The Right To Choose To Think
(c) 2004
Sexuality is a fundamental part of being human and alive.
 It is powerful, even in its distortion it carves our lives
in the same way that flowing water engraves the planet.  As
we struggle to harness hydropower for its best use, so it is
with our sexuality (in the best cases).  This is not a
result of some philosophical hiatus it is the effect of
day-to-day choices.  So is it really so arduous to accept
that thinking humans should view their choices around sexuality
in a larger context?
Take honor for instance.  Honor and its sister Integrity are
issues normally presented as side dishes on the buffet of
religious dogma, untimely asides to the cornucopia associated
with sexual bliss.  I often wonder why this happens.  Am
I the only one who feels these issues are essential to an
individual really being attractive enough to be considered sexy?
 To me, this means going beyond the (dehumanizing)
objectification of persons towards (humanizing) evaluation, to
place