RE: Let's Talk About Sex

Thank you for such a wonderful reply. :)

I have a friend who is a professional sexologist, and I remember how awkward it was at first within our community when he talked openly about sex. Gradually I started to realize he was being normal, and my thinking was weird. At the same time, I remember the discussions about raising their children, and I had to wonder if the open talk about sex ("Mom and Dad have a sex date tonight, so you are going to stay with your cousins" type stuff) led to other problems and interests which made this more difficult... I don't really know, and it's further complicated by their religious worldview which adds more aspects to the discussion (definitely an abstinence stance there).

It's a complicated thing as a parent to figure out. I don't have answers, but I'm learning all I can from those who have done it well.

Thanks again for such an encouraging, heartfelt response. :)

First thing each day when I wake I read from a wisdom book. Currently it's Osho, The Tantra Experience. Oddly but often the section that I read has something to do with what happened in my life the day before...here is the passage I read this morning:

“The ascetic fights sex energy, and through that fighting he starts falling away from God, falling away from life, falling away from the vital source of life, and then there are perversions – bound to be. The more you fight with something, the more perverted you become, and then you start finding tricks, back doors to enter into it again.”

And then:

“But the irony is that the ascetic thinks that the Tantrika is obsessed, the ascetic thinks that the Tantrikas talk about sex. "Why do they talk about sex?” – but the real obsession is in the ascetic. He does not talk about it – or even if he talks about it he only talks to condemn it – but he continually thinks about it. His mind goes on reeling around and around it”