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 %CONTEXT SEXUAL DISEASE DISINTEGRATE VIOLENCE RAPE 900809

     The  nature of sexual expressions,  behavior and life
in   a  community  depends  upon  the  context  which  the
community provides for the expression of human  sexuality.
Human   sexuality  will  always  find  some  avenues   for
expression.    The  context  provided  by  each  community
strongly  influences the forms of expression  which  human
sexuality finds through which to gain expression.

     Often  the communal context inhibits open and  honest
expression  of human sexual desires.  Such a context often
leads to dishonest covert expressions of human  sexuality,
which  tend towards the violence of sexual discrimination,
abuse and rape.

     In  a  community  which has become addictive  in  its
attitudes  and  behaviors,  it is natural  that  sexuality
becomes  another  focus  for  efforts  to  find  and   use
addictive  fixes.   In such a context there  are  intimate
connections  between  unhealthy  sexuality  and  all   the
different   manifestations  of  addictive  attitudes   and
behaviors such as are explored by Charlotte Davis Kasal in
her book "Women, Sex and Addiction".

     In a community which is compulsively preoccupied with
rules  of  propriety,   conformity,   morality,    ethics,
legalism,  and objectivity---the efforts to control  human
sexuality are bound to be frustrated;  and members of  the
community are bound to be sexually frustrated and so prone
to be ill-at-ease,  dis-eased, sick,  and be dis-connected
from  each  other  through alienative attempts  to  be  in
control of sexuality,  and to control those attempts to be
in control.

     The  context  which  a  community  provides  for  the
expressions  of human sexuality depends greatly  upon  the
attitudes,  concepts, language,  beliefs and rituals which
are  central  in the ways which members of  the  community
view their physical bodies, communications, expressions of
physical  affection,   limitations,  finitude,   mistakes,
ideals, values and imperfections. The less integrity there
is in these contextual elements,  the less integrity there
is bound to be in the ways which human sexuality finds  to
express itself; and vice versa.

     In  the  absence of an integrative  context  for  the
expression   of  human  sexuality  there  are   persistent
difficulties experienced with regard to:

1.  Sex education
2.  Pornography and standards of decency
3.  Sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS
4.  Pre-marital sexuality and adolescent parents
5.  Unwed mothers and children without fathers
6.  Prostitution
7.  Abortions
8.  Rape and incest
9.  Sexual discrimination
     10.  Birth control & population growth
     11.  Death control & associated costs
     12.  Child care & and stunted growth
     13.  Dishonesty about sexuality
     14.  Dishonesty in sexually related addictions
     15.  Disintegration of family life and values
     16.  Un-conventional sexual life-styles.

     Dishonesty  about  all  these difficulties  does  not
serve to provide a healthy context in which to resolve the
difficulties and the conflicts attendant to them.  All the
difficulties  and conflicts are intricately  inter-related
and  it  is  essential to be honest about all  the  inter-
connections that exist between them, and about the changes
in  our traditional attitudes values and ideals which must
occur before we can cope with integrity.

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