Category: Article
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Article Changing ideas of Female Sexuality
Here is an article offering a synopsis of Anna Clark’s book Female Sexuality published by Routledge (2005) https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203969120.ch3 Female sexuality is one of the most difficult subjects in women’s history, because female sexual desire has been both invisible and all too visible. Instances of transgressive female sexuality, such as the prostitute, the lesbian, or the…
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Starter Activity A letter from a woman subjected to sexual violence
This powerful letter was written by a woman subjected to an attempted rape. I found it a moving way to expose some of the issues surrounding sexual behaviour in an age of autonomy. https://www.indy100.com/article/woman-s-open-letter-to-man-who-tried-to-rape-her-viral-rape-culture-7482596 Dear individual, I write to you on this cold December evening, almost one year after you tried to rape me, because…
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Article Sex in the Torah
Jewish Attitudes Towards Sexuality source – kosher sex In Jewish law, sex is not considered shameful, sinful or obscene. Sex is not thought of as a necessary evil for the sole purpose of procreation. Although sexual desire comes from the yetzer ra (the evil impulse), it is no more evil than hunger or thirst, which also come from…
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Article: the issues and the challenge around homosexuality
Follow this link trhough for an in depth tour of all the moral and practical issues surrounding homosexuality and same sex relations. http://www.religioustolerance.org/homosexu.htm