For reasons which we will get into, later, the rules which you are about to see aren't the ones which I would put in place, now, at least not at the Shrine. There is another, hypothetical group which we are about to discuss, at which they might be appropriate.

At the Shrine, what was prohibited before, for the most part, is prohibited now. But, additional prohibitions have been put in place with the result that, aside from the demands to honor commitments, treat one's mate gently and not undermine established relationships (we do not believe that "all is fair in love and war"), the rules are ones which would be familiar to those who had been to college in more recent times, and occasionally been out to the theatre. Gone is the clothing-optional nature of the old Shrine. Gone is the old relative permissiveness.

This is not a matter of moral reconsideration, but one of practicality. As damaged as the current era we live in is, we're stuck in it. But, as those of us who grew up in college towns know, not so very long ago there was another, healthier cultural era, when I could have placed fewer constraints. It was that era that was on my mind, as I wrote the piece which you're about to see.