[ ... ] sex as irremediably wicked also doesn't accord with people's own experiences. A Christian morality that isn't grounded in a realistic account ... more
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Sex, historians and assumptions
@ 2008-02-23 – 22:33:05
For some reason, I’ve only just come across Jon Jarrett’s post on ‘Sex and medievalists’, although it’s nearly a year old. In this, amid a multitude … more -
Compulsory hexterosexuality?
@ 2007-11-02 – 22:24:25
[ ... ] the sex of the partner (although one that is likely to be accurate nine times out of ten). If I was wrong, I would expect to apologise and then ... more -
Can men control their lust?
@ 2006-09-17 – 23:08:07
[ ... ] sex in this way was his own experience. Jerome makes explicit that his lust tormented him even as an ascetic in the desert. The same is ... more -
Born of a virgin?
@ 2006-01-06 – 08:58:52
[ ... ] her sex: the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) has a lot on the development of the myths). Meanwhile Peter Brown, The Body and Society: ... more -
Christianity and sex (again!)
@ 2005-10-27 – 09:54:38
[ ... ] sex is only permissible when it is open to procreation, you should tell the sterile or the post-menopausal to be celibate. (Andrew Sullivan has ... more
