But is this sex?
Knowing what sex is, can we call this other also sex?
We cannot.
This meeting of many in one great passionate purpose is not sex, and should never be confused with sex.

It is a great motion in the opposite direction.

And I am sure that the ultimate, greatest desire in men is this desire for great _purposive_ activity.

When man loses his deep sense of purposive, creative activity, he feels lost, and is lost.

When he makes the sexual consummation the supreme consummation, even in his _secret_ soul, he falls into the beginnings of despair.
When he makes woman, or the woman and child the great center of life and of life-significance, he falls into the beginnings of despair.
Man must bravely stand by his own soul, his own responsibility as the creative vanguard of life.