A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are… - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Good Lord, what's that unholy racket!"
"I forgot you weren't a Scot, darling, don't you like the bagpipes?

Every human being needs to believe in the goodness of some power that created him, no matter what he calls it, and some religious or ethical structure. But I don’t think we need sacraments or priesthoods from a world that’s only a memory, and won’t even be that to our children and our children’s children. Ethics, yes. Art, yes. Music, crafts, knowledge, humanity—yes. But not rituals which will quickly dwindle down into superstitions. And certainly not a social code or a set of purely arbitrary behavioral attitudes which have nothing to do with the society we are in now.

The trouble is, we’ve all gotten out of the habit of connecting pregnancy and sex, we all have a civilized attitude about it now.