What seems rather ironic to me about someone calling people who disagree with a "no sex outside of marriage" doctrine "blind to the things of this world" is that typically those who
hold such a belief, through the intently sheltering and all too often shaming power of religion,
are the ones who are most blind about what they so disparaginly refer to as "the things of this world."
I emerged, over a period of many years, from a really strong background in Southern Baptist Christianity. While I still have friends within the church, many of whom are really intelligent and compassionate people (in spite of the plethora of negative stereotypes that would indicate such could not exist), I am very glad to have shed for me what was a suffocating layer of well meaning but harmful religiosity that kept me quite estranged from myself.
Since many in this country tend to come from really religious backgrounds, I suspect that that is one of the reasons so many of us who are a little older have trouble opening up to the fuller range
of our experience as women, both sexually and in so many other ways in our lives.
