Not since The Wolf’s Cry have I been motivated to write anything about the subject of love and corporeal delights. This time the subject is infidelity. Infidelity is one of the few remaining sins that have a seemingly universal condemnation factor in the court of public opinion. The unwritten law expressed implicitly in every conjugal relationship is exclusivity. Judging by how often this decretum is broken whether there is a legal contract in place or not makes me think that monogamy is futile. For some fidelity is never a question in their relationship but for most of the population some of whom can’t stay on a diet, stick to a exercise regimen or remember to take their prescription medicine daily fidelity is as hopeless as never breaking the 10 commandments.
The energy of sex has many dimensions. Simply put intercourse and its many variations do not necessarily carry the same weight as the emotion of love does. There are many that will insist however that it does. Some actually believe that the God given act of love does not mean that love is essential to a physical union of and for the sake of this piece a man and a woman. Conventional wisdom says that penetration carries just as much gravity as the theory of continuance in that once consummated outside of “the relationship” the disdain becomes The Seventh Sin.
A fervent Act of Contrition or even the Sacrament of Penance does not remove the Seventh Sin. The clergy may grant absolution for the perpetrators but the hostility and betrayal are not only held in perpetuity but forgiveness is the one act of charity that is withheld. The wounded are excused from any part as the proximating cause of The Seventh Sin but that’s because the floodlights of attention are on those that are found in flagrante delicto. The Seventh Sin or the acts of infidelity for those victims of love are bloodstained forever and The Scarlet Letter lives on with The Seventh Sin.
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