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Archive-title: Definitions of Sex
Adler: The task of human parents is to enhance the spiritual
life of the next generation by planting the seed of spirit in
their own child.
Al-Tirmidhi: Man is humble only when the flaming fire of desires
has become extinct. Al-Tirmidhi
Aristotle: Desire is accompanied by pain.
Avoid the inclination to animalistic pleasure, for it
stains the soul. Do not yield to the desire for sexual
intercourse. What glory is in following the actions of animals?
Sexual intercourse involves the destruction of our bodies, the
shortening of life.
Thomas Aquinas: Plato based his moral system upon the
distinction between the bodily or sensual and the spiritual part
of our nature.
Marcus Aurelius: In the degree in which a man’s mind is nearer to
freedom from all passion, in that degree also it is nearer to
strength.
Besant: Only when pleasures have been banished, then there comes
upon us a boundless joy that is firm and unalterable.
Jacob Boehme: Lust is an abomination, whether it be in the state
of wedlock or out of it. Marriage based on lust is as immoral as
free love.
Buddha: Freedom from lust; this truly is the highest happiness.
Cut down the whole forest of lust! When you have cut
down every tree and every shrub, then you will be free! Buddha I
proclaim the annihilation of lust. I teach not the extinction of
everything, but the extinction of lust. One need not have his
mortal body die to avoid the clutches of concupiscence.
Edward Carpenter: Sex today is slimed over with the thought of
pleasure.
Cervantes: Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
Clement of Alexandria: The mortal shall put on immortality when
trained to everlasting chastity.
…End of the part1. To be continued..