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        %STEPPING INTO SEXUAL INTIMACY & RESPONSIVE 870316

Every  community,   intellectual  system,   body  of
religious teachings,  family of individuals,  etc.  offers
implicit  and/or explicit guidance regarding when to  step
or  not step into sexual intimacy and responsiveness  with
other people; in reality and/or in fantasy.  Too rarely is
such guidance fully integrative in its consequences.   Too
often   guidance  fails  to  integrate  intellectual   and
affective lives,  personal and communal living,  religious
and scientific understandings,  political and private need
fulfillment, economic and resource management; etc.

     In  most communities guidance regarding when to  step
or not step into greater intimacy and responsiveness  with
other people is both implicit and vague.  It is rarely the
topic of open and honest personal  conversation based upon
personal experience, testimony and confession.  It is more
often  characterized  by  dogmatic  theory  divorced  from
testimony of personal experiences;  so the theory does not
speak   directly  and  authentically  to  the  real   life
situations  as  experienced  by  real  people  in   honest
dialogue.    The guidance which  is offered is thus  often
very   misleading,   leading  as  often  as  not  to   the
disintegration   of  human  lives---even  as  people  seek
relevant  and  informed guidance on how to enjoy  communal
fulfillment   of   sexual  instincts  to   advance   human
integration and growth.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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