I GOT what living your life for your pleasure really meant. I came alive! And almost immediately I got promoted, got a ,000 raise, started working out, lost weight and starting feeling sexy again. I fired my bereavement therapist and took pole dancing instead. I am living with the life force of a 5 or 6 year old, with boobs, sex drive and checking account!
”I spent most of my life as a Catholic, believing a certain part of sex is wrong and dirty if not in the confines of marriage. But did God make a mistake? I mean women have an organ on our bodies with 8,000 nerve endings with no other purpose but pleasure. Religion complicates God, but it is simple: what do you want, what makes you happy? Do that.”
Most would agree that women get the short end of the stick when it comes to most religions, sexual oppression and societal rights, but are women the keystone to enlightened sex? Mama Gena points out, “Women are the creatrixes of life, we give birth. Women love worship and are very generous with those who worship us.” Mama adds, “I am not interested in wiping out patriarchy, or installing matriarchy; I am interested in partnership and in having the voice and desires of woman, the cyclical nature of woman, to be honored culturally. My first approach is teaching a woman to honor herself because that instructs everyone around her to honor her, respect her and treasure her, and then everything works better – family, marriage, and career.”
But in response to any focus on pleasure or talk of worshipping the feminine, our culture erupts with mumbles of frivolity, excess and selfishness. To which Regena responds, “Selfish? I want women to be selfish! Women are by nature very generous, but you can’t give when