The title of this piece is not meant to convey the meaning of merely striptease displays of a woman removing all her clothes to a group of gawking guys inside a privately-public nude bar, but instead more along the lines of sexual-intercourse actors with actresses on stage in an adult theater.

Parts of wedding ceremonies have always bothered me, although it is not a majority of the liturgy and vows, nor the sermon, hymns, candles, etc. I have objected to.

What has disgruntled me is certain anglican-text format in which the clergy has the groom and bride promise to "worship" one another, because even though that archaic word might - and then again, might NOT - have been understood in a different sense back in the old days, it certainly bespeaks now of blasphemously adoring humans in the sense that only God Himself should be worshipped and adored.

I have never liked seeing the congregation stand when the bgride enters up the aisle instead of standing for the groom. Seems to me the Bride of Christ would certainly not take preeminence over Christ Jesus Himself, the latter one of whom mentioned would be the ONLY one I would stand for. Feminist sexism and inferior-gender chauvenism has no place in Christian assemblies.

I have never liked hearing both groom and bride promise to dissolve their marriage upon death, with the divorce-at-death words "till death do us part." Alternate words should be used which have no chance of potentially inferring what is despicable heresy.

Most of all, I have never liked the sex show suggested to the couple by the clergy of: "you may now kiss the bride." Decently-minded congregants are and should be content with waiting to see the bride eventually become pregnant and bear a child to prove that both her and her groom-turned-husband have finally fucked each other plus both are fertile and not impotent (with "impotence" for the groom meaning not capable of viable erective functioning and/or not having sufficient healthy sperm count).

The lustful layity and clergy observing the wedding ceremony would - I am sure - find it more erotically entertaining to not only watch the groom kiss the bride, but then see her lift up her wedding gown and sit down, after which her groom slips off her slippers and nylons and washes her feet, then sucking her naked toes dry. Continuing with pedipenisium (foot massaging his penis) as she laid on her back after he dropped his pants, and then penis-sucking fellatio, would be even more titillating to the gutter-minded goofs in the pews, but probably soon mess up (with ejaculated semen) the bride's wedding dress along with carpet near the altar.

One more thing.

It would be so nice if the bride and bridesmaids did not expose their bare-naked shoulders, backs, and arms with inappropriately immodest wedding uniforms. Even see-through bride veils don't help.

This brings us to the beginning of a discussion about sexual intercourse.

Though one could classify the stages and types of heterosexual human sexual intercourse differently, suffice it to say at this point that there are three echelons of erotic human connections:

General would include such publicly-observable actions as cheek or momentary lip kissing, a brief hug, an arm around the shoulder, lap-sitting, handholding, and/or even a long handshake.

Specific would include fondling the clothed breasts, buttocks, and/or groin area of a woman by a man, or the clothed buttocks and/or groin area of a man by a woman.

The Intermediate Echelon involves fondling whatever body parts of whoever under clothing, and that includes both General (fondling non-private parts) and Specific (fondling private parts such as a woman's breast(s), buttock(s), or pubic area - or a man's buttock(s) and/or pubic area).

The Ultimate Echelon involves General Ultimate consisting of massaging non-private parts of an open-to-view all-nude body, whereas Specific Ultimate consisting of massaging private parts of an open-to-view all-nude body of either man or woman.

So-called "safe" sex is never safe, in that incremental intercourse ending in abrupt truncation is never satisfying nor usually possible. One thing leads to another - and eventually will - since both man and woman generally persist and desire to continue further into more intimate connections.

The CORRECTLY-translated Biblical injuction of First Corinthians (chapter 7 verses 1 and 2) of: 'It is good for a man to not touch a woman. But because of the temptation to immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband' applies pertaining to all three echelons of human sexual connections.