- Sex is dead and it is we who have killed it.
- A friend sent me an article today citing a decline in sexual activity amongst all young professionals, as well as teenagers. The culprits: pornography, phones, a culture of claustrophobic fear.
- Today it only seems possible to read accounts of sexual violence — never of sexual pleasure. Or — there is pornography and rape: cartoons of sexuality that leave very little room for representations of the far more ambiguous, open-ended, interesting, sex that most non-criminals or sexual athletes have.
- Eros is dead and it is we who have killed it.
- Erotic relationships are difficult, masturbation is easy. And human beings tend to do the easy thing.
- Plato knew more about sex than we do: erotic love is about the cultivation of the soul.
- Because we have so little understanding of, or care for, the soul, we have little understanding, or care for, sex.
- D.H. Lawrence: “The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”
- I wonder if Freudian analysis has fallen out of favor because it is too profound for our shallow culture. Too close to revealing what we keep hidden; festering.
- What people want is anti-depressants and Tinder — so they have to find justification for their desires.
