QUOTE : With hope for that ultimate intimacy, here are some rules for human beings in this life:<br /><br />Sexual relations outside marriage are wrong, without regard to class, gender, or other human differentiation.<br /><br />Human happiness and flourishing is thoroughly compatible with sexual abstinence.<br /><br />The flourishing of human beings does not lie in marriage but in being able to live with others as friends, and marriage itself should be understood, in its ultimate sense, as being oriented to friendship.