Submission, Anyone? (was Re: another century of men on top)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Jun 11 17:27:41 PDT 1998


James Cullen wrote:
>Leave it to the Southern Babtists to make the Catholics look liberal.

While the Southern Baptists say that a wife should 'submit herself graciously' to her husband's 'leadership,' 'the Roman Catholic bishops in the United States...said marital roles, although different, should be characterized by "mutual submission" of a husband and wife to each other' (_NYT_ 10 June 1998: A1).

This emphasis on 'submission' in the language of Christians is rather intriguing, sexually speaking. Religious rapture must come from the ritualized psychodrama of domination and submission. So, Les, there is kinky sex here after all, if we read it closely enough.

Yoshie



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