the state of sex & love
by alexi gunner · updated 3mo ago
the state of sex & love
by alexi gunner · updated 3mo ago
Sexual continence—chastity—outside of celibacy looks like a relationship to sex that doesn’t idolize it, doesn’t let it define us, doesn’t let it become a hunger that eats us alive. In other words, the gift of chastity is that it trains us not to need; it grants us an integrity and independence and agency in the face of various drives and hungers.
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WHAT DO WE want when we want to have sex? More starkly: what are we hoping for when we imagine happiness looks like having as much sex as possible?
alexi gunner added 3mo ago
Sex is that paradoxical combination of vulnerability and assertion, giving ourselves up and wanting all the more.
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