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C. S. Lewis has some wise words about sex in the Eros chapter of The Four Loves: "our advertisements, at their sexiest, paint the whole business in terms of the rapt, the intense, the swoony-devout; seldom a hint of gaiety. And the psychologists have so bedevilled us with the infinite importance of complete sexual adjustment and the all but impossibility of achieving it, that I could believe some young couples now go to it with the complete works of Freud, Kraft-Ebbing, Havelock Ellis and Dr. Stopes spread out on the bed-tables all around them. Cheery old Ovid, who never either ignored a mole-hill or made a mountain of it, would be more to the point. . . . We must not be totally serious about Venus. Indeed we can't be totally series without doing violence to our humanity. It is not for nothing that every language and literature in the world is full of jokes about sex. Many of them may be dull or disgusting and nearly all of them are old. BUt we must insist that they embody an attitude to Venus which in the long run endangers the Christian life far less than a reverential gravity. We must not attempt to find an absolute in the flesh. Banish play and laughter from the bed of lofe and you may let in a false goddess. She will be even falser than the Aphrodite of the Greeks; for they, even while they worshipped her, knew that she was 'laughter-loving.'"
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at 02:58 PM
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