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Personally, I feel more identified with the liberal approach to sexual morality. In the first place, I feel that sex is an exercise in union with another, where the end is set precisely in that union and in the pleasure that it involves, and not in a goal such as procreation. It seems to me that thinking of the sexual act as purely a means to procreate is retrograde and superficial and doesn’t allow the individual to be open to exploring their body, their sensations, or to be aware of the person with whom this moment is shared.

 

Of course, sex, being the source of life, can have procreation as an objective in particular circumstances where both parties wish it, but this for me should be a secondary objective. In general terms, I think of sexuality as an encounter that seeks pleasure, and connection with both my own body and that of the person with whom I share.

 

In this sense, it could be said that I have within my conception and personal management of my sexual life, some conventional elements. Since I don’t deny the energetic part that involves sexuality and I consider that the creative energy or life energy (the same with the that a baby is created) is a fundamental part in the creation of our own reality, our spiritual well-being, our integrity, and our self-respect, triggering this, in a conception of the body as a sacred place, which can be contaminated by bad habits.

 

However, by bad habits I do not refer to practices such as masturbation, or homosexual sex or sex outside of marriage, but to certain practices, thoughts, and fantasies, which separate the body from the being, distancing us from respect and devaluing the deepest aspect of sexuality.

 

I believe that the relationship that each one has with their body and mind can vary and its precisely this what makes it more complex to determine the morality that exists in the sexuality of each person. For me, what determines the virtue or vice in an action, goes beyond the action itself, it is rather the energy with which that action is carried out, and it would be necessary to analyze if it comes from integration, from the respect, from love or if, on the contrary, it is born from perversion, humiliation, abuse or the power exercised over another.

 

I believe in the freedom that each person has to handle their sexuality in the way they please and their heart dictates as long as there is that mutual respect and consent. I am against the ideas that consider natural acts such as homosexuality or masturbation as deviant, because for me, sexuality is much broader and involves many more things than the propagation of the species or dogmatic conditioning. And just as I choose to live my sexuality in one way, I respect the different ways of thinking as long as they are practiced from consciousness and love towards life, the body, and the spirit, both of oneself and of the other.