Author: Helena Woddis

Helena Woddis

Sofia

Why do the Abrahamic Religions Fear the Female Body, and even Loathe it?

Helena Woddis asks why Judaism, Christianity and Islam fear and condemn the female body, tracing the myth of Eve and male fear of desire, and looking at women’s treatment in Islam.

1 June 2018

SOF Sift: No Man is an Island

Helena Woddis traces her path from conventional churchgoing through disillusion and therapy to the Sea of Faith and Quakerism, finding in Donne’s ‘No man is an island’ a god of her own in music, poetry...

1 December 2012

Eve’s Legacy

Helena Woddis, a sex therapist, thanks Eve for taking the apple. She reads the Eden myth as a story of growth, challenges religious guilt about sex, and calls sexual love a creative and transcendent power.

1 June 2000