Chapter 17 - Having sex
"The urge must be received, the call answered. All of which suggests the phrase 'having sex' gets the order wrong - sex has us.
Neither the Darwinistic narrative of sex for survival nor, for that matter, Aristophane's fable of the self's homecoming (Plato's Symposion) thinks of sex needing love to make it work, and that's perhaps why both, as theories, feel unsatisfying.", p.158
Love can be subdivided into friendship (philia), sexual atraction (eros) and spiritual or emotional love (agape).
"However much love or friendship contributes to it, sex has, in order to be sex, to pass above, or beneath, those more elevated states: there has to be some action", p.161
"If love and friendship had everything in the sack sewn up, there'd no need for all those manuals on the positions; and because it's fundamentally different, sex looks for a different language, and finds it in the grammars of fucking", p.161
"There's a school of thought going back to French philosopher Georges Bataille - a contemporary of Theodor Adorno - which argues that, once the eye is involved, mind's eye included, obscenity has begun.", p.162
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