Reply #19: Great post - That is exactly the point I have been trying to make

[smirkymonkey]

all along. I actually did my thesis in Grad School on this subject (roughly) - it was entitled "Christian Views of the Feminine and Female Body Image" and my thesis was that women have been taught to hate themselves, thier bodies and therefore do violence to themselves (eating disorders, plastic surgery, obsessing over beauty, etc.) or allow others to do violence to them (pornography, domestic violence, etc.)

The point is that our sexuality - both men and women - is so warped and twisted due to the centuries of indoctrination of Abrahamic traditions and it's attendant devaluation of women and the female body.