#18

1. The three "Originals" are "Original Innocence, Unity, and Nakedness." "Original Innocence," which is the man, "Hadam", being alone after God created him. He has no gender, and he seeks his identity and inner life. This is the ability to have relationships, and "it" is created in God's image. This is the freedom to give and receive God's gifts of love, but "it" has nobody to share them with. "Original Solitude" is when the "hadam" leaves his mom and pop, which is its decision for freedom. It clings, which shows a commitment-based relationship. Him and her become one body, which illustrates mutual self-gifts. "Original Nakedness" is the when the first people of the Earth felt no shame in being naked. They weren't embarrassed and felt that it was normal to be naked. This leads me to believe that they were comfortable with each other, and valued all life as the same.

2. The Song of Songs is a collection of wedding feast songs written for a husband and wife to sing to each other. Its attitude toward sexuality is that the married couple should engage in sex in order to feel truly loved by one another.

3. St. Paul says that the body is to be used for love, not for selfish enjoyment that implies no commitment to the other person, which means to do it for reproductive purposes when you are in love, not for pleasure.

4. I agree with the last section that says, "an energy that produces a cosmic...". The other parts I don't agree with because it says sexuality is how we connect to all things, and in the way we parent and work because I don't feel that sexuality connects us to animals or plants, and that we don't have sexuality while we parents or work. I would take out the first two sections and leave the definition as only the last part.