THE MEANING OF SEX

'...we need to turn Freud on his head. Instead of thinking of "God" language as really being about sex (Freud's reductive ploy), we need to understand sex as really about God, and about the deep desire that we feel for God - the precious clue that is woven into our existence about the final and ultimate union that we seek.' 

Sarah Coakley, The New Asceticism, p.96. 

CHASTITY

'...the reflective, faithful celibate and the reflective, faithful married person may have more in common - by way of prayerful surrendering of inevitably thwarted desire to God - than the unreflective or faithless celibate, or the carelessly happy, or indeed unhappily careless, married person.' 

Sarah Coakley, The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God, p.39.