{Love and Sex (1) [continued]}[23rd October 1988]

[Redbook6:13-14][19881023:1754b]{Love and Sex (1) [continued]}[23rd October 1988]

19881023.1754

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Perhaps I can attempt a clarification of sexual morality?* On the whole, I think that sexual intercourse is as morally neutral as every other action, in itself; the moral weight is in the associated mental state(s). In Circle terms, treating each act** as a Circle, sexual intercourse commencing through Ordination, [the] will to Outward Action and so forth is Outer Circle and disintegrative; sexual intercourse commencing through Love – self-less Love – is Inner Circle, and Integrative, leading to Harmony and Unity.

It will be noted that although Evil is still passed through at (or near)** the bottom of the Outer Circle, the emphasis is not on morality so much as on psychological effects.

This analysis applies to homosexual intercourse as well as to heterosexual intercourse. The difference is that, on the face of it, a homosexual partnership has not the balance of a heterosexual partnership, and therefore must lack some of the latter’s integrative power (because it lacks some of the sources for integration).***

*[See many, many earlier journal entries….]

[& See next entry]

**[It seems quite likely (given former journal entries) that ‘or near’ applies to where Evil is, rather than where it is passed, ie that ‘or near’ and ‘at’ should be the other way round, although this would be inelegant.]

***[Presumably this assumes that psychological gender elements are always biologically determined or at least consistent, which clearly is not the case.]

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