In order to answer these questions we now need to explore issues that may shock some readers. This first is this.

THE POWER AND ATTRACTION OF FEMALE NAKEDNESS

Why are men so overwhelmingly attracted to, if not obsessed by, the sight of the naked female body - especially the sight of a woman's wide open legs and naked vulva? The male of the human species has, since the dawn of time, been utterly and completely intoxicated by and irresistibly attracted to the naked body of the female, and her naked vulvic cave in particular. The art, pottery, writing and storytelling (and of more recent years the photography) of every culture in history bears witness to this the deepest and most primal of all male longings.

The key question is why?

It is in the answer to this question that we begin to find the vital key to the above questions.

The mystery of 'sacred' testosterone

Quite obviously, at the level of natural bodily functions, the production of the hormone testosterone is a very significant factor. This hormone is of course the powerhouse of the male sex drive. Both genders have testosterone but men have on average fourteen times more than females. It is important to realise that God made men this way and that we can therefore validly call testosterone 'holy' or 'sacred', to be celebrated not despised. It follows that as a general principle this God-given hunger for female nakedness must be from God and that if used in the divinely prescribed manner has to be something that God not only approves of, but actually encourages and indeed celebrates!

This then raises another important question. Why is the naked female body, the sight of the breasts, and in particular the sight of the naked vulva (and its spread lips), the object of such desire for the male? Why not the same level of universal vast erotic hunger among males for the sight of a woman's chin or nose or knees? And why is the greatest male hunger of all to enter a woman with his penis in intercourse?

The lost secret of sex

The lost secret of sex is this. In the amazing wisdom of God the penis and the vulva are designed to be the outward physical extensions of our souls. They are nothing other than our souls expressed in flesh!

The hunger of the male to look on the wide open vulva is based on his primal hunger for the sanctuary and welcome that comes from soul-bonding with his special female. This very deepest of longings arises out of his own soul-knowing (and sadly, for most males, that knowing will never reach their conscious mind) that the mysterious power the vulva exerts over him arises because it is the 'sacred vestibule', the 'holy gateway' into a woman's soul, the place of greatest sanctuary and deepest welcome.

The vulva has rightly been called 'the grand entrance into the temple of the soul'. It has been designed by God not only to perform vital physical functions but powerful spiritual functions as well. This is entirely consistent with the 'seamless undivided body-soul' teaching of Genesis 2.7, where the body and soul were mysteriously woven into an undivided twoness, a concept that is more easily understood by our intuition than by our rational mind.