Satyr wrote:..............Any union requires a loss of individuality or a suppression of self.
The willingness and the need to unite are proportional to the individual’s sense of self-worth and character.............
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hmmm, i guess we are diametrically opposed here.........
biology on this planet is an unwilling experiment, in which we are all parts, and participants; theoretically, if you go far enough back, we are all one.
And, to simplify, keeping it confined to the human species, there is nothing as empoweringly demonstrative of our social 'union', and collective commitment to the 'experiment', as the total loss of ourselves in the passion of expressing this sexually!
[nothing says "we are one!" more powerfully than losing oneself in another]