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               %SEXLESS PRAYER PRAYERLESS SEXUALITY 880509

     For   collusions  to  defend  themselves  they   must
alienate sex and prayer from each other,  for in prayerful
sexual  relationships collusions may be unmasked.  In  the
ecstasy   of  open  and honest  sexual  relationships  the
games  of mutual self deception may become naked realities
which  are  open  to  examination  and  loss  of  respect.

     Collusions  are  about pretensions which cannot    be
made  explicit,     cannot  be seen without clothing which
hides    the     reality.        In   prayerful     sexual
relationships   participants   seek  integrity  which   is
impossible   while playing   collusive   games  of  mutual
self   deception. Healthy sexual  desires  might undermine
the   collusions.  The  survival  of  collusions  requires
the   repression   of healthy sexual  desires,    and  the
replacement  of them  with disintegrative  desires   which
are consistent  with  the pretensions of the collusions.

     The  essence  of prayer is seeking both personal  and
communal   integrity.     The  essence  of  sexuality   is
integration of bodies  and souls in ways which create  and
provides   for  personal  and  communal  continuity   with
integrity.   Sexuality is related to personal finitude and
brings  together finite creatures to provide for  communal
continuity.

     Collusive  games  of mutual self  deception  seek  to
obscure   truths  which  the  players  do  not   want   to
acknowledge;     e.g.,    their  finitude and limitations.
Healthy   sexual  relationships   acknowledge   individual
finitude  and  so  undermine  all  collusions  which  seek
to   obscure   human  finitude and limitations.      Thus,
such  collusions regard  healthy sexual  relationships  as
threats   to  the  collusions'     survival   as   set  of
respected  beliefs.    For  collusions  to  survive  there
must be  a  separation  between  prayerful   relationships
and sexual relationships;   for when separated neither  is
powerful  enough     to    expose   the    naked    truths
about   the collusions.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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