People perhaps wiser than we have regarded sexual intercourse as an essential rite of initiation enabling them to accede to higher spiritual knowledge. The two principles of the male Shiva and female Shakti (embodying wisdom) merge in the couple and transcend their sexual embrace. (from Sacred Sexuality by A T Mann and Jane Lyle)

How could we have permitted the suppression of such delightful art? Our heritage, and the heritage of so many peoples and cultures, suppressed and destroyed by those blindly acting out of religious zeal. What remains must be protected from such vandalism.

       
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