Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Love and sex

The sex drive is a gift of evolution. The love drive is a gift of culture. Sex is an instinct even when culture perverts it. Love could not be love until there was language sufficient to make sense of it.

Love, like sex, is also perverted by culture. Is sex love? Is love sex? Is sex beyond love? Does love grow from sex or sex from love? We've spent our whole history as humans trying to answer questions like these in poetry, dance, images, music. Any transitional answers seem always at the mercy of changing culture.

Still, we can ask what the world would be like if the love drive were as strong as the sex drive.

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