Embracing Eros
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:30pm By Margaret WadeThanksgiving coming up gives me the perfect opportunity to talk about one of the things that I like best about life and being in a body—the fact that the better things feel, the better they are for you. The heart is where Shiva dances the...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 12:50pm By Margaret WadeAmong those who shared comments with me about body fluids and spirituality since my last column, they spoke more of issues that are central to daily life than about sacred sex practices or rituals. Sharing body fluids can mean sharing disease or...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 11:26am By Margaret WadeIt might have taken humans a while to figure out the male's contribution to procreation, but the science of it took even longer. Yet even before the Western scientific world had determined sperm's part in the happy event, Eastern cultures had...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 9:48am By Margaret WadeNews flash: The world's newest celebrity is – yes! - a hermaphrodite! It was announced that world-class South African athlete Caster Semenya has ambiguous gender characteristics. OK, technically, she doesn't have genitalia for “both...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 11:09am By Margaret WadeSoft penises are delightful in many ways, and they have their uses even for those of us who nearly always experience them firsthand in their firmer state. But the fact of the matter is that, through all the many, many centuries of phallus worship,...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 3:28pm By Margaret WadeMary Magdalene, one of the biggest enigmas of Christianity, is celebrated with a feast day on July 22nd. In a religion with limited roles for women – virgin, whore, reformed whore (usually worded “penitent sinner”), wife, mother,...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 4:03pm By Margaret WadeKenneth Ray Stubbs is known for his books and DVDs on erotic massage and his book Women of the Light: The New Sacred Prostitute. This book introduced women who practiced various sex-related careers; he referred to them as “sacred prostitutes,...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 1:28pm By Margaret WadeThe first sex rituals were probably practiced by shamans as soon as humans figured out the connection between sex and babies. A shaman is a tribal diviner, medicine person, witch doctor or healer, an intermediary between humans and the spirit world...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 9:23am By Margaret WadeAn anchorite (or anchoress when a woman) in Catholic history was a person who was contained in a cell attached to a church. She spent her days in prayer. Townspeople brought her food, because once she was walled in, she never left her cell. She...
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Friday, May 8, 2009 - 10:49am By Margaret WadeHappy Mother's Day! May is the month of the mother —and the Mother Goddess. It is named for Maia, the Virgin Goddess of Spring, and celebrated with fertility rites and ceremonies honoring mothers. So, in honor of our mothers and the Great...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 10:20am By Margaret WadeSociologists tell us that young people today feel alienated from the society around them. They feel disconnected, like they don't belong. Occasionally these scholars conclude that our culture has lost the traditions that give meaning to our lives...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 11:06am By Margaret Wade"Sex is like Super Glue. It's a spiritual thing, an emotional thing," says Rev. Ed Young, pastor of a Christian mega-church with five locations across Texas and a television ministry. He is one of many who, during the last year, have had...
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Monday, March 16, 2009 - 12:11pm By Margaret WadeThe first 20th-century Western woman to describe herself as a Sacred Whore was very likely Cosi Fabian. She started her spiritual work at the age of 42. Her home was her temple, and her clients placed their offerings on the altar. She told each man...
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Monday, March 2, 2009 - 6:00pm By Margaret WadeThe connection between sexuality and spirituality is so strong and so ancient that the first “coin” ever minted granted access to sacred sex rites. The shekel in ancient Sumeria represented a bushel of wheat donated to the Temple of...
