The Importance of Sexuality

Dostoevsky said every man who is knocking on the door of a brothel is actually looking for God. Sexual intimacy is a sacred point, it's something even greater, something truly out of this world. In one sense we are never more God-like than in the act of sex. We make ourselves vulnerable, we risk, we give and receive in a simultaneous act. Quite literally we make one flesh out of two different persons experiencing for a brief time a unity like no other. Two independent beings open their inmost selves and experience not a lost but a gain. This most human act reveals something of the nature of reality"