Dr. J. Budziszewski

It has a purpose.

It's to arouse us to the defense of endangered goods, the ordinate defense of endangered goods.

What is the eye for?

It's to see.

What are the sexual powers for?

For

for turning the wheel of the generations and for the union of the procreative partners.

Now, those purposes are embedded.

John Paul II was very good in recognizing that this is, meaning is objective, but he was very good at recognizing that this has a subjective side too.

By subjective, I don't mean relativistic.

I mean something the subject experiences.

It has a meaning.

My wife and I, or any two people who engage in the marital act, they are giving themselves to each other.

It means that.

It can't not mean that, even if we try to make it mean something different or try not to think about it or overwrite it with some other meaning.

So there are both inbuilt meanings

and inbuilt purposes.

This produces such strong expectations of meaning that that's why we become so frustrated and so angry when we can't find it.

Or when we think we know what the meaning is, but we don't like it because we want to do something different.

It can't.