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The Achilles' heel of all humanity. The one point on which we are all deeply vulnerable. Sex. Those powerful forces and mechanisms in the form of desires, wants, urges and needs stemming from the sex drive. That point on which none of us are able to trust not only our closest friends, we are not even able to trust ourselves. That seed of our own destruction that we all have within us. Our deceitful heart, our roving eye, our ever active imagination. Desire, Want, Lust --- that itch to have what we ought not have. That propensity to desire that illicit affair; wanting that which, if given, would surely ruin our own happiness and that of others. We constantly struggle with ourselves --- struggle against those deep, powerful, forces within us. Primeval forces that drive male elk, male sheep, male horses, indeed the males of many species, into long furious battles over the possession of females and the right to breed. Forces that drive the procreation process in all creatures. We all have those same forces within us. But unlike the animals we cannot simply give ourselves up to our own cravings and desires. For to do so would not only be against Heaven, against God; it would also be against our own conscience and reason. To do so would be to act against ourselves. For it would hurt other people. And when we hurt other people we also hurt ourselves. July 1993
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