Notes about Sexuality and Religion

Greer looked at the mystery and shame surrounding knowledge of women’s bodies and the constrictions placed on their sexuality. Women, she argued, are conditioned under pressure from the “feminizers” to abandon their autonomy and embrace a stereotyped version of femininity. The result is helplessness, resentment, a lack of sexual pleasure, an absence of joy.

The author Germaine Greer (born 1939) was born in Australia and lived in England. [age 31 in 1970]

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/germaine-greer

Two themes here point toward Greer’s later book Sex and Destiny: her belief that the suburban, isolated, and consumer-oriented nuclear family is both constraining for women and an undesirable environment in which to bring up children, and her dislike of the way Western industrialized society “manufactured” and therefore confined sexuality.
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While promoting The Female Eunuch in Australia and New Zealand in 1972 she was a witness for the defense in two obscenity trials in which the offending publications included counter-culture magazines and the novel Portnoy’s Complaint. In New Zealand she was charged with using indecent language at a public meeting in the Auckland Town Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/09/germaine-greer-on-rape-book-three-women-respond

Yvonne Roberts, writer and journalist
I was a student at Warwick University when Greer was an English lecturer. She was 6ft tall with a halo of hair, thrillingly living out the sexual revolution with brio, a believer in the Reichian view that sexual freedom was the gateway to all other freedoms. Meanwhile, in the real world, we knew that a girl who “put it about” found herself labelled the campus bike. Magisterially, Greer has always assumed that her experience at any given time is universal to all women.
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Greer is right: “The system [is] not working.” As a victim of rape as a teenager, she rightly argues that rape is often not violent and it doesn’t destroy the victim. But it can.

Part of her solution is to effectively decriminalise rape so that, she writes, women don’t have to go through the ordeal of court (overlooking the due processes of law); perpetrators should be given 200 hours of community service or branded with the letter “R”. It’s an argument, not an edict.

What Greer ignores is that rape is always a violation, a breach of a woman’s bodily autonomy, even when there are no physical wounds. Rape feeds a culture of fear (one in eight Hollywood films features a rape).