June 2018.
"Eating and copulation have always been of interest to people and are likely to remain so. Each of these behaviours satisfies a basic biological need - eating, the survival of the individual; copulation, the survival of the species. Each may be a rich source of pleasure through gratification of desire - or a rich source of pain, for many reasons....." (Thomas Szasz, 1980)
Andy Warhol said that "sex is the biggest nothing of all time".
If eating and sex are comparable - which of course they are - then we could also conceivably add to his opinion with the following one: "food is the biggest nothing of all time as well."
Andy Warhol was supposedly "gay". Perhaps we can assume that if sex is nothing, then so-called "homosexuality" is double nothing.
Andy Warhol's quote would perhaps help to make the point that sex is entirely a biological function, and that all of its manifestations in human culture are based on this biological basis. In this sense it is a limited entity, if not exactly a "nothing".
Reproduction - like nutrition - is a basic function of biological life. But whilst sex is a basic drive and probably a basic need, it is sometimes possible to do without it, particularly in middle age and later life. In this sense it is not like food which is a lifelong absolute necessity. Sex is not necessarily a lifelong necessity.
But it is very, very rare and unusual - not to mention very difficult - for humans who are members of either sex to maintain a lifelong and complete celibacy and abstention from sexual activity.
That last point is the reason why I am not changing the name of this blog, which I first put up here a few years ago.
This was in order to present an opinion which I think is important for humanity to express, and to counteract the lies of certain religious beliefs.
"Eating and copulation have always been of interest to people and are likely to remain so. Each of these behaviours satisfies a basic biological need - eating, the survival of the individual; copulation, the survival of the species. Each may be a rich source of pleasure through gratification of desire - or a rich source of pain, for many reasons....." (Thomas Szasz, 1980)
Andy Warhol said that "sex is the biggest nothing of all time".
If eating and sex are comparable - which of course they are - then we could also conceivably add to his opinion with the following one: "food is the biggest nothing of all time as well."
Andy Warhol was supposedly "gay". Perhaps we can assume that if sex is nothing, then so-called "homosexuality" is double nothing.
Andy Warhol's quote would perhaps help to make the point that sex is entirely a biological function, and that all of its manifestations in human culture are based on this biological basis. In this sense it is a limited entity, if not exactly a "nothing".
Reproduction - like nutrition - is a basic function of biological life. But whilst sex is a basic drive and probably a basic need, it is sometimes possible to do without it, particularly in middle age and later life. In this sense it is not like food which is a lifelong absolute necessity. Sex is not necessarily a lifelong necessity.
But it is very, very rare and unusual - not to mention very difficult - for humans who are members of either sex to maintain a lifelong and complete celibacy and abstention from sexual activity.
That last point is the reason why I am not changing the name of this blog, which I first put up here a few years ago.
This was in order to present an opinion which I think is important for humanity to express, and to counteract the lies of certain religious beliefs.