DAY 357: SPIRITUAL SUNDAY
Sacred Prostitute Day

The New Age Tantra gurus did not invent sacred sexuality. Unless you have studied the history of sex (or religions), you probably don’t know that temple priestesses were sacred prostitutes in many cultures. Although the clergy fathered many illegitimate children, the Christian church turned sex into sin. Christians have not quite recovered from that. And look what the ayatollahs have done to Islam in the Middle East!

Have you heard of St. Aphra? The patron saint of reformed prostitutes, she was a sacred prostitute in the Temple of Venus and perhaps the Temple of Aphrodite. After her conversion, she was burned at the stake for being on the wrong side of church politics at the time. The stories of the Christian divine usually end badly in torment of one sort or another. Go online or to a bookstore and seek out some goddess/sacred prostitute role models today. Rituals typically include sexual dancing, fellatio, and intercourse with a highly talented vagina.

Some suggestions:

• Astarte, Phoenician goddess of love

• Ardan, Celtic goddess of love

• Branwen, Irish goddess of love

• Freya, German goddess of love

• Isis, Egyptian goddess of love

• Juno, Roman goddess of love

• Ursula, Haitian goddess of love

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