Sexuality & Religion, “Sex at Dawn”

Morehouse Med School Chair created on Sexuality and Religion. How “Sex at Dawn” is blowing my mind in about 64 different ways – Blog: In Bed with Married Women, The blog that hops into your bed, staring rudely and taking notes.

By The Associated Press

The Morehouse School of Medicine is creating what is being called the first endowed chair on sexuality and religion at a U.S. medical school.

The Atlanta medical school on Thursday announced it raised $2 million for the endowed chair, and it will begin a one-year national search to hire someone to fill it.

The chairperson will develop ways to train physicians and theologians on a wide range of sexual health issues that include contraception, rape prevention, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

The chair will report to Dr. David Satcher, a former U.S. Surgeon General who issued a controversial report on sexual health in 2001. Satcher is now a Morehouse administrator.

A spokeswoman for the Association of American Medical Colleges said she was not aware of a similar endowed chair anywhere else. Read more: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/05/31/news/doc4fc80c3424972820917449.txt

Blog by Jill Hamilton

I’m reading Sex at Dawn and, as I mentioned one sentence ago, it is completelyblowing my mind. Would you like to read it with me? I’m feeling an overwhelming urge to discuss it with smart people! (That would be you.)

If you haven’t already read it, here’s the basic premise: the assumption that humans came from sexually monogamous ancestors and are thus naturally monogamous creatures is, perhaps, completely wrong.
The book is filled with all kinds of crazy mind-fuckery like:
–maybe humans are inherently  non-monogamous creatures, and that by insisting that we are monogamous–we are monogamous, damn it, weare!–we are denying our true sexual natures.
–maybe sexual jealousy isn’t as normal as we think, but is instead a social construct.
–maybe the narrative of women bartering sex for security (i.e. woman marrying a high-status, responsible guy who will help her raise the young) is wrong and women actually have sex because, um, they like sex.
–maybe our ancestors weren’t hair-grabbin’, woman-draggin’ brutes, but rather peaceful foragers who shared food, child-rearing and sex. Read More: http://inbedwithmarriedwomen.blogspot.ca/2012/02/how-sex-at-dawn-is-blowing-my-mind-in.html

 

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