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Americans: Sex-Addicted Prudes
OK. So plunging v-necks with popping cleavage is tasteful, but breastfeeding in public is disgusting. And pornography is acceptable, but a woman giving birth in the nude is disturbing. Clinton told the whole nation that oral sex isn't really sex, but oral/manual nipple stimulation during labor is inappropriate. Hmmm...can you say contradiction?!?!
Can you tell I have been rather frustrated by our culture the last few days? Last Friday evening, the Columbia Community Birth Center hosted a FABULOUS cake competition and champagne gala, and Uprise Bakery submitted the prize-winning cake: chocolate cake in the shape of a life-size water-birthing woman!!! It was incredible -- every pregnancy and birth junkie there LOVED it! See below :
Amazing! Exquisite! Beautiful! Unfortunately, not everyone thought so. I understand that it was an unusual cake, I really do. But I had blissfully forgotten that our society is so painfully Puritan. They thought it was a shocking breach of a cultural taboo. A few were even appalled by the cake and refused to eat it. I know it's just a cake, but it really breaks my heart. I suppose I now take it for granted that the female body, and especially the pregnant female body, is so extraordinary, powerful, and full of beauty. I forget that not everyone understands this. I forget that our culture thinks female bodies are sexy and desirable (but not beautiful and normal), and sexy only behind closed doors, darkened magazine covers, and inside the male imagination. What a cruel dash of reality.
There was a lot of cake left over, so I went home with the right breast, which was AWESOME. But my roommates and I couldn't eat it all, so I took it to a football watch party the following evening -- the people at the party were by and large folks I didn't know well or at all, by the way. I knew it would make things wonderfully awkward and I wasn't disappointed -- a few were repulsed, a few were intrigued, and most just didn't know what to do! One guy actually had the nerve to tell me it was disgusting -- I really wish I would have snapped something back about the stack of Playboys he undoubtably has in his bedroom!
So there you have it. Americans are sex addicts and incredibly prudish at the same time.
Take a look at that awesome cake. Look at her power, look at her grace, look at the way she gives life. It's not that she is exposed, it's that she has nothing to hide. It's not that she is naked, it's that she's worked up a sweat and has the freedom to be comfortable. It's not that she's scandalous, it's that she's natural. Look closely. Can't you see how beautiful she is?
Can you tell I have been rather frustrated by our culture the last few days? Last Friday evening, the Columbia Community Birth Center hosted a FABULOUS cake competition and champagne gala, and Uprise Bakery submitted the prize-winning cake: chocolate cake in the shape of a life-size water-birthing woman!!! It was incredible -- every pregnancy and birth junkie there LOVED it! See below :
Amazing! Exquisite! Beautiful! Unfortunately, not everyone thought so. I understand that it was an unusual cake, I really do. But I had blissfully forgotten that our society is so painfully Puritan. They thought it was a shocking breach of a cultural taboo. A few were even appalled by the cake and refused to eat it. I know it's just a cake, but it really breaks my heart. I suppose I now take it for granted that the female body, and especially the pregnant female body, is so extraordinary, powerful, and full of beauty. I forget that not everyone understands this. I forget that our culture thinks female bodies are sexy and desirable (but not beautiful and normal), and sexy only behind closed doors, darkened magazine covers, and inside the male imagination. What a cruel dash of reality.
There was a lot of cake left over, so I went home with the right breast, which was AWESOME. But my roommates and I couldn't eat it all, so I took it to a football watch party the following evening -- the people at the party were by and large folks I didn't know well or at all, by the way. I knew it would make things wonderfully awkward and I wasn't disappointed -- a few were repulsed, a few were intrigued, and most just didn't know what to do! One guy actually had the nerve to tell me it was disgusting -- I really wish I would have snapped something back about the stack of Playboys he undoubtably has in his bedroom!
So there you have it. Americans are sex addicts and incredibly prudish at the same time.
Take a look at that awesome cake. Look at her power, look at her grace, look at the way she gives life. It's not that she is exposed, it's that she has nothing to hide. It's not that she is naked, it's that she's worked up a sweat and has the freedom to be comfortable. It's not that she's scandalous, it's that she's natural. Look closely. Can't you see how beautiful she is?