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The Power of a Whore’s Body

Sacred Whore, Women's WisdomBy CCApril 1, 2014Leave a comment

Here’s a funny thing I learned a long time ago: Prostitution is deeply embedded in all civilized bodies, in one way or another. The chronic collective repression of everything it represents makes it not only a huge part of our collective shadow, but also a collectively visceral shadow. I know this because when I say…

Distinguishing between Prostitutes and Courtesans

Sacred WhoreBy CCJanuary 30, 2014Leave a comment

So, I was just half-listening to a talk by Amy Tan on MPR while going about some daily routines, and I didn’t hear the whole thing, but, interestingly (to me), I tuned in as she began to talk about beginning to suspect that her beloved grandmother (who is long dead, but evidently still very active…

Ho Stories

Identity, Sacred Whore, Women's WisdomBy CCDecember 2, 2013Leave a comment

So I’ve been researching the genre of whore memoirs lately, looking for a good agent to help me publish the Lunch Guy as a book, and here’s what I’ve uncovered: First – there has been a big surge in prostitute memoirs in the past decade (I knew that, but my research reaffirmed that sense). More…

The Touch of the Sacred Whore

Active Feminine, Eros/Libido, Sacred WhoreBy CCDecember 2, 20122 Comments

My husband does energy work – which he’d call a misnomer because what he does doesn’t fit into quite that clear a category. It’s kind of a shamanic, James Hillman-esque, soul, mythic energy dialog. He has a highly developed, and very sensitive feminine side. Plus he’s schooled in the energetic and erotic nuances of whores…

The Missing Voice

Active Feminine, Sacred Feminine, Sacred Whore, Women's WisdomBy CCJuly 16, 20121 Comment

“There had been countless women like me in the beds of kings but no one ever heard their stories, because who would care?“ Jillian Lauren I didn’t start out intrigued. I started out, like most would, terrified – it was a threat, not a mystery. That “I know how you’re going to turn out” business…

It’s Just Lunch – A Perversion of Prostitution

Just Lunch, Sacred WhoreBy CCJune 10, 20121 Comment

Fourteenth in a series [gs *] So, I’ve sent the go-away email a few hours ago and we’re still doing TK, [gs TK] ferretting out what blocks me from preempting those goo-bombs. We’ve established that I flip my body-awareness switch to off when faced with an ego-incongruity, but not always. It’s not like I go…

Who is the Sacred Whore?

Active Feminine, Basic Premises, Eros/Libido, Sacred Feminine, Sacred Whore, Women's WisdomBy CCApril 24, 20127 Comments

[gs **] Who was “the sacred prostitute”? And what happened to the developing consciousness of humankind when people no longer venerated the goddess of love, passion and sex? So asks Jungian Psychologist Nancy Qualls-Corbett, early in her book The Sacred Prostitute. She goes on later: These questions bothered me. Much as I wanted to put…

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