On the one hand, «if the man and the woman cease to be
a disinterested gift for each other, as they were in the mystery of creation, then they recognise that «they are naked» (cf. Gn 3).
[9] Rather than being willful self - assertion, his
gift of self needs to be «
disinterested,» i.e. not self - centred, but
for the sake of the
other who was willed by the Creator «
for his / her own sake», and who has a destiny in God.