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Who's Afraid of Women's Sexuality?

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I am a Black Woman, the Sacred Feminine. All that is glorious is born within me. It is my duty to teach. So before I die, I must leave behind my legacy of wisdom.

"Mediocrity always attacks excellence..."

"When you go beyond yourself....people feel uncomfortable in your presence."

and exactly what the point ?

I rate the post up until the last part.. because respect for a woman's sexuality or sexuality in general is independent of religion, it is more a sense of deeper human morality and philosophy which can be found in other faiths around the world.

In regards, to fear, that is an interesting concept.. maybe you have to fear something before you can respect it.. if I can understand that the woman can be just as bad as I can.. that is fearful.. cause I and I man not an angel

But coco you opened a can of worms, cause check it should we respect someone's sexuality regardless if it does not conform to the norms set by the dominant religion or culture?

Ananci should have a good post to contribute to this

Lol, wha yuh callin mih name for; yuh eh find I have enough enemies on Imix?

I almost didn't see this thread oui; Real Talk has become almost completely dormant of late.

There are a lot of comments I can make on certain points in the article (like women being called not to repress their sexual selves, oh really? Why yuh think they're encouraged to channel it elsewhere?). But for now I will acknowledge that fear of women's sexuality is the foundation of much of our so-called moral values today (dais de short answer, it is of course a little more complex in some cases). Never mind it's masked by such ideas that these values are about "respecting" a woman's body and the usual stuff, it's really based on a very ancient patricentric fear of death which was also closely linked to a need to protect male economic interests (adultery, for instance, comes from an economic term that describes .

But the overarching themes are a fear of death set in an ideology where control is a valuated idea in its own right. There were/are also deep insecurity issues revolving around the lack of understanding of women's intuitiveness, her menstrual cycle and her ability to find and maximise food and resources but all this still lead back to a fear of dying. It didn't matter what religion or spiritual system or even region (cause it was/is present in Africa too, including ancient Egypt) the patriarchal ethic was always pretty the same.

But the biggest irony is that now women themselves are the ones who are the staunchest defenders of masculinist values and ideas of sex/sexual codes. Don't believe me? Witness all the women who talk about men who "sleep around"; even right here in Imix and the recent discussions of monogamy and non-monagamy/open sexual relationships, who were the loudest protesters? If that's not what in hostage-rescue is called Stockholm Syndrome that's in the making for the last 4000 years, I doh know what is.

*Ananci braces for the storm now, god!*