A Brief Thought on Sex and the Golden Compass

In an interview for Atlantic Monthly, Philip Pullman, author of the Golden Compass, told Hannah Rosin regarding sex and the alleged Christian repression thereof:

"Why the Christian Church has spent 2,000 years condemning this glorious moment, well, that's a mystery. I want to confront that, I suppose, by telling a story that the so-called original sin is anything but. It's the thing that makes us fully human."

I do indeed agree that sex is a glorious moment, something that God designed for our pleasure and worship of Him, and is indeed full of Him. However, the idea that we ought to be completely sexually "free" in the sense of being able to follow our every sexual instinct, does not make us more fully human. Indeed, it makes us more fully animal.