Intimacy Within the Collective Consciousness there is a core wounding that goes back millennia. I’m going to go out on a limb here and blame religion for this one, because you do not see this distortion within the animal kingdom. The human animal places labels on the different types of human physical interaction, and assigns them a negative or positive connotation. Sex is a loaded weapon within this social construct, and women are held to a much different standard than men. Why is this? I think we have to go back to the dawn of the patriarchy with it’s fear of women and the control that has been exerted over the feminine for thousands of years. The feminine is naturally nurturing, while the masculine in its distorted form, tends to be more fearful and controlling. Isolating. “Oh but we are better than the animals”. Really? Are we? Humans are the only species that destroys its own environment in the name of progress. We are the only ones that pay to live here. We...