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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8705063.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SEXUAL COGNITIVE DISSONANCE VS INTEGRITY 870506 Sexual and cognitive integrity can not be enjoyed in the absence of firm grounds for the integration of sexual and cognitive living. The absence of informed cognitive discussions of personal sexual experiences is an indication of the absence of a firm ground for the integration of sexual and cognitive lives. The existence of sexual taboos and related collusive games of mutual self deception is clear evidence of the lack of a firm ground for the integration of sexual and cognitive lives. On what basis are sexual desires and behaviors to be respected? Conformity to some exclusive life style? Exclusivity is essentially disintegrative and not worthy of respect. Conformity to some cognitive system taken to be ultimate? Such creations of man may be treated as idols, but they are not the grounds for integrity. All too often they are the grounds for mutual condemnation, rejection and alienation. Total freedom to be and do what desires demand? Such a notion inevitably leads to the powerful people becoming violent and so leads to the disintegrating the grounds for mutual respect and concern; and thus to the disintegration of whatever integrity healthy sexuality may motivate. The grounds for the integration of sexual and cognitive living must not be the grounds for the personal condemnation and rejection of people who have different sexual and cognitive experiences; for such grounds can not be the grounds for the integration of diverse people into an integrated community. Integrity and integration can not be grounded in absurdity! The grounds for the integration of sexual and cognitive living must be of such a character as to facilitate open and honest dialogue among people who have different sexual and cognitive experiences. It is a logically necessary condition to the enjoyment of the suggested integration. Codes of conduct which promote judgmental behaviors can not be the grounds for the integration of sexual and cognitive living. Systems of values which affirm exclusive points of view can not serve as the grounds for integration; for such systems themselves become the grounds for excluding persons who need to be integrated into the community for it to survive in a meaningful way. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================