And church-as-parenting sometimes leave the flock in the same boat.

People that don’t care what God wants or the Bible says use these religious legalities as a way to do as much as they can while still appeasing their consciences and perhaps their peers, it really has nothing to do with God or Christianity/Catholicism.

No, no! That’s far too . . . earthy and animalistic. Now granted, most of us can tolerate only a slight level of human musk before it becomes offensive, but we’ve conditioned ourselves to tolerate less and less of it; as a rule, we work to eliminate even the faintest hint of our own animal Perhaps this is why some of us can’t tell who we’re attracted to until it’s too late, and we realize it isn’t the one we’re married to? . . . oops.

Difficult and absurd. One has to wonder how much harm has been caused in this world due to the tortured self loathing of the human animal writhing under the faith-based dictum that his erection or her lubrication are obscene, filthy, and sinful. A lot of people apparently grow up and get over it—or manage to use the ritual “purification” you mention as an escape hatch—but you gotta wonder about all those who never did, ala the Wild Man in Huxley’s “Brave New World.”

Over the centuries, it seem the Catholic Church, with it missionary work taking Christianity to the “unenlightened around the world, sort of borged everything up on the way. In many cases, the teachings f the missionaries were combined with the local beliefs and resulted in religions like Santeria, Voodoo, and Obeah. Much of the Catholic dogma delegated the “heathen gods” to positions of leadership among Satan’s minions, but much of the ceremonial aspects remain.
The traditional Wedding ceremony contains non Christian rituals (throwing rice, flowers, the white wedding gown) as do the ceremonies and traditions of Easter and Christmas.
Troughout the practice of Christianity there seems to be an obsession with denying the animal nature of mankind. It seems that all animalistic traits are considered evil. Animalistic traits which we can’t deny are “sanitized” through ritual or practiced in private.
So…
Reproduction is sanitized through the ritual of marriage, but actual procreation is a necessary evil and must be hidden away. Genetalia are also evil (as are breasts ) and must be kept hidden.
Eating and drinking are somewhat ritualized in a social setting, and elimation of bodily wastes are kept private.
It sends a subliminal message to the faithful that the body is evil because of it’s animalist attributes and to transcend the animal on must control the animal within, which is very difficult where the sex drive is involved.

Hank a tesseract is to a cube what a cube is to a square. A square is a segment of a plane bounded by 4 line segments. a cube is a space bounded by 6 squares. A tesseract then would be a hyperspace bounded by 8 cubes.

The problem with 4-dimensional geometry is that it is difficult people to visualize. Even though the math does not give any indication of the existence of 4th dimensional shortcuts across 3-d space, It has been used as a convienent plot device in many sci-fi stories as a method of faster than light travel.

Navigating a tesseract literally requires thinking outside the box where familiar rules may not apply in the usual ways. However when some people think outside the box, they assume none of the rules apply and feel obligated to freely invent their own.