If Muslim fanatics expect to bleed America dry through endless wars they will get all the cooperation they need from our Federal Triune Dictatorship. And while some people believe Caesar Bush is the poster boy for their argument in favor of abortion and birth control, something his own parents might agree with, the whole issue of sex needs a sober analysis devoid of emotions and so-called “humor.” There is nothing funny about sex; it is a very serious issue that demands some very serious discussion. And though Sam Clemens had a lot of fun with Adam and Eve, for me the issue of sex begins with attempting to understand the story of The Fall in Genesis where it would seem women got the worst of the deal and trying to figure out why this should be?

Certainly many of the ills of the world are due to overpopulation. Here in America politicians are determined to acerbate the problem through open borders for the sake of slave labor and continue extorting the responsible to support the irresponsible, to socialize America out of existence through slave labor and unproductive mouths. But no politician dares address the issues of birth control as a condition for social services. Yet the question remains why those that rut like animals without any concern for the resulting babies be supported by responsible taxpayers, by those that have only the children they can care for and offer a future?

It comes down to sex, often mindless sex for the sake of pleasure only without any sense of personal responsibility attached, and perhaps the answer is in the Genesis account of The Fall. Over a long period of time I have been laboring over a writing project with the working title “Hey God! What went wrong and when are you going to fix it?” Most religious people are not amused. For example, a fellow who previously had been very friendly withdrew his invitation for me to attend his church when I told him about it. But one chapter deals with the issue of sex and “original sin” in the Bible. Needless to say, it is proving to be the longest and most complicated part of the book.

Life is not molecular; it has no atomic structure and may properly belong to that 96% of the universe scientists presently theorize is unknown, and possibly unknowable. But as I continue to mull the possibilities in the beginning chapters of Genesis concerning Creation and God breathing the breath of life into the “Adam” making him a living soul, it seems the gods determining to make the Adam in their own image with this breath of life may have been somewhat confused in the creation of Adam and Eve. In any event, something went terribly wrong according to the account given.

Adam can’t find a suitable companion among the creatures brought before him to be named, so the gods decided to provide him with Eve. But Eve is beguiled by the Serpent (that may have been jealous of Adam and Eve); she in turn tempts Adam, and things really fall apart. The gods hedged their bet by providing a “test” for the first couple. And though Adam “takes it like a man” and blames both God and Eve for his failure, for whatever reason Eve and her daughters thereafter take the brunt of “the curse” and have been paying dearly ever since, with even the New Testament blaming Eve for being deceived. No matter one’s opinion of this seeming injustice, no one can fail to see women pay a far higher price for “original sin” than men, and far too often are treated no better than prey with men as the predators.

To begin, once having eaten of the forbidden fruit from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” Adam and Eve realized they were naked and tried to cover themselves. Maybe this is where sex reared its head for the first time. The gods were shaken up and claimed Adam and Eve had become like the gods themselves, knowing both good and evil; sex being implied. So the Serpent told a half-truth, neglecting to mention the antidote to the forbidden fruit and the first couple was kicked out of the Garden to prevent them eating from “the tree of life” that would have enabled them to live forever like the gods. But before this happens, the judgment against the first couple is that women would suffer pain through childbirth, that they would forever after be subservient to men. And so it has been throughout human history, anecdotal blips of the occasional woman being in charge notwithstanding.

The story involving the curse pronounced against the Serpent may possibly be that of Satan’s fall, and though succeeding in deceiving Eve the promise given is while humankind may suffer at the hands of the Devil, the children of God will prevail in the end. In the meantime, as per the Scriptures Satan has dominion over the kingdoms of the earth, being confined here and going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour and setting those in positions of power according to his choosing making it as miserable as he can for those that would attempt to live by the precept of the Golden Rule.

But sex has been construed from earliest times to be the cause of The Fall and God’s judgment against Adam and Eve, with women being blamed for the most part as sinful creatures, even unclean and sin by definition, that tempt men to sin. Dear Harper Lee certainly took fundamentalists to task on this issue, but the history of it goes all the way back to the story in Genesis, though the Roman Church and most especially the religion of Islam carry it to real extremes.

Nevertheless, there is no getting around the fact that while men make wars while women attempt to make homes this whole issue of the power of sex has a lot to do with the wars men make. And in this sense, sex may rightfully be viewed as the sinful thing the ancients construed it to be; especially since it is the power women wield by their sex that promotes so much evil in the world. The whole field of pornography since the most ancient of times proves the power women have over men when it comes to sex. And it may rightly be thought this is most certainly not a good thing, since both men and women suffer as a result and it was with this justification Sam Clemens observed “men and women are natural born enemies.” While he joked about this, I believe he may have credited the Genesis story more than he admitted.

The “marriage bed” has been the most successful institution in providing some relief from the results of The Fall, but from the most ancient of times men having several wives and concubines has been approved while this has been denied women. Certainly a most unfair double standard, as was pointed out so delightfully in “Paint Your Wagon,” but one that might easily be understood in the light of the judgment pronounced against Eve in the beginning. But attempting to understand why this happened the way it did according to the Genesis account is one of the most difficult of tasks. And while the New Testament teaches a doctrine of monogamy, the kind of sinful human nature resulting from The Fall does not accommodate itself to fidelity, but rather what has become “serial monogamy” here in America where the old “Till death we do part” has become an antiquated anachronism.

Love may be a form of temporary insanity; whether or not it will inevitably be betrayed by either death or infidelity, a point that led Sam Clemens to express his conclusion “death is the only pure and unalloyed gift of God.” As romantic as I am, there are some very hard cold facts of human nature that are not easily overcome by romanticism. Answers to this conundrum of life are difficult to come by. While I credit the ancient myths, especially those of the Greeks, with much truth, and while goddesses play an important role throughout it is the male deities that inevitably have the upper hand. Except when it comes to the power women wield through sex, including the historical fact of prostitution where women, not men, have power. This is certainly an important issue in the Biblical account of the “sons of God and the daughters of men” along with various other mythologies, and a study of the mythologies having to do with the various goddesses I believe sheds some light on the reason women are judged so harshly. There must have been a reason why David and Solomon were so easily undone by a pretty face while another launched a thousand ships, none of which ended in “they lived happily ever after.”

But I’m going to keep working on the book, though the speculations run far ahead of my attempts to put them in any meaningful written expression. Of this I am certain: While sex lends itself to much levity, much like economics, as Thoreau pointed out, it cannot so easily be disposed. Life is disproportionately unfair, and sex lends not a little to the unfairness. The subject lends itself to the making of many books, but I believe there is a need for mine. I tell myself there must be a plan in all this; I’d hate to believe the gods are a’ dither like politicians exclaiming “We gotta have a plan!”