Returning to the account in Genesis, it depicts the re-union of male and female not only as meeting God’s concern about the man being alone, but also as the foundation for a social reality. The two become one flesh because the man “clings to his wife”.16 The word, “clings to” also means “sticks to”. Becoming one flesh refers not to a single moment of ecstasy, such as may occur in a single act of sexual intercourse, but to an ongoing state. That a man “leaves his father