Those in the first camp, who believe the body must be controlled, overruled, and dominated, attribute much of the body’s baseness to its “feminine” qualities. After all, physical matter (or mater, i.e., mother) represents the potential of life, the magic and sometimes chaos of creativity. Rather than recognizing that what runs through our bodies is sacred, holy, and even divine, people in this first camp are in battle with themselves, looking outside for approbation and approval. They desire to dominate nature, to control it, to sanitize and separate the human experience from that of other
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