Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

The president of Providence College has banned a campus performance of The Vagina Monologues saying the work contradicts church teaching. Another prominent Catholic school, the University of Notre Dame, also has placed restrictions on the plays performance.

The new school president at Providence, the Rev. Brian Shanley, wrote in a Jan. 18 letter to students that he particularly objected to one tale that uses religious language to describe a sexual encounter between a woman and a teenage girl. While the teen narrator describes the episode as “a kind of heaven,” Shanley said it’s “abusive, exploitative and morally wrong.” The church teaches that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered.”

The V. monologues uses have done as much for the awareness of violence against women as abortion activist have done to protect human rights. The following are some highlights of the V. monologues highlighted by the Cardinal Newman Society

Hair: A woman discusses pubic hair, how she shaved it to please her husband and convince him to stop cheating on her. It didn’t work. (poor woman, bad man!!!)

If your v***** could talk, what would it say, in two words?: Litany of women’s responses to another ridiculous question, most of them vulgar responses related to sexual activity.

The Flood: The monologue is preceded by Ensler’s description of her interview with a 72-year-old woman who had never touched herself down there intentionally.The elderly woman’s therapist convinced her to masturbate. In the monologue, the woman explains how sexual excitement causes an unfortunate reaction in her v*****, which she calls flooding.

I Was 12. My Mother Slapped Me.: A woman describes her mother’s discomfort and abusive reaction to her menstruation.

The V***** Workshop: A woman describes her experience at a group workshop where she and other women are taught to draw pictures of their v******, look at them using hand mirrors, and masturbate.

My Angry V*****: A woman rants against those who oppose masturbation and suppress graphic talk of v****** in public. This monologue is extremely vulgar and offensive.

The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could: A woman describes several memories of her life, including painful accidents and a childhood rape that cause her to view her v***** as a very bad place. At age 13 the age has more recently been changed to 16 in the script she is seduced by a 24-year-old lesbian woman, who served the girl vodka, dressed her in a satin teddy, had oral sex with her, and taught her to masturbate. The monologue’s conclusion presents the lesbian seduction of the young girl by an adult, which in many states would be prosecutable as statutory rape, as a positive outcome: I realized later she [the lesbian woman] was my surprising, unexpected, politically incorrect salvation. She transformed my sorry-ass coochi snorcher [v*****] and raised it up into a kind of heaven.

What Does a V***** Smell Like?: Litany of women’s responses to this interview question. No comment needed.

I Asked a Six-Year-Old Girl: A 6-year-old girl’s responses to the same ridiculous questions: what would your v***** wear, what would it say, what does it smell like, etc.

The Woman Who Loved to Make V****** Happy: A bisexual woman describes how she likes to excite women sexually, using a variety of props. She then describes a variety of moans she has experienced. A second interview, in which the woman describes lesbian sex, is pornographic and highly explicit.

Sinfulness separates us from one another and promotes the ideology of seeking to dominate over the other. The above examples of sexual gratification separates the beautiful gift of sexuality from its purpose, which includes the expression of a gift of oneself to another in a permanent union of life and love. The V. monologues is a violent presentation of the gift of human sexuality. It divorces human sexuality from the woman herself, from her body and her spirit and from the bearing of children. Sadly, many of the women who participate in these monologues are in pain. Victims of abuse of the body and soul. As it is with so many women who identify themselves as lesbians, many (through no fault of themselves) have no concept of respect, dignity and love, because they have never received it. BRAVO for the trend on our Catholic Universities.

“Everyone should be treated with dignity. This is part of our following of the Gospel. A woman’s dignity is closely connected with the love which she receives by the very reason of her femininity; it is likewise connected with the love which she gives in return.” On the Dignity of Women, Pope John Paul II