Originally Posted by !@#$%!

if it was merely a matter of the mind then he could talk to a priest, or a book (or even the internet )would be good enough. i am for the mind, but i am strongly against denying the body in the name of romantic abstractions. i never (ever) said "a quick shag", that is an error of people who practice dualism-- mind vs. body, good vs. evil-- which is ultimately a load of balls.

i think (i speculate, from inference) that alex lives perhaps too much in his head. it would not hurt him to descend into his skeleton & find out what it does & how it operates. the body is a great & wonderful thing, not some useless moprag.

there is something that a whiff of the smell of your loved one can give you that no "mental" exchange can give you. something that feeds the body and the emotions in a way that no idea can. there is no need to dirty the body by claiming that all it wants is a "quick shag". just read walt whitman, he explains it all beautifully.