Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1454

1454. But throughout all this chaos of outer sexual phenomena only one thing is established to an inordinate degree as the central factor, and this one thing is nothing other than the "desire for sexual satisfaction or pleasure". It has thus long since become an irrefutable fact that neither strict religious moral laws with the authority of thousands of years behind them nor punitive measures with capital punishment and expulsion from both terrestrial and supposedly "heavenly" society and thereby abandonment to "eternal" perdition , not to mention the eagerness with which the person concerned is helplessly turned into "copy" in sensational gossip columns, has been able to contain this pleasure within the discipline, restraints or restrictions stipulated by the ecclesiastical and judicial authorities. The satisfaction or enjoyment of the sexual desire is like a stream coursing eternally through the mentality of terrestrial mankind for thousands upon thousands of years. It is like a rivulet that began as a modest little spring and gradually, as it was joined by several other rivulets, became a stream, and continued growing in this way until it became the enormous, torrential river of today that had long since burst the dam, in the form of sexual moral laws with capital punishment and "eternal perdition", erected by terrestrial human beings in an attempt to stem its flow, the dam that we know as the "authorised marriage" that is blessed by church and state.