text: "Love is a mutual benevolence, mutually known" (Aristotle, "Ethics").  
  We know, at least intuitively, that love is an analogous reality as it is in concept: I love mustard; I love my dog; I love my children; I love my spouse; I love God; God loves me (awesome).  The not subtle, self-serving, scholastic and ecclesial distinctions of eros, agape, etc., are so inadequate, perverse in their intent to indoctrinate, rationalize celibacy, chastity, clerical and ecclesial submission; to denigrate sex. What is fundamental is "bene-volence"- w-i-l-l-i-n-g the good for other, as active, "being for", and intrinsic mutuality. 
  Reproduction, "complementarity" of organs, intercourse, indissolubility, are all subsidiary to the "mutual benevolence mutually known". Jesus knew/knows that. It is His redemptive act: his "ontological" elevation of us to efficacy - or potential - in relationship with, within the Trinity. 
  The Church should reflect, learn and teach human love- God's image and likeness.