Dancing On a Stamp by Garnet Schulhauser

Author:Garnet Schulhauser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirit Guides
Publisher: Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Sex Taboos

A few days after my first conversation with David, I saw him again at the gym. This time he invited me for coffee after the workout, and I could sense that he was troubled. He told me he had been thinking about the letter from the bishops warning married couples to be chaste in their sexual activities, and it brought back memories of all the sex taboos he had to live with in his early days.

“I grew up in an era when most adults thought sex was shameful and something that was never discussed at home or in polite company,” David began. “Sex was a deep, dark secret that children were not supposed to know about until they were teenagers and then only for the purpose of warning them about unplanned pregnancies. In religion classes the priests and nuns never talked openly about sex, and they would use silly euphemisms to tell us that all thoughts, words, or actions relating to sex were sinful and offensive to God. They warned us that our conduct with the opposite sex had to be ‘chaste,’ and we should never do anything to make us ‘impure’ in the eyes of God. These sessions were not really sex education, as we know it today, since they did not give us any information about the male and female reproductive organs or any details on sexual intercourse and conception. In a roundabout way, they did manage to convey their message that passionate kissing, petting, masturbation, sexual fantasies, and sexual intercourse, to name a few of the ‘dirty’ deeds on their list, were all grave sins and forbidden by God. Their list of sins was so long that it would have been nearly impossible for the average teenager to avoid sinning every day unless he was in a coma.”

“This belief that everything relating to sex was taboo (except intercourse between spouses to conceive babies) became ingrained in the teenagers in our parish," he continued. “I can remember a date I had once with a girl from our parish. As I drove her home that evening, I mentioned a rumor I had heard about two of our classmates being caught having sex in the back seat of a car. She immediately launched into a tirade against sex, proclaiming that it was dirty and disgusting and that anyone who had sexual intercourse was a pig. When I reminded her that her parents had engaged in sexual intercourse or she would not have been born, she paused for a moment and then declared that her parents were pigs, just like everyone else. I was surprised at her vehemence, and I concluded that the Church would be pleased to know that their guilt and fear tactics about sex were working so well. I had no more dates with this young lady, and I found out years later that she eventually got married and had three children. I have often wondered if this meant she had changed her views on sex

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