Reuniting - January 2009 Newsletter

Pair-Bonding: A Strength and A Weakness

As we’ve seen in earlier articles, neurochemical urges motivate mammals to eat, drink and have sex. Specifically, dopamine surges send them after the things that further their survival—or at least the survival of their genes.

But what about the handful of mammalian species who have evolved to team up in order to do a better job of raising their young? They may get all the food, water and sex they want, and still feel that something is missing—until they are mated. ...

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Have A Laugh at the Gender Gap

Letters from the Trenches

An Intriguing Compromise

... Late last year we decided to have orgasms on the first of every month and on some special occasions. Now we are in our third month of squirtless loving, "because we do not want to ruin a good thing. " It takes time and experimentation. ...

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REUNITING News

The new title Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age, edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan, includes an interview with Marnia by Adam Elenbaas.

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Christianity and the Subintroductae

During the first several hundred years of Christianity, women often lived with men in sacred relationships, not devoted to procreation. (The Church then banned the practice.)

Although the practice is assumed not to have involved intercourse, it may be indirectly related to the Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber, which apparently called for a lust-free intercourse. Hopefully, scholars will someday investigate the possible links between the two practices, and whether sacred union was, indeed, at the heart of early Christianity. Meanwhile, here are two scholars' observations about this early mystery.

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