Question V
Has Catholicism (or any other religion) shaped your own sexual life? Does one dictate the other?
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Question V Has Catholicism (or any other religion) shaped your own sexual life? Does one dictate the other? |
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I grew up a working class Catholic with an intellectual and spiritual life from childhood. My mother was divorced and remarried so early on I separated church teachings which considered my mother an adulteress from reality-I knew my mother was not going to hell for having sex with her second husband. I never thought much about church teachings on sexuality. I entered the convent at the age of nineteen and left at the age of twenty and had little sexual experience no intercourse for sure prior to that. My sexual life has been shaped far more by my sexual desires, needs and partners than by religion. It has a spiritual dimension, but not a religious one. I really think God cares very little about the sexual rules, about who is sleeping with whom, other than to wish that we treat each other well and with respect. |
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