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(Long pause.) Since ancient times religion has tried to help man understand the nature of his own subjective reality — but religion has its own dark side, and for this reason religion unfortunately has fostered fear of the spontaneous.

These attitudes are intensified where the female sex is concerned. You have, of course, a strong drive toward sexuality, and if you believe that it is to be shunned at the same time, then you are in a very ambiguous position. Women with such beliefs and conflicts often wind up having hysterectomies, performed incidentally by male doctors, who hold the very same beliefs.

Many men look forward to having sons, while at the same time they revere marriage as a necessary part of respectable family life, and also feel that marriage is somehow degrading — particularly to a male — and that the sex act itself is only justified if it brings him an heir.

(4:34 p.m. Jane’s rather slow delivery had been interrupted three times by staff. I told her that the session was very good, as all of them have been in this recent series. She was pleased.

(The day was hot — over 80 degrees — and felt something like summer for the first time. Jane had felt better today. She ate well for lunch and supper, and turned easily. She is still on the Darvoset-aspirin regime, plus the calcium and the other extra vitamins — we don’t know what they are. Peggy Gallagher visited at about 6:40, so I got ready and left for the evening without Jane and I reading the prayer.)