Because they are two sides of the same coin. Spirituality and sexuality are very closely related. The small group leaders and I were working with this passage earlier this week, and we threw out words like trust, faith, commitment, none of which really adequately accounted for the disciples throwing everything aside and going off with Jesus on a journey that would take them God knows where. That pretty much covers it. Context is everything.
Romantic love has to have the proper container.
Those societal boundaries, which seem so boring and insensitive to those on a romantic high keep our inflation in check and provide safety. If we ignore them, we get burned. There is a close relationship between sexual energy and divine energy. It is also no accident that so many religious cults come to their end in some tragic way. It s not that trying to access the divine is wrong, it s that accessing the Divine without the proper mediation, without the proper container is tantamount to sticking your finger into 220 volt socket.