of the Garden of Eden.
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Date: 2010-06-09 10:23 pm (UTC)There is also a whole slew of sex issues in Catholicism. I was brought up as part of a new generation, so for me it's not the severity it would have been, oh say maybe 100 years ago? We were taught that sex was a sacred thing and supposed to be only for having children and married couples.
But I've heard stories of Catholic couples who were chaste within marriage (okay so maybe some of these stories are from 500 years ago) because sex was equated with Original Sin.
Hmmm... I haven't revisited the 'sexual issues' stuff in Catholicism in years. I might have to do that then re-watch this video.
I do definitely remember one of my nuns mentioning that she had been brought up with sex as the Original Sin. In other words, the forbidden fruit of the tree was sex, and for having sex Adam and Eve were tossed out of the Garden of Eden.