“Feeling no shame”: Sex and Menstruation

Posted on April 12, 2008. Filed under: women | Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Jana
Recently I was having a discussion with a friend about whether or not to have sex during menstruation, and this love scene came to mind from LDS author Judith Freeman’s A Desert of Pure Feeling. The woman in the encounter is LDS and was married at age 19. Her first child suffered complications at [...]

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Women as Servants

Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: Relationships | Tags: , , , , |

by Jessawhy

As a woman, particularly, as a wife and mother, I use my body in service to others. This idea came to me late one evening after making love to my husband, then later breastfeeding my infant. I looked down at my body and realized that between my three children and my husband, I [...]

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My Shoulders

Posted on October 29, 2006. Filed under: body image, health | Tags: , , , , , , |

My shoulders. They have been blessed to bear the burdens of my life. But those burdens have left my shoulders scarred and stiff. Inflexible. Too tender for touch.
My shoulders tell many stories, particularly the left shoulder where I have a thick scar. Thinner on the ends, pale pink [...]

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Magic’s in the Makeup

Posted on September 28, 2006. Filed under: body image | Tags: , , , |

The other day, when I walked into a friend’s apartment, she remarked on how nice I looked. To which I replied, “Well, I’m ready to do pretty again.”
I don’t think I ever knew makeup existed until I was about eleven years old. I just took it for granted that all the starlets on Loveboat and [...]

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