Embracing disruptive coherence: coming out as erotic ethical practice

Abstract

not surveyed.) And even in the highest-scoring group, only 49% of men and 32% of women said sex was of great importance in their lives. Jung attributes sexual dissatisfaction mostly to a lamentable lack of sexual drive and interest that can and should be nurtured (Chapter 7)— true enough. But a darker side is sex as a vehicle of unjust control and power. Jung writes eloquently of Christ’s glorified body—hope for us mere and suffering mortals! Her vision comports well with the stories of Jesus’ Transfiguration, found in the synoptic gospels and 2 Peter. The resurrection accounts, though, are more ambiguous. In John 20, the risen Jesus is known most particularly and conclusively by his wounds. What of the wounded, human sexual body? Sex on Earth As It Is in Heaven presents us with a brilliant pinnacle of transformative expectation. Yet it might be in redeeming contrast to, rather than a celebratory continuation of, “sex on earth” as experienced by most people. And sexual-relational wounds may have eschatological significance too.