Posted on 01/27/2007 9:04:27 AM PST by do the dhue
A young disabled man who receives care for his life-limiting illness at a hospice run by a nun spoke yesterday of his decision to use a prostitute to experience sex before he dies.
Sister Frances Dominica gave her support to 22-year-old Nick Wallis, who was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Sufferers usually die by their thirties.
Mr Wallis told staff at the Douglas House hospice in Oxford that he wanted to experience sexual intercourse. He explained that he had hoped to form an intimate and loving relationship with a woman, but his disability had acted as a barrier.
He told The Daily Telegraph: "It was a decision two years in the making and I discussed it with my carers and my parents. Telling my mother and father was the hardest part, but in the end they gave me their support.
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I didn't say it was nobody's business.
Prostitution IS legal. We call them "politicians", tho....
Ah, you're correct. I did a little digging, and it looks like it's the Anglican church that was. Thanks for the info.
I don't think so, the man is pictured on the home page of the hospice's web site.
But this Sister is associated with the Church of Scotland, not the Catholic Church, thank God.
You're going to have to explain this one to me, care to elaborate?
Speak for yourself. Most men I know are interested in being something more noble than the collection of their basest biological impulses.
brilliant post
It's amazing the disconnect between conservatives and liberals on this site, huh?
We have freepers who support a candidate who believes in partial-birth abortion and banning handguns, and we have freepers who believe that prostitution should be legalized, and it's okay when a nun buys a hooker for someone.
Sometimes I scratch my head and ask "where did Free Republic go???"
Ed
My mistake -- the clergy and nun involved are actually Anglican. Sorry for the bad ping.
This one?
Thanks.
blark
I don't think that it is very safe for this young man's first time to be with a woman who has possibly had sex with scores of different people. He could catch something terrible AND if he is that close to dying, he would have been better off thinking about his soul and not his winkie.
LOL, I'm glad to know it's not just me!
Ah, OK. I should have looked closer.
For those who may not know, the Church of Scotland is the Scottish Branch of the Church of England, otherwise known as the Established Church or the Anglican Church.
It's the church that was imposed on the Scots by the English, along with the Book of Common Prayer. Most Scots, of course, belong to other churches, chiefly Presbyterian.
It's not widely known, but there are a few religious communities in the Anglican Communion. Most of them used to be very High Church, but I suppose they have decayed with much of the rest of the Anglican Church. When I was an Episcopalian, before my conversion, I used to serve at the Mass (as they called it) at the Cowley Fathers Church in Cambridge, Mass. Sorry to hear that some Anglican religious are behaving, regretably, much like some of the dissident nuns in the Catholic Church.
I share your views here.
Speak for yourself. Most men I know are interested in being something more noble than the collection of their basest biological impulses
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That doesn't mean we don't possess every other wonderful quality that makes us great. I think once you submit and realize and accept thes biological impulses you are secure in yourself and confident.
You see it another way, I understand your position, it was meant tongue in cheek, but I do mean it wholeheartedly.
Sister Frances Dominica*
* Believes that morality and teaching on same in Scripture is relative.
I thought it was a little sad...although it does suggest some ideas for yesterday's Iguana thread.
Maybe she did volunteer, but he was full of pride and wanted nun of it.
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