SEXUALITY AS A COMPONENT PART OF OUR COMMONALITY (Inspired by Fr. Onyango Martin, M.Afr)

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Sexuality is one of the fundamental components of our relationships, our communications, love justice for all, and even, for portraying our true personalities. Every human being is sexual with a raw energy within us. It gives us power to perform different activities depending on how we process it. Our lives have a generative or productive aspect. The greatest concern could be how productive am I? Possibly, some people tend toward positive effectiveness. On the other hand, some of us decide to be productive but in a negative sense. We ought to acknowledge that being negative in our productivity is a sign that our praxis has loopholes. In this sense we have not processed our raw energy rightly and so not sexually integrated. However, one who is sexually integrated acts toward positive productivity.

As human beings we have two sexuality stages. These include the primary and secondary stages. The primary stage deals with gender; thus, we acknowledge that God created us as either man or woman. The secondary stage takes into the genitalia or our sexual organs. Most of us tend to dwell on the secondary stage in all our relationships. We must know that our sexuality is broad but not just limited to the genitalia as the youth tend to believe. If we can understand the importance of sexuality then we shall always to be free and open up to talk about what is going on in our sexual life. This is also another characteristic of being sexually integrated. To be sexually integrated simply means that an individual is able to accept acknowledge one’s gender, sexual orientation and appreciate himself or herself. This means that one is in position to realise that he/ she is human and a sexual being and above all who ought to act with personal and integrated responsibility. 

The climax of sexual integration is intimacy; an aspect where we relate with people of all genders not only in a more ‘solid’ way but with boundaries. At times, people who are meant to be committed to different vocations tend to ‘double deal’.  This is a sign of lack of sexual integration. In facts living uncommitted life not only hurts us but also the people we engage with.

We can imitate the example of Jesus who was perfectly integrated. This is clear when he related with all kinds of people including the females such as Martha and Mary. For all His life-time, Jesus was never accused of any sex scandal. He chose an operational mode that would lead him to fulfil God’s will. All his raw energy was put to use for service. We must know that we pick our own operational only when we are fully integrated. One of the ways that can help us to understand our sexuality is taking a sexual history. At the end, the sexual history will not only benefit us but our community members. This is because we shall be in position of accepting ourselves and not condemning other by their sexual orientations but treating each other as brothers and sisters.

Simon Peter Kahinda

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