evesdream
perfect fifth
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2002
- Posts
- 5,716
*Warning* ~this thread begins with a post that features women's blood and menstruation~ Not for the faint of heart~
So I recently got back from Jamaica - My trip co-incided with a huge religious/political conference. There are a lot of sects in this religion all with very different ways of doing things. There was one sect with a commune in the Blue Mountains who require that women separate themselves from men for twenty-one days out of the month, one week before their cycles, one week after, and of course during - into the menstrual hut with you. It has a big red flag waving above it. When you enter the village, a woman at the gate asks you "When last?" to determine whether you are allowed in or not. (You'd better be good at math, or else not 'unclean' to be let in if you are an adult woman because as it happens, no one wants to see you if you are not at an impregnable stage)
I know that all of this can have other meanings for the women there but- but when I first heard about it I thought I would drive my tail into the ground, spin around, and die of outrage.
My loosely related questions are:
1 Do you think that social and religious practices that constrain sexuality can be defined in a BDSM context?
2 How do you react when something about your lifestyle or beliefs are viewed as outrageous? (just curious)
3 Is it possible to be in a Ds relationship without a self-knowledge that tells you you are being dominated? Without a self-conscious exchange of power?
So I recently got back from Jamaica - My trip co-incided with a huge religious/political conference. There are a lot of sects in this religion all with very different ways of doing things. There was one sect with a commune in the Blue Mountains who require that women separate themselves from men for twenty-one days out of the month, one week before their cycles, one week after, and of course during - into the menstrual hut with you. It has a big red flag waving above it. When you enter the village, a woman at the gate asks you "When last?" to determine whether you are allowed in or not. (You'd better be good at math, or else not 'unclean' to be let in if you are an adult woman because as it happens, no one wants to see you if you are not at an impregnable stage)
I know that all of this can have other meanings for the women there but- but when I first heard about it I thought I would drive my tail into the ground, spin around, and die of outrage.
My loosely related questions are:
1 Do you think that social and religious practices that constrain sexuality can be defined in a BDSM context?
2 How do you react when something about your lifestyle or beliefs are viewed as outrageous? (just curious)
3 Is it possible to be in a Ds relationship without a self-knowledge that tells you you are being dominated? Without a self-conscious exchange of power?