Ashcroft's prayer circle

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

I'm almost tempted to say they're different words for the same thing, except that there are other examples besides Christianity. The point is that a sado-masochism organized social-psychologically
along lines of gender is specific to certain specific types of gender rôle definitions. Among them are definitions of fatherhood and motherhood that reached an extreme in the nineteenth-centuryt
European and North American bourgeoisies. When characterological S/M (not, of course, S/M as a perversion -- whips, leather, etc.) came to need a name, the novelists, de Sade and von Sacher-Masoch,
furnished the nomenclatural inspiration.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Charles Brown wrote:


> >>> crdbronx at erols.com 05/20/01 01:17PM >>>
> Christianity has not always been authoritarian. But it has always been a
> manifestation of sado-masochistic character structure.
>
> (((((((
>
> CB: I might have asked this already, but what of the fact that Christianity started long before Sade and Masoch ( sp. ?) ? Wouldn't it be that Sado-masohistism is a manifestation of Christianity ?