maladies, all of which can have teratogenic^57 effects on the subtle mechanisms
that work together to form the child’s sexual ID card – beginning with
conception.
Human sexuality is the sum total of learned experience plus the naturally
assigned gender role and orientation in which no ‘choice’ is made on the part
of the individual. Its gender and sexual orientation is chosen for it by genetic
and hormonal imprinting on a body that is modified by degrees according to
the availability of androgen/estrogen hormones. It must be understood that
genetic gender assignment and the applied sexual orientation are not always
congruent, and even these can be segregated from the body’s independent
sexual response system. When these three components of a human’s
sexuality are in harmony, all is well and the natural norm is maintained.
However, anyone of these systems may be influenced by teratogens, the
psychosocial environment of the community, and/or by the
instruction/example of the parents themselves. If the influences are not
within the bounds of the natural taqua that proceeds from fitrah (common
sense), imbalance occurs along with a myriad of sexual inhibitions or deviant
behaviors over which the person has very little choice or control. These are
factors which make no allowance for clear moral responses until well into
mature adulthood. In other words, most sexually deviant manifestations are
forms of compulsive behaviors that are difficult-at-best and impossible-at-
worst to alter. Considering that even normal sexuality with its inherent
drives requires fierce restraint and discipline, this last statement should not
be difficult to understand.
Though certain religions, Satanists, Luciferians and Libertines may disagree,
the genuine civilized norm is to identify with and fully enjoy one’s entire
sexuality within the boundaries of the marital covenant. This is the only
norm that assures the responsible rearing of spiritually mature (sober)
humans while at the same time maintaining and nurturing the respite of
marital bliss. The key to maintenance of this ideal norm is trust.
When an infant emerges from the womb it immediately seeks to confirm the
virtue of trust in its caregivers in order to instinctively affirm, validate and
then incorporate trust as its own quality of soul. When the babe seeks this
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Teratogen: an agent or factor which causes malformation of an embryo. (Oxford Dict.)