'What concerns me most in the present prevalent freedom - no, not freedom, license, which is a very different thing - about the act of sex, is blunting the particular. If bedding becomes a series of one night stands, it becomes a general thing-in-itself, instead of a very particular act between two particular, unique, irreproducible, irreplaceable persons. When it becomes a thing-in-itself, it is reduced to the de-personalising realm of the general..'
Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet, p.169.
