I think that must mean that sexuality is something you FEEL....not something you DO.

~Shayla

Here I was thinking that he was lamenting the "biology" of it all when the act actually arrives as opposed to the sensuality during the buildup, but I like your take on it better.

You go, girl!  Lemme see...sexy, smart, poetic, good taste in cinema , and defender of the downtrodden.  Is there anything you don't do?

That people sexually tease themselves a lot, but actually have sex seldom, and with little enthusiasm.  A side effect of Christianity.

/Zin

thanks to everyone for your very insightful thoughts on this quote. personally, i think it is realted to the idea thast sexuality is "something that you feel, not something that you do." it's something that you feel maybe as a kind of substitute for doing -- so that when you're actually doing, you're not feeling quite the same thing.

someone recently told me about a museum of eroticism that she wanted to visit. i'm in no hurry. i imagine there are a lot of dildos and other artifacts. what's really erotic could not be put in any museum -- an unexpected glimpse, a secret touch
(sigh!)

freud wrote thast it's not surprising that people masturbate, what's surprising is that they do anything else. i guess he could have meant fucking as well as masturbating. Maybe sexuality is the erotic element in non-fucking activites that allows us to stay interested in them. Or at least to get them done. Just like now, when i'm gonna go take out the garbage...