‘Where they love, they have no desire, and where they desire, they cannot love.’

A large portion of who we are as adults, from our sexual fantasies to our parted legs, becomes impossible to share with almost anyone we know.

Moments when sex overwhelms our rational selves have a well-known habit of being erotic.

The signs of others’ satisfaction in our existence declines, and their enthusiasm begins to be linked to our performance. It is what we do rather than what we are that is now of interest to them.

whatever we are attracted to through our sense of sight leads us ultimately away from the merely visual, away from the material, and into a wider positive category referred to by Plato as ‘the Good’.

something that everyone should have as often as possible in order to relieve the stresses of modern life.

Postcoital sadness often settles over a couple.

Suffering sexual rejection by the person with whom we have pledged to share our life is a much odder and more humiliating experience.

The most urgent problems we face with sex seldom have anything to do with technique.