This is http://www.essayz.com/b0710213.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.} ========================================================== %RECOGNIZE AVOID ALIENATIVE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES EVIL 071021 %RELATIONSHIPS PEOPLE ALIENS ENEMIES DISTRIBUTIVE 071021 %JUSTICE MUTUAL BALANCE SATISFACTION PLEASURES GOOD 071021 %INDIVIDUALS APPROVED CONFORMED PRESCRIPTIONS DEVIL 071021 %SPIRITS TRUE LOVERS UNAUTHORIZED INTIMACIES COURTS 071021 %PROPER INTOLERANCE EXCLUSIVE CLUBS CHURCHES HOUSES 071021 How can we Recognize-And-Avoid sexual experiences which are not good for us? The following are some suggested useful considerations: 1. Is alienation generated? At what costs to whom? Because of what aspects of the sexual relationships? 2. Are participants well informed about sexually transmitted diseases and the diseases' costs to victims of them? 3. Is there violence, coercion, pain, injury or any form of unilateral action involved? At what costs to whom? 4. Do those involved and/or affected have well-balanced amounts of wealth, power, education, influence, experience, general-maturity, etc? 5. Are those involved well-informed about the risks of imprudent and unwise sexual-bonding; and what may be the costs to participants in imprudent and unwise sexual- bonding? 6. Are those involved well-informed about the risks of the WIDE-VARIETY of FORMS-of-ADDICTION to EACH and/or to Combinations-of-the-Following: Drugs, Codependent- Supporters, Particular-Persons, Particular-Kinds-of- Persons, Intimate-Relationships, Being-Dependent, Being- Independent, Being-Victimized, Being-Vulnerable, Being- Invulnerable, Heroes, Rich-People, Powerful-People, Influential-People, Beautiful-People, Sexy-People, etc. See the web page Bibliography and look for references to ADDICTION.? 7. Are those involved well-aware of how extensive can be the network of inter-dependent reflexive-relationships which cannot be fully controlled by the participants in sexual-relationships of all of the various kinds? 8. Are those involved well-aware of the Many-Ways in which Domineering-People are likely to use and abuse SEXUAL: instincts, desires, pleasures, bonding, visions, dreams, hopes, aspirations, fears, ignorance, suggestions, innuendoes, flirtation, etc? 9. Are those involved Well-Educated and Well-Trained in how to respond in Healthy-Ways to Un-Healthy Alienative- Behaviors which have Sexual-Overtones --- so as to Mitigate-those-Un-Healthy and Alienative-Behaviors; reducing how pervasive they are in their communities? 10. Do those involved have ready access to True- Sanctuaries in which they will be able to be Safely- Vulnerable to participate in Healthy, Open, and Honest DIALOGUE about their own Intimate-and-Sexual Experiences of all kinds? 11. How Well-Aware are those involved about the costs to Personal-and-Communal-Integrities of the various Inter- Related-Forms of Greedy-Profiteering through: Prostitution, Pornography, Rape, Addictions, Codependent- Support-Networks, Managed-Ignorance, Self-Righteousness, Arrogance, Domination, Violence, Prescriptions, Proscriptions, Taboos, etc? 12. What important considerations/suggestions are missing in the above? Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================