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“Here is a possible pharmacopornographic definition of sexuality: a techno-organic activity corresponding to the type of work praxis in which—to follow Marx’s formulation— “production is inseparable from the act of producing” and is thus “an activity that has no end product,” because it is “a practice that finds its own achievement in itself, without becoming objectified in any outcome that exceeds it.”

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“Under a man's hands--crush of his body--exigent breath--I remembered how to perform. Yes when I meant no. Lust or satisfaction or pleasure. Gratitude, as required, knowing that, naked beneath a man's disappointment, there lay this possibility of violence, as pungent and close-fitting as skin. One pound of flesh, paid freely, was preferable to a bloodier extraction. My past roles of sex kitten and hard bitch, blushing penitent, coy exotic, tease: I'd learned, long before this day, that I could play anything to avoid the role of victim.”

“...the church and other guardians of public morality have a point. Sex is powerful; passionate love can be transgressive of the good order of society. It can be sinful, causing great harm and pain to others. And the erotic in literature may beguile, seduce....The solution is not, however, to deny but to recognize and accept the power of this aspect of our humanity, and to channel it into fruitfulness and productivity, to see it as a gift from God, to find God in it. And to rejoice in being fully alive, body and soul for the glory of God.”