I've been having a friendly little go-round with a recent post from Wintery Knight Blog. My latest reply is to quote a passage from G.K. Chesterton's St. Francis of Assisi in which GKC offers some astute observations on the "innocence" of sex. GKC writes:
“What had happened to the human imagination, as a whole, was that the whole
world was coloured by dangerous and rapidly deteriorating passions; by natural
passions becoming unnatural passions. Thus the effect of treating sex as only
one innocent natural thing was that every other innocent natural thing became
soaked and sodden with sex. For sex cannot be admitted to a mere equality among
elementary emotions or experiences like eating and sleeping. The moment sex
ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant. There is something dangerous and
disproportionate in its place in human nature, for whatever reason; and it does
really need a special purification and dedication. The modern talk about sex
being free like any other sense, about the body being beautiful like any tree
or flower, is either a description of the Garden of Eden or a piece of
thoroughly bad psychology, of which the world grew weary two thousand years
ago.” (From ch. 2, “The World St. Francis Found")