Explicit Sexuality is a Bad Thing?
My youngest brother posted a link to a Christian site and when I clicked on it I noticed a post on Beyonce so naturally I clicked it. There was a review of her new videos which expressed concern over her move to being explicitly sexual in them unlike her earlier work. I hadn't yet seen any of them in fact I had no idea about them so I was reading it without any point of reference. I read some of the comments which didn't all agree with the poster and I even linked to a blog that had a very different viewpoint. Then I watched one of the videos.
The one my brother linked me to was Drunk In Love and it was explicitly sexual in that she was obviously a woman comfortable with her body and her sexuality and her sex life with her husband. There was so much playfulness, sass, tenderness, raunch, and love evident in the interplay of them that watching it was a voyeuristic pleasure. Frankly it is the kind of video that makes you want to go give your man a surprise striptease.
Maybe because I'd been reading a lot of odd bible verse yesterday or reading up on the pope my first thought after watching it was that it put me to mind of Song of Solomon. Seems to me that it was no racier than that book of the bible of course so many people like to pretend that book doesn't exist or try to sell it as not at all sexual. Not sure how anyone reasonably comes to the conclusion that drinking wine out of your lover's navel isn't sexual and that's if you take the verse at face value... if you translate them from the slang of the time well the blatant sex act being described leaves no room to claim a metaphoric nature to the words.
For a religion that preaches abstinence but holding the lure of wondrous married sex out as a promise to those who go the course it is funny to me that there is judgement when someone is providing proof that married sex is awesome. Maybe instead the video should be incorporated into the pre martial counseling sessions to give the couples something to look forward to.
The one my brother linked me to was Drunk In Love and it was explicitly sexual in that she was obviously a woman comfortable with her body and her sexuality and her sex life with her husband. There was so much playfulness, sass, tenderness, raunch, and love evident in the interplay of them that watching it was a voyeuristic pleasure. Frankly it is the kind of video that makes you want to go give your man a surprise striptease.
Maybe because I'd been reading a lot of odd bible verse yesterday or reading up on the pope my first thought after watching it was that it put me to mind of Song of Solomon. Seems to me that it was no racier than that book of the bible of course so many people like to pretend that book doesn't exist or try to sell it as not at all sexual. Not sure how anyone reasonably comes to the conclusion that drinking wine out of your lover's navel isn't sexual and that's if you take the verse at face value... if you translate them from the slang of the time well the blatant sex act being described leaves no room to claim a metaphoric nature to the words.
For a religion that preaches abstinence but holding the lure of wondrous married sex out as a promise to those who go the course it is funny to me that there is judgement when someone is providing proof that married sex is awesome. Maybe instead the video should be incorporated into the pre martial counseling sessions to give the couples something to look forward to.
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