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Posts Tagged ‘pain’
What’s Wrong with S&M?
May 9th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I’ve listened with inner surprise as friends explained their preferences in bed. You really do that? I want to say. We all have the capacity to surprise each other with what we do in private. I’m not a sex therapist. I’m not a counselor. But, as a philosopher I have some ideas. And with a [...]
Tags: abuse, feminin/masculin-ity, pain, sex
Posted in Fifty Shades of Gray, gender roles, love, pain, sex, vulnerability | Comments (65)
What can I do about Sex Slavery?
April 25th, 2012 by Jonalyn
We don’t like to think of ourselves as a country where sex slaves live behind walls in our town. Much less appealing is the idea that we’re accomplices in the sexual slavery in the United States. Since it’s National Child Abuse Prevention Month (between 500 million and 1.5 billion children are estimated to experience violence annually), since our local [...]
Tags: abuse, body, feminin/masculin-ity, feminism, pain, prejudice, sex, spiritual growth
Posted in family, God in a Brothel, love, pain, sex | Comments (18)
Why I Believe in Regrets
April 4th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I’ve met people who say they live with “no regrets.” Frankly, I just don’t get that. Doesn’t regret mean “wishing you had done something differently”? Don’t we all wish we’d done some things differently? Maybe Christians tend to be so delighted when God uses our mistakes we forget that our mistakes were, well, mis-steps. Regret [...]
Tags: family, pain, spiritual growth, vulnerability
Posted in aging, lament, pain, vulnerability | Comments (28)
Poor Start for Friends
February 29th, 2012 by Jonalyn
When I first moved to Virginia I knew I needed friends. It was easy to find girls like me. That’s a rock solid foundation for a friendship: similar interests. I found a friend, call her Debbie, who loved French class and good tea, talking theology and breaking out of the box in loving Jesus. She [...]
Tags: friendship, pain
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Eating an Orange: Women and Food
February 22nd, 2012 by Jonalyn
I sat with an unpeeled orange in my lap looking out over the snowy hill. I could see the spot where we buried Lady Lucia, our oldest, loveliest corgi’s body (The Day Lucy Fell Into Shadow), the earth a little more scarred from the effort of digging a grave in the winter (Digging) I suppose [...]
Tags: body, food, marriage, motherhood, pain, sex
Posted in beauty, food, lament, love | Comments (4)
To Cut or Not to Cut: Breast Reduction Surgery the Healthy Way
November 30th, 2011 by Jonalyn
I caught up with a co-founder of a non-profit in town to talk about her recent plastic surgery. Tara Chavarria and her husband run Christ for Life Sk8 Church a safe place for troubled teens to find community, hope and Jesus. Besides being a wife, mother and director of operations to Sk8 Church, on September 13 [...]
Tags: beauty, body, family, marriage, pain, sex
Posted in aging, beauty, Breast Reduction Surgery, pain | Comments (51)
Deaths of Playboys, Lives of Husbands
November 16th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Gunter Sachs with Brigitte Bardot – 1967 - Jean-Pierre Bonnotte/Gamma/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images I picked up the Wall Street Journal article “Death of the Playboy“ and learned that this author, Steve Garbarino was bemoaning their disappearance. The independently wealthy, smooth, womanizing playboys of yesteryear can be seen with topless models playing chess, in sports cars [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, pain, vulnerability
Posted in aging, beauty, gender roles | Comments (20)
