This is http://www.essayz.com/a9410221.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.} ========================================================== %ADDICTIVE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS DISINTEGRATIVE SIN+941022 %ONLY IF EVIL FIXATION TECHNICAL PROBLEM DILEMMA 941022 Clearly addictive sexual relationships are alienative, involve estrangement, and therefore are evil relationships. It is not so easy to be sure that particular sexual relationships are healthy, integrative and worthy of respect if they are not clearly addictive. Addictive relationships are characterized by dishonesty, confusion, forgetfulness, technocratic manipulations, fixations, and attempts to achieve salvation on the basis of personal efforts and merit. Are sexual relationships which are not so characterized always healthy, integrative and worthy of respect? Are the human sexual relationships which are not worthy of respect and support always of such a character that it is appropriate to characterize them with the word "addictive"? If not, what kinds of sexual relationships which are not addictive are not healthy, integrative and worthy of respect---and what kinds of sexual relationships which are addictive: are healthy, integrative and worthy of respect? Open and honest dialogue about these questions and reports of personal experiences which might cast light upon these questions---will be helpful in resolving conflicts pertaining to human sexuality and how we may most wisely guide its development and expressions in our lives and communities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================