Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea i…

Octavio Paz
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Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied. ✨ Octavio Paz (1998). An Erotic Beyond: Sade, Harcourt
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