ALAIN DE BOTTON - THE SCHOOL OF LIFE: How To Apply Philosophy To Real Life
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Sex Is a Relief From the Pressures of the Ordinary Life
It's very easy to feel you're weird around sex. And sex makes us want and do pretty weird stuff. We love a quote from kingsley amos where he said that having a sex drive was like being chained to an idiot for 50 years. People who are in ordinary life, as i say, very democratic and kindly and gentle may feel that the only thing that's going to be able to turn them on is to hit somebody else with a whip,. or er to call them rude words. But ultimately, this, in anarena of love, is an attempt to get close to somebody. It's a major act of intimacy to be can play sexual games. So many people
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