#531: Innocence and the Gift of the Body (TOB #17)

Becoming masculine and feminine.

Masculinity and femininity are both discovered and realized through reciprocal self-giving; the full meaning of the male body is inextricable from the presence of the female, and vice versa. The innocence of the male-female union, then, can only be understood within a bilateral context: a male alone on an island, who has never encountered a woman, is no…