Womanhood is something that doesn't seem to have a real description

Megs said:

Womanhood is is something that doesn't seem to have a real description. Once you try to define it, you limit what it can be, and it should be a force. And all real forces of nature move without boundaries. Womanhood is like nature. It encompasses everything. It touches everyone, and it is a symbol of life.
I don't like to think that all African Americans have a certain attitude toward anything because we are all individuals and have our own minds. But I would like to see more people embrace sex as something that is akin to love and instead of a sin. When you demonize something beautiful, all the products of it are suspected to be dirty as well. People will live in the closet with their dirty secrets allowing it to torture them and become something painful and violent. Being more open with conversations involving sex and not trying to proselytize a certain dogma is very important in making people think about what it is they are doing and why they do it.

 Thank you Megs for your comments!
Megs you bring up some great points about African American attitudes toward womanhood and human sexuality.  Some of our attitudes are based on our history as African American women.  African American women activists of the nineteenth and  early 20th century fought against stereotypes that labeled African American women as liars, sluts, and whores. 
Read what Mrs. Mary Church Terrell  says about that time:

When Ernestine Rose, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony began that agitation by which colleges were opened to women and the numerous reforms inaugurated for the amelioration of their condition along all lines, their sisters who groaned in bondage had little reason to hope that these blessings would ever brighten their crushed and blighted lives, for during those days of oppression and despair, colored women were not only refused admittance to institutions of learning, but the law of the States in which the majority lived made it a crime to teach them to read.

During slavery and Jim Crow African American women's sexuality was defined as promiscuity.  And African American women leaders worked very hard to remove that stigma. While we should not limit what womanhood is Megs, I do think we need to define what womanhood isn't.  Womanhood is not limited to what is between a woman's legs and women have more to offer humanity than simply what is between their legs.  
Also many African American women identify themselves as Christian and Christianity defines sex as the function of marital procreation and marital intimacy.  Any sexual relations that is not related to either making babies during marriage or promoting intimacy in marriage is considered wrong.    Two of the ten commandments deal directly with sexuality: "Thou shalt not covet" and "Thou shalt not commit adultery", both the Old and New Testaments consider homosexuality  and premarital sex wrong. 
But the reality the 21st century church faces is while it condemns certain sexual behaviors, both Catholic and Protestant pastors and  leaders have been caught in horrific sex abuse scandals.  But it is not just the church leadership that has problems with double standards in terms of sexuality, we as loyal congregants endorse public policy that outlaws abortion, insist on abstinence only sex education, forbids gay marriage, limits entitlement programs, while coping in our personal lives with teenage pregnancy, increased exposure to sexually transmitted diseases, single-parent homes, extra-marital affairs, closeted or "down low" family and church members. 

Where do we go from here? We need more discussion on womanhood and sexuality.