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Don't Blame Nuns for Your Bad Sex Life: Catholic Honcho

Cosmo editor struggles 'to undo damage'

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(Newser) – Are Catholic nuns responsible for repressed and sexually frustrated American women? That's absolute nunsense, fumes a conservative Catholic leader after a former sex-columnist-turned-deputy-editor at Cosmo blamed uptight teaching by nuns for women's sexual hangups. "It's not easy to undo damage caused by years of exposure to Catholic-school nuns," Nicole Beland wrote in response to a reader's query about his repressed lover.

In fact, fumed William Donahue of the Catholic League, repressed women may have been molested. "No, for Beland it is empirically obvious that Sister Mary Alice did it," said Donahue. "Imagine some poor soul asking about his sexually promiscuous wife. Imagine Beland answering, 'It's not easy to undo damage caused by years of exposure to Jewish-school teachers or overly liberal parents.' "

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Laura
Apr 26, 09 5:00 PM CDT
I'm a Catholic taught by nuns and I have a fantastic sex life. This Cosmo editor has had one too many - cosmos, shall we say? Reply
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Collusive
Apr 26, 09 5:14 PM CDT
you can't be a real catholic and have a fantastic sex life, only a real hypocrite.
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shonangreg
Apr 26, 09 6:59 PM CDT
Collusive, it is not apparent from your message that you're joking. Could you clear this up, please?
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riffran
Apr 26, 09 9:54 PM CDT
YOU GO GIRLLLLLL.....the editor is obviously FOS.....but I bet they could dredge up some poor weak minded sould that actually listened to a pent up nun...given time
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TerrifiedCitizen
Apr 26, 09 5:50 PM CDT
Uh, Laura...could you leave a discreet note with your number? Thanks Reply
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