“There shall be no property in human flesh. The sex-instinct is one of the most deeply-seated expressions of the will; and it must not be restricted, either negatively by preventing its free function, or positively by insisting on its false function. What is more brutal than to stunt natural growth or to deform it? What is more absurd than to seek to interpret this holy instinct as a gross animal act, to separate it from the spiritual enthusiasm without which it is so stupid as not even to be satisfactory to the persons concerned?
The sexual act is a sacrament of Will. To profane it is the great offence. All true expression of it is lawful; all suppression or distortion is contrary to the Law of Liberty. To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.”
-Commentary to The Book of the Law I:41
I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Even between two people who feel like they're on the path to enlightenment, together in almost every nuance of spirituality, there's still issues to resolve. Hurt feelings, imbalances, defensiveness, control issues, insecurities... and we both hold the same philosophy, as reflected in the above quote. We both work through it every day, and speak actively against sexual constraint. We also both have our own sets of issues to work through. Even in paradise, there's still piles of shit to step in, once in awhile.
I'd sort of conjured a whole post about this, but it's late, and it sort of vaporized. Maybe that's a good sign.
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