Let's Talk About Sex

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN:
18 more days before Arnold Schwarzengger remembers to buy his son a gift in Jingle All The Way

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Angelina, how could you do this to me? According to the DJ on 97.1, Brad Pitt has officially adopted Angelina Jolie's two children. Their prenuptial agreement has already been settled and they are already preparing to be wed soon. I guess Mr. and Mrs. Smith are becoming Mr. and Mrs. Pitt.

It's strange why the current trend in marriage involves a prenuptial agreement wherein conditions are drawn out to soften the blow should the marital relationship fail to flourish and later disintegrate into a faint memory of an ex-partner. Although many reason that it is a practical thing to do, having a sense of foresight should the union not meet its expected bliss and turn sour, I beg to differ since rather than being too hung up on the potential downfalls and having a means of escape with compensation, why not simply deal with the issues at hand - know your partner, know why you love him and stick with the decision (fuck that till death do us part line, a prenuptial agreement completely voids that vow). If they truly love each other, then such an agreement should be discarded - consider the fact that one has already designed a fall back should there be complications in the marriage, that divorce would seem such a convenient way to deal with problems, rather than resolving it through understanding and compromise - where is the willingness to sacrifice when there is already a ready escape.

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Today is the last day of my Tuesday-Thursday classes for the term and more importantly, for the year 2005. The day proved to be tiring; I was practically late for all my classes. For Relstri I had to wait for the end of the class in order to be able to make up for the group recitations my teacher organized before I came in. The questions at hand were about sexuality and thus compared to my classmates who read the whole article our teacher handed out when the class begun without me, I just stupidly sketched on my notebook, waiting for my turn to be called.

When asked about human sexuality and whether it is merely a bodily function, I replied although not with these words but with these ideas: "Human sexuality defines a person's being, it is not limited to one's gender, nor does it pertain to lust -but more so, sexuality is a person's, regardless of age or sex, capacity to love and give love. Sex is not evil, in fact it is a gift from God, sharing his procreative powers with man. Sex is a union of two people for the higher cause of aiding God in the creation of mankind, without such a purpose, sex is simply lust. Lust on the other hand is evil, for it degrades the power of love, it demeans the creative gift of God, it belittles the sanctity of the union, for in lust one does not see the glory of the union, instead one only wants to satisfy a selfish desire, which is in no manner a neccesity in living. By acting upon lust, one does not exhibit any form of respect for one's partner, and thus completely destroys the august nature and symbolism which the sexual act is meant to represent. Sex is limited to married couples, particularly on the premise that sex must be an act of love, similarly that God created mankind because of love. Matrimony is sacred because it is the union between two people with the blessings of God, with a mission to continue fulfilling the project God had started in the creation of man. To love is to give one's complete being - body, mind and soul; therefore, it would be completely impossible give one's all should there be any other parties involved. Rape is a defilement on the beauty of sex, due to the fact that it is imposed against the will of the other - as mentioned earlier, without respect and purpose and love, such a union is blasphemous to God's gift, and to God himself who somehow represents such a divine act." Bow!