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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My family was culturally not religiously Protestant; so I did not realize how much Jewish and Christian culture had shaped my own sexual attitudes until one of my closest friends declared herself lesbian, and I had to confront my own negative largely unconscious responses. I had thought I accepted gay sexuality quite freely, but encountered a visceral discomfort that made me reflect on all my responses to issues regarding sexuality. Having been an adolescent in the '60s, I regarded my own views as quite liberated; but actually living without assuming, say, male superiority to take a simple example of something none of us (none of us females, anyway!) would want to have, or admit to takes much more self-awareness than I had then. |
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