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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