POTGIESSER
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Richo Rosai said:
Sex is not an act of love. To make that statement you have to explain prostitution, rape, masturbation, and as an example, me, because I've never loved anyone I've had sex with more than I love a pizza but I've obeyed my compulsion to indulge in both plenty of times. Love is just an emotion that many humans connect to it, which may be a good thing in our case, but of course that connection isn't shared by 99% of the other sexual animals alive. Sex is a drive which, just like violence, is a large part of the human experience, and that's why it's a prevalently represented in art.
Ah, but we are human and have gone beyond the conventions of animalistic indulgences. Sex can be love as much as sex can be just sex. Love and Lust.
Prostitution: You're merely buying/selling the physical act of sex as a means of service. Quite conversely, people can actually fall in love with the person they buy it from or sell themselves to.
Rape: Serial rapists are definitely in it for the sex. But every once in a while there's somebody whose so obsessed and "in love" with a person that they will be motivated to have them anyway they can. This is the darker, ugly, evil, aspect of love. I don't wanna get philosophical or sound like a mystic but look at the Yin Yang. The black part has a white dot in it, and the white part has a black dot in it. They are synergistic of each other, and the opposites have essences of each other in them. Love can be both good and evil, much like the wielder of a firearm. It's the personal motivations behind the wielder that inherently dictate it's morality.
Masturbation: A narcissist of epic proportions could see it as loving themselves. I've yet to encounter anyone like it, and I hope I never do.
You: All it means is you've never fucked anyone you've actually loved. I'm sure in the back of your mind you've at one point visualized such a person that you could fall in love with. May never manifest on this plane of existence, but you must know how that archetype makes you feel when you visualize them. I thought I was incapable of feeling love, till someone came along to prove otherwise. We aren't together anymore, but I know that I'm capable of loving again if somebody like that comes along.
I'm not saying you have to love the people that you fuck, but never say never. You can only remain a biochemical detached machine for so long.
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