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Posts Tagged ‘sex’
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
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Sex, Food and Fifty Shades of Gray
May 2nd, 2012 by Jonalyn
A man walks past your office, he’s eating a sandwich that smells like heaven. You notice it’s past lunch. You want your own. You don’t steal this man’s sandwich, instead you go out looking for your own. You eat. You are satisfied. A hot man walks past your office. You notice him and you notice [...]
Tags: abuse, food, reviews, sex
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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
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Red-Blooded Women*
March 21st, 2012 by Jonalyn
*simultaneously posted at Christianity Today’s blog for women, Her-meneutics. I watched Butterfield 8 with my husband last weekend. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her role as the sexually abused and sexually addicted call girl that falls in love. Her story is precisely what I’ve heard on the road from girls as young as 12. [...]
Tags: body, feminism, marriage, sex
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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
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When Men Fall: Vulnerability as a Prerequisite for Heroes
January 25th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I believe that our beliefs about our humanity, our femininity and masculinity directly affect what we will do, how we will grow, how we will fail and how we will recover. I’ve only 200 pages left of Daniel Walker’s “God in a Brothel: An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking and Rescue” (these are iPhone pages, [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, motherhood, reviews, sex, vulnerability
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Mercy for Christmas
December 14th, 2011 by Jonalyn
As a young girl I played “Mercy” with other friends. The wrist-bending game where the loser had to shout, “Mercy.” The word that meant punishment would end, the word that was embarrassing to yell. Dale and I watched an episode of Midsomer Murders last weekend. The kind vicar with the bitchy wife was the murderer. Several [...]
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