RELIGION & THEOLOGY

Making Love

Making Love

Introduction

The world is passionate and infatuated with love, or what pretends to be love in a time where the whole thing is a traded product and everyone is a specialist on the private or personal lives of people they are not familiar with. Magazines, television, radio and newspapers speculate continuously on the fundamentally beyond understanding lives of unfamiliar persons. On the other hand, here we have a comprehensive description, from the depth of a love affair that started when the author of this book, Tom Inglis and his wife to be were teenagers and that carries on for him long later than her unfortunately untimely death (Inglis, 2012, p.21). In our world, sociologists are familiarized to analyzing the people in society and cropping up with answers however when Tom's beloved companion, Aileen MacKeogh who was an artist, succumbed to breast cancer he felt drifting (Inglis, 2012, p.21). He required some assistance and support, and to attempt to make logic of it all, if that were possible. Thus, “Making Love” is the title of a splendid memoir written by Tom Inglis. It is a very warm and devoted love letter to his wife, where he informs the world regarding how they survived and loved.

Discussion

Though the book at first started as a way for Tom to deal with his heartache and grief, this is not a desolation memoir. It is extremely inspirational and moving in its absolute honesty and courage. It is also on the subject of the social environment in Ireland of the period when they got together and how it was slowly but steadily shifting, as youngsters tried to get rid of their Catholic guilt on the subject of sex (Inglis, 1999, p.104). Inglis is courageous in how he discloses his feelings. It is extraordinary to read an amazing level of emotional honesty from the perspective of a man and it is a gratification to read something which gives a much uncensored feeling. He describes how he fights back to continue living without his wife and he depicts the cancer journey however he also flows into their life as one prior to the illness.

This is the story of Tom Inglis and Aileen MacKeogh who were the kids of modest privilege; grew up on the well-off and prosperous southside of Dublin, reached to maturity in the mid of 1970s (Inglis, 2012, p.26), got together and tied knot as he was going on board of his career that would set his present position in motion as an esteemed Asst. Professor of Sociology in UCD, and while she was starting on her career as an artist. Their sexual life was truly amazing from the beginning, Aileen bold and adventurous and willingly carnal while Tom conceivably more reserved (Inglis, 2012, p.29), however gathering inventiveness and energy as their life as one grew and flourished. It is crucial to mention this since sex is discussed in this book to a great extent, right till the last days of Aileen when as she ...