It's a story, primitive story, primordial, which means basic, deep; a true story. It's from Genesis, the beginning book of the Bible, beginning of humanity. Genesis means "in the beginning." In the beginning, God made man and woman and put them in the garden. God will keep the good garden. All man and woman must do is to enjoy, to "be fruitful and multiply" -- which sounds enjoyable.

It's a story like the ones told to and by children -- naive, fairytale-like, deep, true, like the fairytales told to you when you were young, which Brunno Bettelheim says "speak the unspeakable and plumb the depths of our being."

Once upon a time, we had it all -- with no business more pressing than "to be fruitful and multiply." Once upon a time we were like children, naked but unashamed, trusting and unafr…