Defining Sexual Integrity Author: Geoffrey Bullock Sexual integrity is the result of fitting together all the components of a person's sexual drive for the just purposes and ends to which it is designed, and into the whole of a person's humanity: It includes: * recognising that our sexuality is part of our greater humanity. * recognising that our sexuality is expressive of our total personhood, like the other facets of human personality: emotions, intellect, will, morality, spirituality, language. * recognising that sexual self-expression for its own sake treats people as objects, prevents intimacy, destroys community, feeds narcissism, and creates loneliness. * recognising that sexuality finds its fulfilment in the life-time commitment of a man and a woman to each other, for mutual enjoyment and the procreation of children, and the creation of family. * recognising that, because the sex drive is a powerful force, it can be misused if not controlled. * recognising that self-control is a part of sexual integrity, and that such restraint of the sex drive need not be psychologically unhealthy. Geoffrey Bullock email: fe36681@bigpond.net.au