unseriousness. Sex means whatever we want it to mean. It has no basic reality in itself. Sex is the white screen on which we project our hopes, identities, assumptions, and whatever else we want. It is a mirror, not a painting. Countering this, as we have seen, the Church points out that sex has its own meaning that is not reducible to what I would like sex to be. In fact, it has two meanings: babies and bonding. For a person made to feed on truth and to express this truth in loving well, genuine