Steve nodded, and smiled. He looked at everybody as if he was addressing a university class. "You told me about your high and noble goal that you have formulated, which is to raise the concept of human sexuality to such a high image that it coincides with the Apostle John's vision of the 'woman' of the Apocalypse, clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve starts, the stars of rejoicing. You will never get there for as long as the human sexuality remains imprisoned in the small domain. I can guarantee that."

      Steve turned to everybody. "When Pete couldn't respond to Helen," he said, "as she had bid him to do, he failed for the simple reason that he had believed the inhibition to be caused by the boundaries of society's small marriage concept. So I must ask you to consider your answer carefully, was the small marriage concept really the factor that had caused Pete's inhibition? Or was it the narrow identification of sex that had caused the inhibition? Remember, Peter had shown absolutely no inhibition to sharing a meal with Helen late at night in her apartment, and also a drink, but when it came to sexual sharing the barriers arose as if the sexual aspect of our humanity lay outside of the human dimension."

      Steve urged caution here, because, as he said, "this gets interesting. He have a phenomenon here," said Steve, "that has actually nothing to do with sex. Peter would agree that he would have had no inhibition if he had been single. He would also agree that he had already stepped beyond the small marriage concept with Helen's guidance in regard to most matters of our common humanity, even sex. Remember, Pete had loved seeing Helen in her thin nightgown and had enjoyed many similar sexual aspects. All of that seemed all right. It was all allowed in response to being human. Then came the bed, and the barrier went up. Helen asked, 'Am I not a woman?' No, that wasn't the reason. Then Helen asked, 'Have you never been with a woman before?' Obviously, that wasn't the reason either. So, what reason is there left. Pete had stated right at the beginning that he loved to be with her in bed, that he had dreamed about such a chance. So, why didn't he? Well he couldn't, because of contractual arrangements. With the marriage contract sex has become privatized. It has literally been taken out of the universal domain of the lateral lattice that represents the reality of out being. Peter couldn't respond to a very human situation, because sex had been taken out of it by a contractual commitment that was never stated, but is assumed to become a part of the property mythology of the marriage shere. That's the old Hobbesian platform where love is given only the tiniest bit of space. In this tiny sphere sex had been privatized. Pete couldn't violate the property rights. Eventually he did respond to Helen, but not for the right reasons. If he had been aware of the privatization factor, which Pete would have invalidated instantly, he would have been able to respond to Helen naturally without the slightest hesitation according the manner of his fondest dreams."

      Steve paused, as if searching for the next step. "That property rights thing," he said moments later, "had not been overcome the night that Pete spent with Helen. When I talked with him a couple of days later, he kept referring to this very point, again and again, without realizing that he did, even while his wedding ring did no longer symbolize to him the small and tightly confined structure that surrounds two people and isolates them from the universal lattice of our humanity. I found his duality puzzling then. Of course I didn't recognize the reason then. Now I would find it alarming. We all should."

      Steve pointed out that the privatization of sex might have been the first act of privatization in history, which now has become an epidemic that is destroying the world. He told us that whenever he hears the word private, or private property, or privatization, he remembers my experience with Helen. He said that Helen told him that she felt impelled to present her concept of the lateral lattice to me, which she understood as a matter of principle. She didn't however, go as far as to present it as a paradox to the 'small' wedding ring. Steve told us that when he hears any words related to privatization he sees a process in his mind that takes a bit of the human dimension out of its infinite sphere, into the small, which thereby makes it irrelevant to the human dimension. The lateral lattice becomes thereby denied. It suffers a deeply intrusive act of 'theft.' Society suffers that theft at the 'hands' of a false theology that isolates humanity more and more from the reality of its being. He pointed out that this theft destroys civilization more powerfully than any weapon ever created.

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