Because of all this, Christians don't understand sexuality as something that mars our pristine souls with all that gross embodiment—fluids and limbs and passion. Our sexuality is rather a critical part of who we are, part of what makes us unique and alive and which draws us into connection with others. But, and this is important: our sexuality is also only a part of who we are.
Our sexual practices can certainly be sinful: sexual encounters pursued out of self-loathing; infidelity; acts of coercion or abuse of power. Our sexual practices, however, can also be (and hopefully are, mostly) means of grace: a way of paying attention to the beauty and wholeness of another, a way to practice vulnerability and mutuality, a way to experience pleasure and joy.
We are created by God, and created as sexual beings, from our earliest days; we're called to faithfully seek the meanings and implications of those two facts of life until the day we die.