This is http://www.essayz.com/a9102083.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SEXUAL EMOTIONAL AFFECTIVE DISHONESTY DISINTEGRATE 910208 In communities where honesty is not highly valued and encouraged, it is likely that there will be sexual dishonesty of a variety of forms where people pretend that: 1. Sexual desire is not present when it is. 2. Sexual desire is present when it is not. 3. Sexuality can be controlled when it can not. 4. Sexual behavior cannot be controlled when it can. 5. Emotions can be controlled when they cannot. 6. Emotions have been controlled when they have not. 7. Emotions have been experienced when they have not. 8. Emotions have not been experienced when they have. 9. Interest is present when it is not. 10. Interest is not present when it is. All such pretense is alienative and is evil. To be healthy we need to find ways to minimize occasions for such pretense, and to encourage honesty by providing secure contexts within which we may be vulnerable through emotional honesty which promotes personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================