"Oh, are you?" I asked. "If that is the case why aren't you on the mountain top? You are sitting here at the beach, moping, because you can't handle the jungle."

      "And you can?" he said sarcastically.

      I shook my head. "That's just the problem, Tony. Nobody really can. That subject has been screwed up for ages."

      "You can say that again," Tony replied.

      "So, why don't you help us straighten this out?" I replied. "I'll give you four weeks."

      Tony began to laugh. "Four weeks isn't enough."

      "There you see, four weeks isn't anything," I replied. "But that's all we've got."

      "So where do we start, Pete?" said Tony quietly.

      "Where do we start? We start with the Lord of the Rings," I answered.

      Tony burst out laughing. "That has nothing to do with sex," he said.

      "No Tony, everything of it has to do with sex, from the beginning to the end," I said and began to laugh with him. "Sex is the main issue of the whole thing. Are you interested?"

      "That's not funny," said Tony. "You hold me for an idiot. I saw the movies, Pete. Sex is never mentioned."

      "That's what you think," I replied. "It starts with a ring of an evil power that has been forged in distant ages. The ring has become the doom of men, whose very existence has become corrupted. Even one of the wisest of mankind was turned by corruption, and turned into a master of beast-men. Does that sound familiar? Tolkien suggests that this ring must be destroyed, and he also suggests that it can only be destroyed in the chasms of the fire of Mt. Doom in which it was forged. That's what the saga is all about, isn't it?"

      Tony nodded.

      "As you know, it isn't easy to do that," I said.

      "You've got to be kidding. This has nothing to do with sex," said Tony and began to laugh, again.

      "Yes it has," I said, "and that's the issue. The issue of sex has divided the whole of humanity into two isolated camps on a platform that has no foundation. You can take this issue back in time until you get lost in the most distant ages. I don't think that anybody really knows where it began, but it has kept mankind in its spell ever since. Still, it has no foundation. Tolkien suggests that this kind of spell can't be broken unless you deal with the entire issue at its source. Anything else appears to be futile."

      "And how do you propose to do that?" Tony said sarcastically and laughed.

      "It shouldn't be hard," I said. "It can be done by looking at the truth."

      "And that is?" Tony cut me off.

      "The truth about sex is quite different than the way sex is regarded today and has been so for a long time."

      "There we go again," said Tony. "Peter the wizard."

      "Let me ask you something," I continued. "You graduated at Kingston University before you joined the Air Force, didn't you? You graduated in mechanical engineering, right. I suppose some of your fellow students graduated in other fields, like chemistry, biology, medical technology, applied mathematics, space technology, stuff like that. Let me put it to you that you all shared a common foundation. Ninety-eight percent of your education, and I say this of everyone who graduated with you, was the same. Even in your specialization at the end you embraced the same principles for discovery and scientific development. When you graduated, you all stepped away from that school as a group of professionals with essentially the same background, although with a bit of specialization at the end. It's the same with sex. The sexual specialization begins close to the end of the fetal development cycle. In other words, all the aspects of a human being, both male and female are fully present in each one of us. Its all there. Only in the final stages does the specialization begin that is related to a few specific functions. And even then, the specialization is very slight."

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