Recommended Reading #47: Perspective and Judgment
"I Used to Be a Pro-Life Republican" by Andrea Grimes (Reproductive Rights, Sex and Religion, Sexuality Education, Self-Awareness, Sex and Culture) 3/10/11
This piece addresses so any aspects of interest to me—reproductive rights, projection, lack of self-awareness, sexuality (abstinence-only) education. I appreciate the author's sharing and the delineation of how her experience with religious perception and abstinence-only sex education resulted in projection and judgment (something that does not seem to me an uncommon phenomenon) and the transition she experienced that I interpret as being related to personal sexual opening. This kind of self-awareness is something that invariably seems to serve.
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"Who Cares About Your Open Relationship?" by Neamhspleachas (Relationship, Non-monogamy, Sex and Culture) 3/25/11
While I have of course witnessed the kind of judgments mentioned in this article before, I still find it mind-boggling that they seem so unquestioned in so many instances. I found incisive and entertaining the way this article broke some common perceptions about non-monogamy down and responded to them. What the author said makes a lot of sense to me; I feel truly baffled why it seems to so prevalently not to so many others, perhaps even seemingly the majority of collective (Western) society.
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"My Family Found out I Blog About Sex " by AV Flox (Sex and Culture, Privacy, Anonymity, Sexuality Education) 5/15/11
I read this and found it stunning. So much so that I don't even know what to say about it, just that I wanted to recommend it to be read far and wide. The mission statement the author composes, how disheartening I found her aunts' and uncle's responses, and the author's mother's email came together in this article for me to produce an incredible composite of strength, beauty, and love.
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