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I have had sex out of love and it’s an amazing, wonderful, transformative thing. At its height, it is the most overwhelming thing I have ever experienced. I have also had sex in my life largely as a way to escape this fucking brain in my head, that won’t stop constantly analyzing and thinking. I have had sex for these reasons as well – so I can gain a few blissful moments when I do not think at all. The relief of this is indescribable and, for me at least, an element of mental and psychological health.

I recall one marathon twelve-hour session of passion many years ago now. It was only afterwards that I realized I had barely had a single trace of an analytic thought for the longest period I could then remember. I was never happier. As I finally collapsed into my lover’s arms with the final orgasm that drained every last drop of desire or need from my body and soul, I understood for the first time why the French call coming “le petit mort” [*]. It can be the emptying of self entirely. Which is why sex is so close at times to the presence of the divine, and reflects and incarnates God in ways few other things can so easily. We are more animal and more divine in sex than in any other activity.

The ordeal of consciousness is at times oppressive. To leave that consciousness and yet stay so vividly alive is one of sex’s great wonders. Love is deeper than that; friendship is deeper still. But I know nothing that God has given us – save psilocybin – that gives us this divine, if fleeting, parole from a vale of tears.

[*] la petite mort

the little death

Data Analysis Of The Day — Sex Scandal Edition

Chris F. Masse — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:43:20 +0000

Eliot Spitzer has simply demonstrated once again that those who rise to the top of organizations are very often the most demented, conflicted individuals in any group.

Chris F. Masse — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:03:54 +0000

The only question that remains for those who work for such people and vote for them when they run is why we continue to be grossed out, shocked and scandalized when the very personality attributes that got them to the top manifest themselves in questionable form.

“Prostitution is inevitable, so we might as well legalize and regulate it.”

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:00:43 +0000

That’s what many libertarians think, right? But Nicholas Kristof has a piece in the New York Times that is well informed and balanced… and that could change the mind of some libertarians…

“Kristen” (outed in today’s NYT), photographed in a French port… (Saint Tropez, it is said, but I’m not so sure… St-Trop, as I know it, is a fishermen’s village…)

More on the Eliot Spitzer scandal from Slate…

Inside the Emperors Club V.I.P.

Suspicious Activity Report filed by Mr. Spitzerâ€™s bank

Eliot Spitzer’s bio