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pagan state.

These people you call “pagans” have an enormous respect for life.

They know nothing of rape, and there are virtually no killings in their societies. Your society puts sex—a very natural, normal human function—under cover, then turns around and kills people right out in the open. That is the obscenity!

You’ve made sex so dirty, shameful, taboo, that you’re embarrassed to do it!

Nonsense. Most people simply have a different—they might even say a higher—sense of propriety about sex. They consider it a private interacting; for some, a sacred part of their relationship.

Lack of privacy does not equal lack of sanctity. Most of humanity’s most sacred rites are performed in public.

Do not confuse privacy with sanctity. Most of your worst actions are taken in private, and you save only your best behavior for public display.

This is not an argument for public sex; it is merely a noting that privacy does not necessarily equal sanctity—nor does publicity rob you of it.

As for propriety, that single word and the behavioral concept behind it have done more to inhibit men’s and women’s greatest joys than any other human construction—except the idea that God is punitive— which finished the job.

Apparently, you don’t believe in propriety.

The trouble with “propriety” is that someone has to set the standards.

This means, automatically, that your behaviors are being limited, directed, dictated by someone else’s idea of what should bring you joy.

In matters of sexuality—as in all other matters—this can be more 105