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                       %CONFORMITY SEXUAL INTEGRITY 800022

     One  of the central questions which each culture must
deal  with  is  the  question of how to  deal  with  human
sexuality---with  personal  and  communal  integrity.    A
failure to do so undermines the integrity of the community
by, occasioning high levels of emotional and intellectual,
religious,  economic,  political,  and military  violence.
Success  in creatively dealing with sexuality depends upon
a profound understanding of and respect for both  personal
and communal integrity.

     Integrity can not be achieved through conformity. One
person can not  through  conformity  copy another person's
integrity.   One community can not through conformity copy
another community's integrity.  To have integrity a person
or community must be true to that which is  unique in  the
person or community.   The practice of conformity does not
respect that which is unique,  and  so tends  to undermine
personal and communal integrity.   The practice  of sexual
conformity  which does not respect that which is unique to
each individual and society---thus  tends to undermine the
personal and communal integrity of those who are involved.

     The  creative  channeling of sexuality must be  based
upon other than conformity---if it is to  promote personal
and  communal integrity.   The prime concern  must  be the
promotion   of  personal  and  communal  integrity   by---
facilitating and encouraging open,   honest, and  fearless
communication.   Integrity is impossible in the absence of
open, honest, and fearless communication.

     The essence of healthy sexuality is open, honest, and
fearless   communication.    Healthy  sexuality   promotes
integrity---and an  effort to  promote  integrity promotes
healthy sexuality.  An effort to promote sexual conformity
undermines integrity---and healthy sexuality---and  on the
other  hand,   healthy  sexuality  undermines  efforts  to
promote sexual conformity.

                                                                                                                               
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