In ‘rape free’ societies women are treated with considerable respect, and prestige is attached to female reproductive and productive roles. Interpersonal violence is minimized, and a people’s attitude regarding the natural environment is one of reverence rather than one of exploitation.
The foundation myth of Diktyna shows how when women receives a divine initiation and make a resolve to abstain from sexual relations, and do so with a deep connection to a virgin goddess it is so strong within them that they will remove themselves with any means from the pursuit of men... knowing that this will lead them to their immortality...
Consequently, rape, as sexual politics in the Biblical narrative, also became the way to ensure women’s objectification as existing to satisfy the desires of men even if this meant by force, obscuring the spiritual potential of our reproductive cycles and most of all the role that vows have on our as women to understand and attain the divine.
The cause is how women’s way of aligning with God’s rules through rites of passage and fertility-based rituals was suppressed by way of magnifying the importance of biological birth, marriage and sexual relations as opposed to spiritual rebirth for both men and women. Rape seeped into people’s mentality as something that can happen and men mostly do to women hence creating existential crisis for both men and women as it takes us all away from our truth. It’s created a fear in women’s life that it may happen and this is not OK.
Religion should work towards changing this reality by explaining that these are metaphors for what we should not be doing not using to create a life reality, a possibility that can occur. It should never have been part of our reality or our mentality. Ever.
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