Julian of Norwich.

[katranna]

We read her in my Feminist Theology class back in college. I had been busy that week and didn't actually do the reading, so, catching a friend on the steps to class, I asked her to quickly tell me what I missed in the reading. She replied, "blood, blood, more blood, dripping blood, pouring blood, oh and, some more blood

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[many_others_yet]

I can't decide whether I'm annoyed by my reading various Christian mystics through my perverted lens (it's so distracting and I want spiritual revelation too!) or whether it's because of the sex that I'm drawn to them in the first place. Probably the latter.

[katranna]

Well, you can combine the two, you know. Of course I don't think Julian was seriously writing s&m fantasy, but there is an undeniable eroticism--or mayhaps I should say "intense sensuality--in her writing, and in a lot of mystics' writing, I think.