My mother-in-law was such a devout Catholic, she was packing to go to the convent when she decided to marry instead. She was so ignorant and ashamed of her body that she used several different washcloths to bathe with, so the "clean parts" weren't contaminated by the "dirty parts". We aren't talking actual dirt here!
Catholicism did the same to me. Patriarchal, full of guilt and fear.
My mother-in-law was such a devout Catholic, she was packing to go to the convent when she decided to marry instead. She was so ignorant and ashamed of her body that she used several different washcloths to bathe with, so the "clean parts" weren't contaminated by the "dirty parts". We aren't talking actual dirt here!
I actually had an aunt who became a nun. My grandparents "gave her to the Church," as though she was a farm animal.
Sickening
How tragic for her