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Question I Why has Christianity rejected many expressions of sexuality as antithetical to spirituality while various Eastern traditions Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism have been more accepting of sexuality, have even embraced sex as a vehicle for spiritual transcendence? What do you think about the connection, if any, between sexuality and spirituality? In the Christian view, is Shakespeare's mortal coil, Milton's perfidious bark, just a weight holding us down, preventing us from achieving greater divinity, or is the body, as Blake explains, a portion of the soul discerned by the five senses?

I will always link Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae with her observation that whatever the anti-sexual, anti-nature threads we condemn in Western analytical, competitive, materialistic, patriarchal cultures, these same cultures produced the very science, technology, affluence, feminism and social freedom that allows millions of Euro-American women more freedom to do whatever they want in science and the arts than any other society, past or present.      Now she reminds us that neurosis, sexual unorthodoxy and creativity often go hand in hand in many of our greatest artists from Mozart and Michelangelo to Picasso and Dali. Sexual repression in the West has not been without some significant positive outcome. Francoeur responds to Moore and Kissling

Introduction Question I Camille Paglia Thomas Moore Elaine Pagels Robert Francoeur Frances Kissling Question II Camille Paglia Thomas Moore Elaine Pagels Robert Francoeur Frances Kissling Question III Camille Paglia Thomas Moore Elaine Pagels Robert Francoeur Frances Kissling Question IV Camille Paglia Thomas Moore Elaine Pagels Robert Francoeur Frances Kissling Question V Camille Paglia Thomas Moore Elaine Pagels Robert Francoeur Frances Kissling ©1999 Robert Francoeur and hooksexup.com