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June 21, 2015

ANOTHER

RISK: Dusty the dolphin

Dolphin a
threat to
swimmers
By LYNNE KELLEHER
SWIMMERS have been
told not to treat a solitary
dolphin off the west
coast as a playful pet.
A new poster campaign
from the Irish Whale and
Dolphin Group (IWDG)
on Inis Or, on the
Aran Islands, has been
cautioning the public
about getting too close
to the 12ft bottlenose
dolphin, widely known
as Dusty but christened
Sandy by the islanders.
The mammal has had
boisterous encounters
with swimmers and
injured people by
ramming them, causing
broken ribs and internal
damage.

Harm
Welfare Officer
with the IWDG Paul
Kiernan said: We have
developed a concept
of dolphins as being
similar to pets. Just
as you wouldnt go
in with a tiger or an
elephant, you shouldnt
go in with a dolphin
because the behaviour is
unpredictable,
If we interact in a
way that it perceives
as unacceptable it has
the potential to cause
significant harm.
In the short term you
interact with a dolphin
and its fantastic, but
in the longer term you
are changing its natural
behaviour. The research
on solitary dolphins
shows a link to dolphin
mortality related to
human activity.

EXCLUSIVE

Life in the
chast lane

CHASTE:
Dawn
Eden

HOW DAWN WENT FROM

LIVING THE PARTY LIFE TO
BECOMING CELIBACY GURU

By GERALDINE COMISKEY
SHE WAS living the Sex and the City dream
then she took a vow of celibacy.

In her twenties, New York rock journalist Dawn

Eden was sleeping around with drummers and
songwriters and hanging out with groupies.

As a teenager she dated a porn magazine writer, but

now, at 46, shes the worlds number one chastity guru.

The author of international bestseller The Thrill of the

Chaste: Finding Fulfilment While Keeping Your Clothes
On, has attracted millions of followers and recently toured
Europe.
The former agnostic, who was raised as a Jew and became a
Catholic 10 years ago, was in Ireland this week to give free public
talks in Dublin, Belfast and Waterford, where 78 people of all ages
met her at a Caf Theology event organised by Bishop Alphonsus
Cullinan of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.
She says in her book that she became a rock journalist
because I thought musicians were the sexiest creatures
on earth and lost her virginity at the age of 23 to a man I
found attractive but didnt love just to get it out of the way.
Three years before, her rock-musician boyfriend had left
her for a sexually experienced friend.
She explained: What I took from that rejection was that I
had to gain sexual experience if I wanted to have any chance
of keeping a man [but] I only became more insecure.
Unmarried men and women
become caught in a vicious
cycle.

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Depression
They feel lonely because they
are not loved, so they lend their
bodies to lovers who do not love
them. That was my life.
Dawn told the Waterford
rford
audience: I found myself
in dead-end relationships.
ships. I
was suffering from suicidal
icidal
depression.
But she has gone from
om believing a man wouldnt
t love
me unless I have sex with
th him
to consecrating myself
self to
Jesus, living chastely as a single
woman. Before, I was living
unchastely as a single woman.
man.
Giving up the rock and
d roll
lifestyle also helped her forgive
her mother for not taking
ng her
seriously when she confided
nfided
that she had been molested
sted in
her local synagogue.
Her first response was:
s: You
let him do those things. I was
five years old.
She says her mother,, who
converted to Catholicism when
Dawn was 16, also sent
nt out
conflicting messages about
sexual behaviour.
She said: My mother
er

PREACHING: Dawn gives talk in Waterford

ROCK AND ROLLER: Dawn with Brian Wilson
told me she hoped I would not
people to contracept not only terviewed or photographed.
have sex with a man unless I
children but to sterilise their They ranged in age from late
was in love with him but she
emotions. It encourages women teens (a Pure in Heart group)
had men who would stay over
to have sex like a man I dont to over 70, and most were midand she was into various New
even believe that a man can dle-aged.
Age practices such as [tantric]
Later, Dawn told the Sunday
have sex like a man if it means
yoga.
World: Dress is part of chastisterilising his emotions.
Dawn told the Sunday World
The Church teaches that ty... its about seeing yourself
she is not against yoga.
body and soul are in unity. God and other human beings as not
I dont think theres anything
made us in His image this is collections of body parts.
inherently wrong with doing
If you wear things that cause
what makes us truly a human
the downward dog pose, but
people to look at your body parts
being.
when you bring in the spiritual
While Dawns mother is sup- rather than your face you are
side its sending up a prayer of
portive of her choices , her harming your community, but
intent other than to the God of
brother, a doctor in Tel Aviv, this does not mean you have to
Abraham and Jesus Christ.
and her sister, a Rabbi, were dress drably.
g yo
gs
Its op
opening
you up to things
initially
y uncomfortHelp
that are not Christian. Haable with Dawns
tha Yoga is okay, but
Catholicism.
She said she disagrees with
Sh
Kundalini yoga
Dawn decided extr
extremists who claim that
is all about
to devote her Cath
Catholic women are supposed to
chakras and
life to study- follow the Blessed Virgin Marys
breaths of
ing theology own fashion rules they think
fire.
when she was you have to wear ankle-length
But she
fired from her skir
skirts, wrist-length sleeves and
says mainjob as a sub-edi- a ne
neckline two fingers breadth
stream cultor for the New from the throat.
ture is more to
York Post in
After the talk, she sold and
Af
blame for promis2005 for sign
signed copies of her books and
cuity.
changing a hand
handed out prayer cards on
The wider culreporters ar- beha
behalf of Aid to the Church
ture thinks sex
ticle to give it (an international organisation
is something for
a pro-life slant. that gives help to persecuted
recreation. It
Most of the Chri
Christians). Some people also
encourmainly female au- donated
don
to Aid to the Church.
ages
dience at WednesThere
Th
was a Fr Ted moment
days talk did when Dawn described her visit
not want to th
the city of Paisley in Scotto be land and some of the audience
inWILD: Dawn
thought she meant the late
thou
in party days
Reverend Ian.
Rev
I made a faux pas I was the
only person wearing Paisley. I
love Paisley! she said hastily adding: The city and the
fabric.
fa