Hugo Schwyzer

Three blogs that you should be reading:

Figleaf’s Real Adult Sex (mostly but not entirely worksafe)
Noli Irritare Leones
Flesh and Spirit: Embracing an Embodied Spirituality

It’s the last of these that I’ve discovered most recently, thanks to Jendi Reiter. And it’s through Jendi that I found this post from Teresa at Flesh and Spirit. It’s part of a long discussion about blogger Eve Tushnet (a bisexual Catholic who practices chastity) and her understanding of celibacy and faith, but the Flesh and Spirit piece includes some truly terrific analysis of Christian sexual ethics and the way in which we either center or ignore experience and desire in the development of those ethics. Here’s Tushnet’s piece.

As someone who came to Christ as a young adult, washed first in the blood of the Lamb when I was nineteen or so, Teresa’s words about Tushnet rang desperately, brilliantly true:

Like many converts who are drawn to the Church, she seems to be seeking a perpetual engine of moral clarity, as if one’s hard moral choices shouldn’t rely on time, place, or circumstance but come in a handy indexed volume. Post-modern morality is a challenging thing because, like a box of squirming puppies, it means you have to be alert to changing priorities and consequences.

Bingo. Read the whole thing.