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==82:1. THE MATING INSTINCT==

==82:1. THE MATING INSTINCT==

82:1.1 Notwithstanding the [[personality]] [[Difference|gulf]] between [[men]] and [[women]], the [[sex]] urge is [[sufficient]] to insure their coming [[together]] for the [[reproduction]] of the [[species]]. This [[instinct]] operated [[effectively]] long before [[humans]] [[experienced]] much of what was later called [[love]], [[devotion]], and marital [[loyalty]]. [[Mating]] is an [[innate]] [[propensity]], and marriage is its [[evolutionary]] [[social]] [[repercussion]].

82:1.1 Notwithstanding the [[personality]] [[Difference|gulf]] between [[men]] and [[women]], the [[sex]] urge is sufficient to insure their coming [[together]] for the [[reproduction]] of the [[species]]. This [[instinct]] operated [[effectively]] long before [[humans]] [[experienced]] much of what was later called [[love]], [[devotion]], and marital [[loyalty]]. [[Mating]] is an [[innate]] [[propensity]], and marriage is its [[evolutionary]] [[social]] [[repercussion]].

82:1.2 [[Sex]] interest and [[desire]] were not [[dominating]] [[passions]] in [[primitive]] peoples; they simply took them for granted. The entire [[reproductive]] [[experience]] was free from [[imaginative]] embellishment. The all-absorbing [[sex]] [[passion]] of the more highly civilized peoples is chiefly due to [[Amalgamation|race mixtures]], especially where the [[evolutionary]] [[nature]] has been [[stimulated]] by the [[associative]] [[imagination]] and [[beauty]] [[appreciation]] of the [[Nodites]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites]. But this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[inheritance]] was [[absorbed]] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary races] in such [[limited]] amounts as to fail to provide [[sufficient]] [[self]]-[[control]] for the [[animal]] [[passions]] thus quickened and aroused by the [[endowment]] of keener [[sex]] [[consciousness]] and stronger [[mating]] urges. Of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA evolutionary races], the red man had the highest [[sex]] [[Mores|code]].

82:1.2 [[Sex]] interest and [[desire]] were not [[dominating]] [[passions]] in [[primitive]] peoples; they simply took them for granted. The entire [[reproductive]] [[experience]] was free from [[imaginative]] embellishment. The all-absorbing [[sex]] [[passion]] of the more highly civilized peoples is chiefly due to [[Amalgamation|race mixtures]], especially where the [[evolutionary]] [[nature]] has been [[stimulated]] by the [[associative]] [[imagination]] and [[beauty]] [[appreciation]] of the [[Nodites]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites]. But this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[inheritance]] was [[absorbed]] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary races] in such [[limited]] amounts as to fail to provide sufficient [[self]]-[[control]] for the [[animal]] [[passions]] thus quickened and aroused by the [[endowment]] of keener [[sex]] [[consciousness]] and stronger [[mating]] urges. Of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA evolutionary races], the red man had the highest [[sex]] [[Mores|code]].

82:1.3 The [[regulation]] of [[sex]] in [[relation]] to marriage indicates:

82:1.3 The [[regulation]] of [[sex]] in [[relation]] to marriage indicates:

82:1.8 As an [[institution]], [[marriage]], from its early beginnings down to [[modern]] times, pictures the [[social]] [[evolution]] of the [[biologic]] propensity for [[self]]-[[perpetuation]]. The [[perpetuation]] of the evolving [[human]] [[species]] is made certain by the [[presence]] of this racial [[mating]] [[impulse]], an urge which is loosely called [[sex]] [[attraction]]. This great [[biologic]] urge becomes the impulse hub for all sorts of [[associated]] [[instincts]], [[emotions]], and usages—[[physical]], [[intellectual]], [[moral]], and [[social]].

82:1.8 As an [[institution]], [[marriage]], from its early beginnings down to [[modern]] times, pictures the [[social]] [[evolution]] of the [[biologic]] propensity for [[self]]-[[perpetuation]]. The [[perpetuation]] of the evolving [[human]] [[species]] is made certain by the [[presence]] of this racial [[mating]] [[impulse]], an urge which is loosely called [[sex]] [[attraction]]. This great [[biologic]] urge becomes the impulse hub for all sorts of [[associated]] [[instincts]], [[emotions]], and usages—[[physical]], [[intellectual]], [[moral]], and [[social]].

82:1.9 With the [[savage]], the [[food]] supply was the impelling [[motivation]], but when [[civilization]] insures plentiful food, the [[sex]] urge many times becomes a [[dominant]] impulse and therefore ever stands in need of [[social]] [[regulation]]. In [[animals]], [[instinctive]] [[periodicity]] checks the [[mating]] [[propensity]], but since man is so largely a [[self]]-[[control]]led [[being]], [[sex]] [[desire]] is not altogether periodic; therefore does it become [[necessary]] for [[society]] to impose self-control upon the [[individual]].

82:1.9 With the [[savage]], the [[food]] supply was the impelling [[motivation]], but when [[civilization]] insures plentiful food, the [[sex]] urge many times becomes a [[dominant]] impulse and therefore ever stands in need of [[social]] [[regulation]]. In [[animals]], [[instinctive]] periodicity checks the [[mating]] [[propensity]], but since man is so largely a [[self]]-[[control]]led [[being]], [[sex]] [[desire]] is not altogether periodic; therefore does it become [[necessary]] for [[society]] to impose self-control upon the [[individual]].

82:1.10 No [[human]] [[emotion]] or impulse, when unbridled and overindulged, can produce so much [[harm]] and [[sorrow]] as this powerful [[sex]] urge. [[Intelligent]] submission of this impulse to the [[regulations]] of [[society]] is the supreme test of the [[actuality]] of any [[civilization]]. Self-control, more and more self-control, is the ever-increasing demand of advancing [[mankind]]. [[Secrecy]], insincerity, and [[hypocrisy]] may obscure sex [[problems]], but they do not provide solutions, nor do they advance [[ethics]].

82:1.10 No [[human]] [[emotion]] or impulse, when unbridled and overindulged, can produce so much [[harm]] and [[sorrow]] as this powerful [[sex]] urge. [[Intelligent]] submission of this impulse to the [[regulations]] of [[society]] is the supreme test of the [[actuality]] of any [[civilization]]. Self-control, more and more self-control, is the ever-increasing demand of advancing [[mankind]]. [[Secrecy]], insincerity, and [[hypocrisy]] may obscure sex [[problems]], but they do not provide solutions, nor do they advance [[ethics]].