Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately. We could age respectably, get used to our privileges and think we understood what was going on. We might disappear into numbers and words alone. It is sex that creates a necessary havoc in the ordinary hierarchies of power, status, money and intelligence… We might even embrace the pain sex causes us, for without it we wouldn’t know art and music quite so well… When every contemptuous but fair thing has been said about our infernal sexual desires, we can still celebrate them for not allowing us to forget for more than a few days at a time what is really involved in living an embodied, chemical and largely insane human life.
How To Think More About Sex (2012)
Use the link below to visit the website of Swiss-born British writer and philosopher ALAIN DE BOTTON:
https://www.alaindebotton.com/
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