Love/Passion & Christian/Catholic Suicide/Chastity

[Terrance]

...indeed, according to some, the single melody,  banal and
exasperating, for all Romanticism since  the Middle Ages:
"the act of love and the act of death are one." 

V. 442

de Rougemont, Denis.  Love in the Western World.
   Trans. Montgomery Relgion.  Princeton, NJ:
   Princeton UP, 1956.

See Chapter 9, "The Love of Death" where the  meaning of the
sword is explained.  This sword, (note also the "red stain"
(LWW) that P in parody makes  the beer spilled in Chapter 10
part III

(beer, booze and **LWW intoxication** are also parodic
symbolism in V., as Robert said, the Crew worships
beer--Paola with the church key and the sack of 40s
clinking, -- note the red wine spilled all over the place at
crew parties, the ceremony where Profane is a corpse
intoxicated Born through the streets of NYC, very important
chapter) spilled on rug in the shape of Tristan's sword,
shows up in the chapter in which various young
people [don't quite] get together, 10, III. Mafia asks Benny
if he is gay,
since he  rebuffs her  advances after nearly giving her the 
much
needed adultery she seeks.  

Also, Fina says she is cherry--Virgin, and she tries to get 
Benny's sword
in the bath. His response is very important. First, he
questions his own astonishment at making the Catholic
argument, but he goes on to make it.  He tells her to remain
a Virgin, save it for her groom. Next he alludes to Mary and
the Annunciation, the Incarnation, it is, as the dates go,
around March 25th I suspect. And then he argues the
**Books** at her. This is funny stuff. But I think there is
a tragedy in the comedy.  Remember that this chapter (6, I)
opens with a statement about  Benny's  misunderstanding what
is actually going on with Fina, Joan of Arc, St. Fina and
himself.  He figures that "he was only the disembodied
object of a corporal work of mercy...another means to grace
or indulgence for Fina. 

Why doesn't Benny have sex with Mafia? 
Why doesn't he have sex with Fina? 
Why doesn't he have sex with Paola? 

Why does he have sex with Rachel?