My name is Heather, and I am a recovering fundamentalist...
Well, sort of. I was sucked into fundamental christianity not by my parents, but by my best friends parents when I was 11. I was gently and lovingly browbeaten and tortured with guilt until I "accepted Jesus as my SAvior and believed in Him to wipe my sins away". Not forever, however, only until I did "it" again, which in my case, at the time, was MASTURBATE. Heineous sin that it was, I was riddled with guilt throughout my adolescense. This did not stop me from doing it, just drove me into the closet, sometimes literally ;-)
After many years of denying my sexual urges, trying to repress them, confessing them to the youth pastor (the filthy pervert) I finally gave in to sin. One year later at the age of 18, I was pregnant with my daughter, who is now 16.
My biggest beef with fundamental christianity is it's repression of women. Sexual repression is the surest way to keep women down. I finally threw in the towel when my daughter was 2 and the pastors wife gave us young moms a talk on how to not cheat our husbands of their sexual due by masturbating while they were at work. She also mentioned telling our young daughters not to touch themselves and to teach them it was a sin to do so. Well folks, that was about it for me! I can't say I'm unscathed, but I'm happy to say my daughters are!
Heather
Well, sort of. I was sucked into fundamental christianity not by my parents, but by my best friends parents when I was 11. I was gently and lovingly browbeaten and tortured with guilt until I "accepted Jesus as my SAvior and believed in Him to wipe my sins away". Not forever, however, only until I did "it" again, which in my case, at the time, was MASTURBATE. Heineous sin that it was, I was riddled with guilt throughout my adolescense. This did not stop me from doing it, just drove me into the closet, sometimes literally ;-)
After many years of denying my sexual urges, trying to repress them, confessing them to the youth pastor (the filthy pervert) I finally gave in to sin. One year later at the age of 18, I was pregnant with my daughter, who is now 16.
My biggest beef with fundamental christianity is it's repression of women. Sexual repression is the surest way to keep women down. I finally threw in the towel when my daughter was 2 and the pastors wife gave us young moms a talk on how to not cheat our husbands of their sexual due by masturbating while they were at work. She also mentioned telling our young daughters not to touch themselves and to teach them it was a sin to do so. Well folks, that was about it for me! I can't say I'm unscathed, but I'm happy to say my daughters are!
Heather
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Re: Cool! ahem....
Thu, January 1, 2004 - 9:39 PM>which in my case, at the time, was MASTURBATE. Heineous sin >that it was, I was riddled with guilt throughout my >adolescense. This did not stop me from doing it, just drove me >into the closet, sometimes literally ;-)
masturbation has always been an integral part of my existence, beg. at age 10 when i discovered how damn good my jeans felt against my nether-regions when lying on my carpeted floor, reading.
i went through 'masturbation guilt' for awhile, too, as a mid-teen. i didn't stop, though. i actually brought myself to orgasm w/out touching myself (as if this would make it "ok").
>My biggest beef with fundamental christianity is it's >repression of women. Sexual repression is the surest way to
i didn't find this at all in my experience. the beliefs seemed geared in such a way that they would keep the men sexually repressed just as much as women.
>keep women down. I finally threw in the towel when my daughter >was 2 and the pastors wife gave us young moms a talk on how to >not cheat our husbands of their sexual due by masturbating >while they were at work.
wow!
of course, any healthy guy loves it when his gal masturbates, esp. when he's present. ;)
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