{Love and Sex (9)}[4th October 1989]

[Redbook6:288-290][19891004:1242]{Love and Sex (9)}[4th October 1989]

19891004.1242

*I make no apologies for returning again (and again and again) to the analysis of sexual and other expressions of Love, because the precision of that analysis will be a significant factor in determining whether (if I become a Parish Priest) I shall be able to offer – to be – a ministry of Love without fear of falling.

Words – the inadequacies of language – are as always a problem. It is insufficiently precise to talk about sexual or physical intercourse when what is meant is genital intercourse. Sexual intercourse** is intercourse (including social intercourse) between the sexes, although it is commonly used to mean genital intercourse. Physical intercourse includes a hug or even a handshake. Genital intercourse involves physical contact with at least one of the participants’ genitalia*** by any part of the other participant’s body,**** for enjoyment; it therefore includes buggery.

*{→[[Redbook6:281-283][19890929:2152b][{Love and Sex (8)}][29th September 1989]ff,] 283}

**(I shall probably avoid the expression, for clarity!) (perhaps using ‘inter-sexual intercourse’ instead, and ‘intra sexual intercourse[’] between the same sex).

***[ie with the genitalia of at least one of the participants, presumably....]

****I think this restriction is correct... ie not just [ie purely] visual contact.

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