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Sexuality and Spirituality are about empowerment and liberation of becoming human. ~Magi Aata
Roman Catholic Women share insights suggestive they just might be more prepared for the sexual context of adult marriage than women not Roman Catholic. This perception results from serving protestant churches, non - profits, and charities for more than 30 years.
During the period, I listened to thousands of women tell me the stories of their sexual development and experiences. Seven in 10 have reported to me that family members sexually used them while children. The effects of these experiences have left many suffering post-traumatic stress disorder for decades after events occurred.
These women as adults were married two to three times by mid-thirties. Most have children. Almost all are yet in pain. When telling me their stories, most revealed that even beyond the trauma of their experiences, most were not believed when they told what had happened to them and they had not had any investment of education or orientation to the sexual context of adult marriage. Their sexual experience had developed with little forethought of preparation for rite of passage life transition. Couple this with the desire for love and many have found themselves in troubled relationship after troubled relationship.
Since retirement I have had occasion to meet and hear the stories of many Roman Catholic Women. Listening and limited to their stories, I have been told, a contrasting view has been formed. Roman Catholic Women's stories lend to the consideration that something as a result of being Roman Catholic provides significant foundation and preparedness for the sexual context of adult marriage.
Does their preparation result from the Church's influence? Does the pre - eminence of a matriarchal mother image factor into this development? Is this affect different cross culturally among the largest spiritual group on Planet Earth?
When I listen to Roman Catholic Women talk about the intimate nature of their relationships with their husbands, they common use the language of 'giving themselves to their husbands' as an act of worship to God. That perception could certainly make a difference in Protestant context for not once have I heard a Protestant woman make the same report.
Listen to a few of the voices giving rise the observation of Roman Catholic Women. One married Catholic Woman in her 20's living in the Midwest shared the following with me that impressed my thoughts. She said, " As part of our Catholic beliefs, my husband and I don't believe in committing sexual acts that don't ultimately lead to intercourse - and, ideally, mutual orgasm." She spoke of giving herself to her husband.
In my family, we represent the cross cultural human population around the globe. Our family has a Roman Catholic component. Our family originating in Sicily is Roman Catholic. When opportunity presented itself, I asked the Sicilian Matriarch from our extended family. She is in the seventh decade of her life. I asked her of this notion of Roman Catholic Women's idea of giving themselves to their husbands as an act of worship to God. She affirmed it was so but went on to share that the training is the same for men.
One Catholic woman in her late 30's living in Arizona said to me of Catholic Women, "We are a pretty earthy bunch. In this context, we enjoy being who we are. We are happy to give ourselves to the worshipful moment where Heaven and Earth meet." Her connotation suggests a more prepared readiness to engage the sexual communion among adult married Roman Catholic men and women.
Is it that the Catholic Church does a better job of preparing women for marriage and the sexual context of marriage? Is the sexual context of marriage more intensely spiritual than that of women of other spiritual traditions? The stories of Roman Catholic Women need not be misconstrued in any monolithic context as well as for some their developmental experience ins not radically different than the stories protestant women have shared.
Since mating is the instinctive behavior of the human biological imperative, a developed civilization with enhanced perceptions of sexual spirituality and religious practice seems to make a difference in the adult sexual lives of adult married Roman Catholic women. This perception could well form the launching system to a new level of dialogue among women for developed understanding of the experience all share in one context or another. Shared insights of Roman Catholic Women suggest they just might be more prepared for the sexual context of adult marriage than women not Roman Catholic.
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