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Recently, a number of events have disturbed me about the representation of women and theor sexuality both on this campus and in our society in general. [Two weekends ago] I saw Sexgod, a show directed by David Gammons '92, which portends to criticize our society's ideas about sexuality and religion. However, I think the production strengthens old images of male-female relations and sexuality. The female lead never speaks as she is given sexually from one man to another ("Go right ahead, she doesn't mind," one man says.) The man who receives her, the Priest in the play...
...outrageous doctrine." Yet one cannot help feeling that if all women dared as Mary Throgmorton dared, that if all had the courage she had, then the world need not worry as to the future of its children or its morals or its virtuous modesty. Mr. Thurston advocates no universal theor of free love--live, yes, and live fully, but to live one must be big enough, as was Mary Throgmorton, to count the cost and to find joy even in the sorrow and pain that go to make up the fullness of life. Only in risking much can man gain...
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