'Sex is not a more or less irrelevant toy. It is a life-making technology; an intense form of interpersonal communication; a tool for joining together disparate human persons into one; a transcender of subjectivity. It is a work of art, full of symbol and purpose, created by the highest of all Artists, and then given to humanity as a gift, in order to allow us to participate in the transmission and creation of our own species. It is not a bit of biological flotsam to be disposed of how we will.
Many people - particularly the sex-experts - do not believe this. It doesn't matter. If you think that an atomic generator is a neat toy, and that all the people saying it requires proper "saefty precautions" are just party-poopers, you can expect to die of radiation poisoning sooner or later. It desn't matter if you can come up with a clever argument, or a really neat joke, or a radically new sexual position to express your feelings about the matter. Reality is hopelessly intractable; she will not bend herself out of shape to fit your paradigm or conform herself pleasantly to human delusions - even if it can be statistically proven that those delusions are shared by 90% of the American people.
This is why truth - particularly truth about humanity, sexuality, and the body - is necessary. These are things of which we are made, fundamental components of our human being. We ought to figure out what they are for. The alternative is to muck around until we are completely broken, and, for the sake of a quick thrill, reduce ourselves to rubble and human scrap.'
Melinda Selmys, Sexual Authenticity, p.93.
