Julia Suryakusuma
The writer is the author of Sex, Power and Nation. She can be contacted at jsuryakusuma@gmail.com

WOULD you expect to hear the Lord’s Prayer when you visit a gynecologist?

That’s what happened to 26-year-old Cinzia when she went to get a pap smear. As a single, sexually-active woman, she simply wanted to know the health status of her reproductive organs, not to be lectured to about what she should do with them. But a sermo