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"The impulse to live, heightened to the utmost and affirmed, approaches the impulse to die. Eros is the medium for intensifying life to the point of death. Indeed, although erotic activity is, in the first place, an exuberance of life, the object of this psychological quest--independent of any concern to reproduce life--is not alien to death."
— May 19, 2026 09:14AM
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Haley Baumeister
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"The pornification of the world is unfolding as the profanation of the world. Porn profanes the erotic."
"Profanation... involves practicing a special form of negligence with respect to what has been set apart in this manner."
— May 19, 2026 09:30AM
"Profanation... involves practicing a special form of negligence with respect to what has been set apart in this manner."
Haley Baumeister
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"A society of positivity, from which negativity has disappeared, is a society of bare life--which is dominated by the exclusive concern of making sure of survival in the face of discontinuity. This is a slave's life. Concern for bare life, for survival alone, strips life of all vitality... Whatever is merely positive is lifeless. Negativity is essential to vitality."
— May 19, 2026 09:23AM
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"The crisis of love does not derive from too many others, so much as from the erosion of the other."
— May 18, 2026 09:35AM
