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Aneirin -> RE: Religious Imagery and Bdsm ? (7/19/2011 5:18:29 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
As it appears to interest me greatly and I suppose oddly because I am not religious nor do I subscribe to the religious origin of such imagery, I just wanted to open a discussion about the subject of religious imagery as a scene for BDSM activity.
Subjects such as crucifixion as venerated by the websites;
Crucified women
Crux Dreams
Oddly but perhaps not so in some respects, very little depicting male crucifixion, or is that considered gay, what's wrong with male beauty ?
Then there is Altar sex, imagery of such I have not yet found aside from the alter christian type, which was probably part of my draw towards paganism back when I was younger.
With me, I do understand where lot of the imagery that excites comes from, as I have an interest in the beauty of vulnerability and display, the sodding church helped with that, all those very realistic crucifixes and saintly images that one saw in Roman Catholic churches. I often wonder if the imagery was designed to stir sexual feelings in the viewers for the purposes of guilt purification, a case of provide the bait and catch the sinner.
But anyway, the subject of religious imagery, sexual fantasies based upon religion, what do you think, wholesome or blasphemous ?
To ME, neither. It's just a kink for some people. How each of those people came by their individual kinks is probably as individual as they are.
To determine whether or not they are wholesome or blasphemous would require buying into the dogma of most organized religiouns, and I don't.
That's it. I dont buy into the dogma but I know a lot of my kink interests come from the church and it's history, so I am wondering if it was my exposure to Roman Catholicism at an early age that set the questions up in my mind, questions that have become a kink in later life despite no longer being religious.
In fact early fantasies were inspired by religious imagery, the inquisition and of course the cruelties of Rome, which if you look BDSM has a lot of similarities in imagery with.
As I see it, the church, especially the Catholic Church is in a way steeped in sexuality and we all know what the catholic church has been accused of lately what with some very public cases involving some of the once thought of as bastions of moral society.
But then, if we as humans are a creation of the maker what does that say about those religious leaders of the past and present who engaged in the destruction of others, or is it what we are is what we are, just creatures out to learn, and learn, because my take on sexuality and all it's variations, is a learning exercise, we in the rawness of sexuality learn about ourselves and others.
But I can see how many would see sexualising religion as blasphemous, but isn't religion in reality; sexuality ?
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