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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 4900084" data-attributes="member: 59082">That was not my intention--I think you are solidifying what I said a bit to much. I addressed this in my response to Umbran, but it is also worth noting that the Fall--as I said--isn't only from Genesis but from numerous traditions around the world. Actually, the myth of the Fall from some Golden Age is about as universal a myth as there is. It isn't only about puberty, but puberty is a type of fall, a kind of "emanation", if you will.Another way to look at what I am pointing at is that we "fall out of" one worldview (or experience of life) and into another. This is often developmental but can also be more of a horizontal movement from one belief system to another. But From birth until at least one's early-to-mid 20s our worldview and experience of life "evolves," it changes in a developmental manner. Newborns literally fall out of the womb; there is anothe major "fall" around 7-10 months old, when an infant becomes particularly strongly bonded to one individual (usually the mother, but not always) and experiences stranger anxiety. And so forth.Sure, and I don't think that is weird at all (imaginative, yes <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). I would argue that sexuality exists even from early on in some form or another, with various stages of activity and latency (Freud goes into this stuff ad nauseum; I don't agree with everything he said about it, but at the least he brought this forward). But puberty is a biological fact, and sexuality doesn't really "awaken" until puberty starts, at least not with such intensity. I would even say that there are possible later stages of sexuality beyond maturation that the vast majority of people never really dive into. It probably goes without saying that a lot of later issues around sexuality occur when parents, not knowing that there is such a thing as child sexuality, try to stifle it in their own children through shaming them. This is why many people, even into adulthood, feel guilty about masturbation. But there isn't an easy answer; we are always growing in our understanding of who we are, both as individuals and as humanity. At least one would hope!</blockquote>

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