This is http://www.essayz.com/a9711051.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.} ========================================================== %CHALLENGE MANAGE SEXUAL ASPECTS PERSONAL RELATION+971105 %EITHER/OR SPECTRUM POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES HONESTY+971105 %CONFLICT RESOLUTION PRIORITY SETTING PROCEDURES 971105 One of the important challenges of real living is to prudently manage the sexual aspects of personal relationships. The following are suggestive of the various strategies which are used in efforts to manage the sexual aspects of personal relationships: 1. Being honest about perceptions and emotions 2. Being dis-honest about perceptions and emotions 3. Strict discipline and self-control 4. Strict discipline and control of others 5. Education 6. Seduction 7. Reductionism 8. Rationalism 9. Spirituality 10. Purity 11. Distance 12. Insensitivity 13. Hypersensitivity 14. Tolerance 15. Intolerance 16. Maintaining standards 17. Judgementalism 18. Condemnations 19. Advice 20. Descriptions 21. Prescriptions 22. Proscriptions 23. Taboos 24. Balance 25. Extremism 26. Cooperation 27. Preoccupation with issues of control 28. Scriptural interpretations 29. Codes of law 30. Exposure 31. Disclosure 32. Revelations 33. Confessions 34. Formalities 35. Rituals 36. Traditions 37. Families 38. Harems 39. Pimps 40. Brothels 41. Celibacy 42. Virginity 43. Drugs 44. Surgery 45. Limited intimacy 46. Indiscriminate intimacy 47. Open Marriages 48. Closed Marriages 49. Ad-seriatem Marriages 50. Polyandry 51. Polygamy 52. Polygyny 53. Monogamy 54. Romance 55. Arranged Marriages 56. Secret Marriages 57. Public Marriages 58. Common Law Marriages 59. Failed Marriages 60. Divorce 61. Masturbation 62. Copulation 63. Fantasies 64. Repression 65. Suppression 66. Interdependency 67. Codependency 68. Cooperation 69. Dependency 70. Erotica 71. Pornography The large number of words and phrases which are used to point to the variety of ways in which people try to manage the sexual aspects of human relationships --- is suggestive that the sexual aspects of human relationships are very important. The controversies which rage over the use of many of the strategies further indicate that the management of the sexual aspects of human relationships is very important. It is tragic that there are few generally agreed upon principles in terms of which to recognize: which ways of managing the sexual aspects of human relationships merit full respect and support; and which are usually associated with personal and communal disintegration. All too often, the management of the sexual aspects of human relationships is dominated by "either/or" thinking and behaviors; rather than by realistic ways of setting priorities among a spectrum of possible alternatives. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in Download it! (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================