How To Worship A Woman Without Freaking Her Out

Writer, teacher, and public speaker Arjuna Ardagh wrote an article for Huffington Post a couple of years ago that stuck with me. (Ardagh was behind the much-talked-about video I featured in this blog post.)
In it, he wrote:

I have had many, many great teachers in my life. A super abundance. No one and nothing comes close to the woman who is now asleep in the bedroom. My marriage has become the guru, the salvation, the muse, the crack through which the divine shines through.

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On this point, I agree with him entirely. I was perfectly content and self-sufficient before I got married. Now, my world would be shattered if she were gone. There is a healthy co-dependence that comes from building something that’s bigger than either of you and depends on the both of you for its very existence. When you’re in someone’s corner completely, and you feel 100% safe, life is as beautiful as it can possibly be. This is what I wish for you if you wish it for yourself.

The author, however, is not content with mutual respect, laughter, and trust. He’s big on “worship” or men worshipping women. That’s where he loses me. Particularly this paragraph, which should make every man shudder or laugh:

“Do what I did, and create an altar in your room dedicated to Divine Feminine. Put only symbols of the feminine on it. I have a painting called “Beatrix” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I have a statue of Quan Kin. Populate your altar with anything that reminds you of the feminine, and spend a few minutes of the day in worship. Yes, worship. Adoration. Devotion. Offer up rose petals. Offer poems. Offer everything, and beg Her to reveal Her innermost essence to you. This will work miracles whether you’re single and waiting to meet the right woman or whether you’re already in a relationship and long to meet your woman in a deeper way.”

I’m all about communication and depth; but a shrine? Make men worship women? Really? For every great woman that will feel honored by your respect for her goddessness, there will be 10 other women who are completely creeped out by you.

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Want to be a good partner, guys? Watch your kid while she goes on a girls’ night out. Plan a romantic staycation with a spa treatment. Call her to tell her you love her while you’re away on business. I did all these things in the past week, and my relationship is both deep and strong – without having to build myself a vagina-shaped fireplace that uses Georgia O’Keefe prints as kindling.

Read the full article here and let me know what you think about the need for men to worship women. Is respect enough? Or do you prefer a man who worships women? And if you’re a goddess, does that make him a god? And does that mean he gets his own penis shrine, as well?

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