God. Sex is not only sensual and physical; it is also profoundly personal and spiritual. To separate our sexuality from our spirituality is to rob both of meaning and passion. Holiness is not a flight from our body or an aversion to sensuality. Song of Songs leads us in a new understanding of sensual holiness as long as we are not sidetracked by its two-thousand-year history of Christian neoplatonic de-eroticization. We do not benefit from extreme modesty, such as the fabled blushing Victorian covering