text: Don't knock what you have not tried. Quit analogizing body parts by their meaning.  Any kind of vigorous intercourse can result in nerve damage unless care is taken, hence the intimacy.  As for your  respect, no one cares, Mike.  All the biological analysis was not the source of the original prohibitions in Leviticus, which were all about cultural/religious differentiation and it could be argued, still are.  Hurrah for our side is not a moral argument, it is group think, aka, Catholic Relativism.