Sun, 06/06/2004 - 9:16pm — James Kalb
Sex is a basic principle of personal identity and social organization, continuity and cohesion. Those who say sexual love is “bigger than both of us” are more right than they know. Since sex helps constitute our world and make us what we are, we cannot reduce it to something we define for ourselves as we choose. The modern liberal insistence that we can do so is one basic reason liberal modernity can’t last.
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