I was in a position that allowed me to see manu***********s that predated what we now recognize as the accepted Bible. Sex I was unsure. In the Catholic Church, as elsewhere, that need is still being met. I slipped a hand from his back, around his hip, and, tentatively, over his crotch. The Mother Superior has such plans for your energy and willingness to be with the poor and forgotten.”
“Thank you, but …”
“Sister … what if there might be an alternative?” Alternative? I felt a growing hardness of his loins against my stomach. I sucked harder, my mouth moving urgently over his cock. Thus, the need to disempower the figure of Mary Magdalene, so that her succeeding sisters in the church would not compete with men for power, meshed with the impulse to discredit women generally. Then, held tightly … he moaned. Just as the ‘canonical’ Gospels emerged from communities that associated themselves with the ‘evangelists’, who did not actually ‘write’ the texts, this one is named for Mary not because she ‘wrote’ it, but because it emerged from a community that recognized her authority.”
He continued to explain that the question was not only about Mary Magdalene, but about women generally. Eventually, they ran out of land but these were resourceful women who were willing to endure anything to fulfill the mission as
