/lit/ - Literature

>>22111714
>The one and only purpose of this desire -- which gives it meaning -- is that it allows you to reproduce.
Absolutely arbitrary metaphysics divorced from experience and practice and anything that would give someone a reason to care about it.

The 'purpose' of the mouth is eating, and perhaps howls to warn of approaching predators. Yet people put it to the use of poetry. Cities are 'only' the hypertrophied burrows and nests of vulnerable mammals with an instinct to group together. Yet they've become whole universes in their own right.

Sexuality came about *because* (not *for*) reproduction, but it's transformed into one of the most intense and complex ways in which you experience your limits and entanglements with the world and with other people; it exists in a space between instinct and social sign-systems that only art can really equal.

You're going to call that pseudish nonsense and maybe my wording is vague and pseudish -- but it's hard to talk about sexuality. Which is why people who only care about the comforting security of essential rigid meanings revert to the cliches you used.