Now that I am thinking about the connection between the sacred and profane I am reminded of a blog I discovered several weeks ago, entitled Nightmare Brunette (www.nightmarebrunette.tumblr.com), that is done by a female sex worker. She posts images, her own writing, and excerpts and quotes from others, and manages to do so in an astonishingly elegant and beautiful way. The content is frequently explicitly sexual (and occasionally pornographic or erotic) in nature, but the images always have an inherent beauty and the the writing is full of wonderful language and an insight/intelligence that many likely do not expect to see from a sex worker.
As we discussed in class, human sexuality was in ancient cultures (and still is in less developed cultures) much more closely linked to religion. Although the modern religions of most Americans does not involve sexuality, an approach like this blog takes to such normally taboo subjects allows us to recover a respect and reverence for it and its more spiritual aspects.
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