Kosher sex, my way.
Brilliant essay by Bex about the Bad Girl Jew. It is smart, satirical, and so dead on. I particularly enjoyed the part about the Yin-Yang of the B.G.J. I myself have been told that I am both irresistible and annoying. (It was a "thank you...I think..." moment for sure) .
I have always thought of Judaism as a sex positive religion. (At least compared to Catholicism and Islam). I have also always thought of myself as a sex positive person. My parents never gave me the impression that sex was bad or something to be ashamed of. They just warned me that sex is powerful and not to ever use it as a weapon (when this phrase was trotted out I would get some sort of mental image of some poor soul fainting away in front of me going "nooooo! The sex was just too good!") and would every once in a while remind me that "boys have feelings too". My mom is from the counterculture/hippie school of feminism, which seems to believe that women should never use their bodies or their sexuality to accomplish things. While sex sure doesn't pay my rent, I'm not going to ignore the fact that I seem to get decent service at Radio Shack and Best Buy b/c I'm a pretty gal in my 20's. My dad never really had much to say on the subject. Not in a repressed way. Just in a this-is-an-area-best-suited-for-your-mother/stepmother way.
So I blossomed into a rather open minded young lady who is quite comfortable discussing sex. With almost anyone. In college so many strangers opened up to me about their sex lives that friends would joke that I should become a sex therapist or researcher of some sort. I try not to be judgmental- just b/c I might not enjoy a certain act does not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong with it, as long as it is consentual. I don't quite understand what is such a turn on about feet, but if you want to give me endless foot massages I'm probably not going to object.
Do people fetishize Jews the way that they might Asians or African-Americans? Maybe.
I have a good friend (raised as a UU) whose brother seems to only date Jewish women, in particular women born in Israel. I suggested that they get him a t-shirt that says 'I brake for sabras'.
I have always thought of Judaism as a sex positive religion. (At least compared to Catholicism and Islam). I have also always thought of myself as a sex positive person. My parents never gave me the impression that sex was bad or something to be ashamed of. They just warned me that sex is powerful and not to ever use it as a weapon (when this phrase was trotted out I would get some sort of mental image of some poor soul fainting away in front of me going "nooooo! The sex was just too good!") and would every once in a while remind me that "boys have feelings too". My mom is from the counterculture/hippie school of feminism, which seems to believe that women should never use their bodies or their sexuality to accomplish things. While sex sure doesn't pay my rent, I'm not going to ignore the fact that I seem to get decent service at Radio Shack and Best Buy b/c I'm a pretty gal in my 20's. My dad never really had much to say on the subject. Not in a repressed way. Just in a this-is-an-area-best-suited-for-your-mother/stepmother way.
So I blossomed into a rather open minded young lady who is quite comfortable discussing sex. With almost anyone. In college so many strangers opened up to me about their sex lives that friends would joke that I should become a sex therapist or researcher of some sort. I try not to be judgmental- just b/c I might not enjoy a certain act does not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong with it, as long as it is consentual. I don't quite understand what is such a turn on about feet, but if you want to give me endless foot massages I'm probably not going to object.
Do people fetishize Jews the way that they might Asians or African-Americans? Maybe.
I have a good friend (raised as a UU) whose brother seems to only date Jewish women, in particular women born in Israel. I suggested that they get him a t-shirt that says 'I brake for sabras'.
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