{Sexual Intercourse (& Dream Nakedness) [continued (3)]}[14th August 1988]

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The problem with sexual intercourse, of course, is that it is transient:* and any relationship based on it tends to be transient too, unless (as sometimes happens) it can be converted into something deeper. Every girl intuitively knows – or should know – that if she and her partner build up the relationship in a more inward way first, it has a better chance of being a lasting relationship of love expressed in all ways, including sexual intercourse.

The symbolism of the Circles (such as T.XIV), of course, applies at many levels. Perhaps all that my fair-haired girls, my Undines, are trying to tell me is what any girl might be expected to tell any man she really cared about: that sexual intercourse at too early a stage brings risks of a merely transient relationship. This relationship is in an Inner Sense: it is about things of the Spirit; and even ** on a purely symbolic level, even with creations within the Inner World, sexual intercourse should not come first.**

(Well, I am listening. Tell me those things which are first: not now, but when you will.)***

*Because, of course, it is one expression of love but not only an expression of love.

**[“as” in the ms here seems clearly to have been accidentally left over from the first draft “as a symbol” and has therefore been omitted from this ts. <20190109>]

***[In fiction, presumably, as that would seem the only possibility. But cf the Narrator and +K in [0]?!]]

****Love, of course, you dill.#

#[That’s the fourth ‘of course’ in this entry.]

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