1. "Aphrodite, huh? So you're all skyclad and your priestess is a prostitute, right?"


If by my priestess, you mean my girlfriend, I wouldn't suggest that you say that in front of either of us.

Skyclad? Not really. It would be more accurate to say that a ritual that I preside over will usually be clothing optional, and the option I'm likeliest to choose is to wear clothing. But, if you feel more comfortable without, I won't stop you or allow someone else to invalidate your choice. As long as you conduct yourself with a degree of dignity and with respect toward the others present, I feel very strongly that this should be regarded as your own personal choice and that those who have issues with this should recognise that they own their own issues, and have no right to expect others to be bound by them.

Moreover, the prohibition against public nudity is, as those who have supported it have often acknowledged, based on the sexual pleasure that some will feel in seeing the unclothed forms of others. In the stern traditional Judeo-Christian context many of us grew up in, this is viewed as being contrary to the will of God. Aphrodite, however, is not a puritanical diety, and I believe that such a desire to put an end to what is really a harmless pleasure, in addition to being quite spiteful, runs contrary to her wishes.

To a large extent, the rule I insist on at my events will be "live and let live" - up to a point, and it will be a point well down the road, usually, from how far most of those present would really want to go, even given total freedom.


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