Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • Part I: IT BEGINS
    • Chapter 1: Facing the Problem
      • What is Sex?
      • Persephone Calls
    • Chapter 2: Getting Programmed
      • We Love You But….
      • Struggling Toward Compassion
      • The Knack
    • Chapter 3: Biology’s Clout
    • Chapter 4: The Consequences
      • Am I a Masochist?
      • Buying the Victim Role
        • Intimidation
        • Am I My Craziness?
      • Persephone Regrets
      • Avoidance Giving Up
  • Part II: CHANGING IT
    • Chapter 5: Healing the Culture
    • Chapter 6: The Art of the Self
      • Right Ego
      • Lysistrata?
      • Beyond Projection
      • Recycling Hurt
    • Chapter 7: Reframing Religion
    • Chapter 8: The Practice of Body
    • Chapter 9: Relationship
      • Relationship Expectations
      • When He Raises His Voice
      • A Perfect Pair
  • Part III: OWNING SEX
    • Chapter 10: Hunting Tantra
    • Chapter 11: Sex I Want
      • The Ground Opens
      • Beyond Al-Ith
    • Chapter 12: Arousal
      • Delightful Magic
      • Seventh Wave
    • Chapter 13: Orgasm
      • Gift of the Wind
  • Part IV: CHOOSING
    • Chapter 14: Centering
    • Chapter 15: Direction
      • I Choose Life
    • Chapter 16: Re-vision
    • Chapter 17: No Wrap
  • References
  • Updates
  • Contact
  • About…
Persephone's Choice

Persephone’s Choice

Re-visioning the Victim Goddess

Persephone's Choice > Part I: IT BEGINS > Chapter 2: Getting Programmed

Chapter 2: Getting Programmed

The world I grew up in brainwashed its children. Here’s how it got me.

A few samples of the contents of Chapter 2:

We Love You But….
Struggling Toward Compassion
The Knack

(The book contains much more.)

Comments

Part I: IT BEGINS

  • Chapter 1: Facing the Problem
    • What is Sex?
    • Persephone Calls
  • Chapter 2: Getting Programmed
    • We Love You But….
    • Struggling Toward Compassion
    • The Knack
  • Chapter 3: Biology’s Clout
  • Chapter 4: The Consequences
    • Am I a Masochist?
    • Buying the Victim Role
      • Intimidation
      • Am I My Craziness?
    • Persephone Regrets
    • Avoidance Giving Up

Additions & Updates

  • New Section: Am I a Masochist?
  • Four pages added on relationship struggles
  • Better Than Praise

Random Quote

In my deepest spiritual darkness, the now was the only place to go or be.

— Robert J. Wicks / Riding the Dragon