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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: For above all, Sex, as representing through Childbirth the
life of the Race (or of the Tribe, or, if you like,
of Humanity at large) should be sacred and guarded from
merely selfish aims, and therefore to use it only for such
aims is indeed a desecration. And even if--as some maintain
and I think rightly[1]--sex is not MERELY for child-birth
and physical procreation, but for mutual vitalizing and
invigoration, it still subserves union and not egotism; and to
use it egotistically is to commit the sin of Separation indeed.
It is to cast away and corrupt the very bond of life and
fellowship. The ancient peoples at any rate threw an illumination
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