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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?
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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
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