Organized religion gets a bit of a tough rap when it comes to sex positivity. I'm guilty of perpetuating this idea in class. Every once in a while, however, something comes along that flies in the face of religious sexual conservatism. Take, for example, Christian Nymphos, a website dedicated to sexual fulfilment within the confines of rules laid out in the bible. One post is related specifically to a behaviour described in class this week - pegging. The authour addresses pegging from a biblical point of view, and then takes down some common arguments:
I’ve heard the following arguments:
“Well it’s just not natural!” Well that toupee that your uncle wears isn’t natural either. And neither is your sister’s blonde hair that she got out of a box.
“Women weren’t meant to function like that!” Well, the mouth is meant to function as something we use to eat with. It chews our food up and aids in the digestion process. Yet many of us use that same mouth for oral sex, even though one could argue that the mouth wasn’t “meant” to function as a receptacle for a penis.
“That is like a complete role reversal and I can’t imagine God being pleased with that!” I would caution any of you who assume to know what God is thinking. Just because you aren’t comfortable with a particular act, does not mean that it’s inherently wrong or sinful.
“Any man who would want that would have to have some hidden homosexual tendencies!”This is just pure rubbish, and again just one big false assumption. I happen to love my own smell and taste, so much so that I would probably give myself oral sex if I were limber enough to do so. However, the thoughts of being with another woman and tasting her are repulsive and nauseating to me. Just because I am comfortable with my own body and within my own sexuality doesn’t mean that I have lesbian tendencies.
To read to the rest of the article, click here. The comments at the end are particularly interesting, and blow away some of the common stereotypes about Christians and sex.