07-11-2017, 12:17 PM
I think it's important to distinguish social norms from spiritual principles. None of us achieve our highest potential as humans, and yet we are still all worthy of dignity and respect. Similarly, vanishingly few couples, homosexual, heterosexual, or otherwise, achieve optimal energy transfer in the act of sex. That has nothing to do with the validity of those experiences in and of themselves. So to me it seems like if we're going to talk about ideals of spiritual energy, it's important to depersonalize it and depoliticize it.
Those of Ra describe homosexuality as a "sexual impairment". I have heard it argued that this impairment lies in the two bodies' incapacity for a perfect, ideal, maximal sexual energy transfer. That has nothing to do with the justice or dignity of the coupling. It likewise doesn't mean that heterosexual couples necessarily achieve maximal transfer simply by virtue of being of opposite sexes. It is merely an acknowledgement that anatomy is a factor among many in sex, and that when it is lacking it inhibits the full potential of energy exchange from being realized.
To me it's not an important issue how to achieve perfect sexual exchange in the first place; we're all muddling through this. But I think it is interesting to contemplate the body's role, especially in light of Ra's comments about "impairment", which at first seem sort of pejorative.
Those of Ra describe homosexuality as a "sexual impairment". I have heard it argued that this impairment lies in the two bodies' incapacity for a perfect, ideal, maximal sexual energy transfer. That has nothing to do with the justice or dignity of the coupling. It likewise doesn't mean that heterosexual couples necessarily achieve maximal transfer simply by virtue of being of opposite sexes. It is merely an acknowledgement that anatomy is a factor among many in sex, and that when it is lacking it inhibits the full potential of energy exchange from being realized.
To me it's not an important issue how to achieve perfect sexual exchange in the first place; we're all muddling through this. But I think it is interesting to contemplate the body's role, especially in light of Ra's comments about "impairment", which at first seem sort of pejorative.