"Today's Americans are unaware that the sacred fertility dances performed by African women during ritual possession by their Divine African Mothers, and deities, and the European's ignorance and fear of them earned her, and the African Goddess, the reputation as the 'harlot, whore, prostitute' etc...This attitude sanctioned the widespread rape, and perverted violation of black women's bodies........ To prevent these violations, many generations of black women conditioned by these racist images, moved further away from their African roots, to mimic a 'white irrational ideal' of sexual morality and femininity. Even until the present, black women's bodies are viewed as pornographic, and their gift to creatively swing, and gyrate their hips is viewed as offensive." Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled by Mamissii Vivia Hunter-Hindrew p 435