RE: Sunday Ten Cents Zen
Sexuality is not recognized as a spiritual act anywhere
I have plenty of sources for you! In varying degrees of mystic practice... My own work spins around it. I find it a sacred core.
Having said that, I was in a feminist mood today and felt that the brah-burning women of the seventies were not so wrong (normally I find them a bit hysterical). I came across a description of a book (in a bibliography compiled by Anne Carson, poet b. 1950), which did not strike me too exaggerated. It was one of those days when I realised (to my shock and horror, for I generally give the male the benefit of the doubt) that women are (still/again?) massively disrespected or repressed in so many ways (that are so normal we don't even notice). The sex-drive in men is fundamentally repulsive to me - it has leaped over to women now - when it is some kind of magnified animal base instinct that is aroused by the most superficial programming. Where it is not tamed, reigned and sanctified (by love) I shall preseve a bad after-taste for anyone who acts upon it.