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Venus Has a Sense of Humor
The fun of a good laugh at the foolish aspects of human sexuality.
Having laughed hysterically at both Fegger and Bullwinkle’s submissions to the ‘feather and velvet glove’ writing challenges, with their sexual innuendos, I felt that wisdom inspired from my beloved author, C.S. Lewis would be appropriate. In his chapter on Eros in his book titled ‘The Four Loves’ Lewis makes known that his usage of the name Venus will be used to depict the sexual element within Eros love. So I shall use his term as well to share what, I feel, is just good old common sense.
Venus, as we shall refer to the sexual realm of humanity, should not be maintained totally within the realms seriousness. There is very good reason that every literary culture in the world contains jokes about sex. Too often, particularly in the Christian community, we have avoided this arena as unholy and a possible danger to spiritual life. But might it be proposed, that a little light hearted laughter at the mistress Venus would be of less danger to the Christian life than the approaches of the past, which tended towards either total silence, or a reverential gravity that made it such serious business that even a wink would be certainly frowned upon. And may I also propose, that it is unnecessary to approach her singularly with the view of perfected passion that is portrayed to us in the best of romance novels and cinema. But rather to assume that the majority of people are perfectly right in their belief that Venus is in part a comic spirit.
Venus herself can be quite an imp and will make great sport of us when we approach her on every occasion with such serious tones. We often find that when ‘the moment is just right’, as the television commercials tell us, that one or both of the intended partners, no longer seem so disposed. When we find ourselves in circumstances, where we could not possibly act on her imploring call, she will stir up passions quite capable of distracting us from all other serious business. An hour later, when the time and place are completely appropriate, she seems nowhere to be found; or at least, mysteriously, having disappeared from only one, of the previously agreeable parties. And this of course can cause all sorts of troubles. But, if we have any sense, we’ll laugh at her joke on us, realizing it’s all part of her game.
When we take this subject, that tends to be treated in extremes, and bring it down to earth by facing it head on with basic common sense, we keep a proper balance. Not elevating it constantly to a place of unwarranted ideal, but at the same time, not leaving it totally trashed in the gutter. If we view it properly, we are able to understand that both can be contained, the sacred and beautiful, as well as the foolish and absurd, all within– our beloved Venus
Here are the links to Fegger and Bullwinkle’s poems mentioned above, for your amusement.
http://www.authspot.com/Poetry/Peacock-Lost-His-Plumage.749397
http://www.authspot.com/Poetry/Love-is-a-Many-Antlered-Thing.762837
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Yes, indeed Venus does conspire to her own whim…..great little piece of writing!
For fans of Lewis, my apologies for paraphrasing his wisdom from ‘The Four Loves’. I would have preferred to quote him but that would not be admitted as ‘original content’. I have done my best to preserve his intent within my own verbage.
This is a really cool article. I liked this HEAPS. A really refreshing look.
Oh, yes. The infernal sense of humor of Venus is legend.
this is a great write,,I enjoyed this very much..I love all your work..your friend and fan…Rich
Nice article. Thanks for sharing
Great writing idea. Thanks.
cool stuff. I like it.
Venus doesn’t come visiting here much nowadays! Great write Katie and don’t be frightened to use direct quotes in the right context. If you quote the source, then everythings OK, after all it would be nigh on impossible to review any subject matter without using a direct quote.
If you think that the quote that you wanted to use would enhance your article, submit a fix.
Very interesting perspective! Nice article.
Very good. I think she may have had a hand centuries ago when Monks were translating Catholic law and left the “r” out of “celebrate.”
Alas, this is my ‘fix’. They rejected the one where I quoted Lewis with full attribution as to the source. They said it was not ‘original content’. It did comprise most of two paragraphs, so I’m sure they considered it too extensive.
Great article! You handled this topic with Christian perspective, after all God invented sex, and the Bible says that marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure.
I can’t find my copy of Lewis’ “The Four Loves”. He is one of my favourites as well. That is odd that Triond would not permit a quote. I often include quotes.Perhaps your article was too short to balance your original content.
Ken: I think that Catholic law did not consult the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 7″1-5 says:
“It is good for a man not to marry. 2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
And they definitely should have taken a gander at v. 9:
“But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”
The history of the Catholic church could have avoided a heap of trouble if they had consulted the Bible on this topic.
Nice read, I really like your wording and light humour. Katie once again for another really great write. Always,gary La Buda
Enjoyed it very much.
I was essentially going to say what George said – so long as you are giving accurate references for your quotes you are not violating the rules of ‘original content.’ You just can’t take someone else’s words and say they are your own. (Though in this post-modern era those rules are constantly being tested and challenged) Still a nice piece of writing and a really interesting topic. It stretches the brain a little bit to consider the Greek gods and goddesses alongside of the Christian trinity. I like it.
A very nice article. I read all of the Lion the witch and wardrobe books when I was a kid and never knew they were about Christianity. That guy was a great teacher and I didnt even know I was being taught.