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One of my friends believes that sexual repression is the reason for almost all problems, from behavioral to criminal. How important is sexuality? Is there such a thing as a religious calling, or, as my friend says, is that the sole reason for the sexual scandal in the Catholic Church?
Sex is an appetite.
It’s very important to realize this.
It is neither holy, nor is it hedonistic.
If monkeys can do it, it’s probably not super-spiritual, and if the end process of the procedure is procreation–the birthing of other human beings–it’s probably not evil.
You have to find the balance. What is the balance?
For instance, another bodily function is a bowel movement. Constipation makes us sick. But diarrhea is also a sign that we’re ill. What we want are healthy bowel movements.
And what we also want is a healthy sex life.
Since sex is not terribly difficult to do, it’s probably unrealistic to think that people are going to avoid it until they get married at age twenty-six.
Yet because it has so many physical ramifications, disease possibilities, and the potential of pregnancy, it should probably not be open season beginning at the age of twelve.
There are three reasons that people say they have sex:
- They love each other
- They want each other
- They desire a child
Of course, there are variations on those–and different intensity levels. But as you can see, those three do not naturally connect.
In other words, love for someone can be manufactured because we are physically stimulated.
Wanting someone can be extremely temporary, until the orgasm is achieved.
And having a baby is an eighteen-minute production for an eighteen-year problem.
So the church tends to teach that the best practice is to refrain from sex until marriage, even though there are no people sitting in the pew who feel that is actually possible–or followed the practice themselves.
The world, on the other hand, or the secular community, thinks that free sexual expression is essential as a choice of adulthood, but offers no comfort for those who are heartbroken or stricken by disease because of promiscuity, or left with horrible choices due to unwanted pregnancy.
We are in the process of finding a balance.
To me, the best way to achieve this is to make it clear to young people–and older folks, for that matter–what sex is.
1. Sex is pleasure.
The fact that a creative God also uses it as a means of procreating our species is just smart due to the fact that if making babies took great effort, we would soon be extinct.
Trying to make sex anything other than pleasure is putting a golden crown on a pig.
2. As pleasure, it is a lesson in discovering how to mutually respect the person we are sharing the experience with at all times.
The idea that women are growing up believing that sex is for men and that they are not necessarily supposed to have an orgasm is one of the greatest abuses to the female.
3. Sex is emotional.
Here’s the trick and here’s the problem: as human beings, we seem to be incapable of separating the physical act of pleasure from the emotional tie of friendship or love. This introduces jealousy. This promotes some revenge. It causes sex to become a tool of pain rather than the promoter of pleasure.
4. Sex is attached to our passion.
Just because you said you loved someone ten years ago doesn’t mean you want to crawl in bed with them and have a crazy night of love-making. If the emotional, mental and spiritual energy does not continue, then the horniness quickly wears off. So we develop silly words like “soul mate” to describe the latest person who excites us.
Human sexuality is tainted both by repression and too much expression.
It is a physical act with emotional overtones, stimulated by mental commitment and spiritual energy.
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