misguided

"in losing our innocence, we can gain wisdom, and in the process of gaining wisdom, we gain a new innocence. The instinctual organism does not sit in judgment; it only does what it does. All you have to do is get out of the way." the organism doesn't know guilt and shame and all those negative complexities imposed upon us by religion and society. how tied the "virginity movement" is to anti-feminism and perpetuating gender roles and inequality. how the fear and shame and guilt of my religious upbringing made me less, not more ready to defend and protect myself. teaching of passive submission and boundless self-giving, non-violence and non-hatred....