{Love and Sex (4) [continued]}[2nd August 1989]

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Normal sexual impulses arising naturally within the Individual should not be a cause for agonising or guilt: they should be answered in the appropriate manner, which can be discovered generally as a matter of social ethics, ie how to treat others on a Christian basis. They should not be deliberately projected to* others in an effort to provoke sexual impulses in them which would not otherwise have occurred: it is not so difficult for the experienced sense to know when another person in a relationship is naturally ready for sexual intercourse, and some ‘chemistry’ often tells us. Much modern (and animal) behaviour is, therefore, misconceived.**

It would be stupid to suppress normal and natural sexual impulses, even if sexual intercourse is not always available to the ethically-minded (compromise is, as always, unavoidable). Since by all accounts we are sexually most active in early adulthood, and become less interested – generally speaking – as we get older: I would not try to prevent sexually mature young adults from sexual intercourse, except on medical grounds (if any); certainly not on religious grounds. The teens are the time for learning about sex as a part of life: I should simply advise them generally to be extremely wary against having sexual intercourse where they doubt there is mutual love [sic], and I should try to teach them what Love is,*** and how to identify it in themselves and in others, and how it relates to sexuality. I should also warn them of the emotional and physical complications which may result from sexual intercourse (and from sexual frustration), and how to avoid them: how not to get hurt, or caught.

*[Originally ‘onto’ – ‘on’ deleted]

**{Old joke – see earlier (Vol?) [[Redbook6:38-39)][19881126:1330]{Right Homosexuality}[26th November 1988]]}

***{They, ideally, should have learnt this intuitively from their parents' love of them.}

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