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You ever notice how much torture porn is produced from the process of childbirth?

Men have a horror of the bodily processes of women. Christians could only deal with Mary by coming up with the hilarity of the Immaculate Conception (which was backstoried) and her pregnancy by vapor.

Every cult that's come out of the Middle East has as its central core an obsession with blood and purity and She Who Is Menstruating is rendered temporarily polluted and must be excluded from the normal rites.

Pedophiles like their females un-menstruating and the very best females for the ancient Greeks were beautiful little boys.

I suspect a lot of modern marital dysfunction comes at least in part from having the husband in the labor and delivery rooms where he can't escape the raw messiness of producing children. Some things you just can't unsee later.

Puberty is the ugly stage. It's always been hard to get through and as I've noted to you many times previously, those elaborate, sometimes painful, occasionally fatal rituals that many societies have devised for it served to channel the raging hormones towards the approved path for becoming an adult and a fully validated member of the tribe.

Happy upcoming The Holy Infant Not Produced by Sex Day!

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This all needs to be discussed. We often either demonize sexual women or elevate them to a state of Goddess and pressure them to be more and more sexualized (which pressures all women to rise to the challenge). In reality, most women are a little of both - somewhat maternal and somewhat sexual, leaning into one or the other more at a particular time and place. Yet, as we can't seem to do anything without going to extremes, the idea of a woman being somewhat sexual or somewhat maternal gets no traction at all.

Personally, I think the idea that Mary had a be a virgin is absurd and insulting. And most people don't get the lesson learned from Jesus' "friendship" with Mary Magdalene - that we should not judge a woman based upon her sexual experience or behavior.

The real question is: will we ever learn?

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