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Catholic tradition describes this tendency to conceal sex as "modesty." It is a certain kind of shame. . . . Some kinds of shame are, in fact, a reaction against what is "disgraceful or ugly."

So sex in public is beautiful? I guess he hasn't been to the parking area outside of may Grateful Dead concerts. The drunks and drug addicts having sex on the ground in front of everyone -- naked, dirty, sloppy and high as a kite -- would do everyone a favor by trying to better follow the Catholic tradition of sexual modesty.

6 posted on 12/04/2015 6:06:25 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")

Xenophon of Athens in his Anabasis describes a barbarian people the 10,000 Greeks encountered (near Trebizond on the Black Sea) who customarily had sex in public. Xenophon says they were the most barbaric of all the people they encountered, and the ones furthest removed from Greek customs. This was 400 B.C.--no Judaeo-Christian influences on Xenophon.