Unqualified

Consciousness has no qualities. The first quality it does not have is gender.

Love and sex

Eros and libido are abundance and deficiency.  One has, the other wants. One waxes, the other wanes.

Sex

Man is a three-brained animal: head, heart, gut. The gut brain is the sex centre. It has two modes of being: attraction or indifference. Pills to enhance sexual function can override indifference but they cannot alter it.

Forged in the fire of relationships

When Aladdin rubbed his hands together, the friction was sufficient to summon the genie in his ring. When his mother buffed his magic lamp, an even greater genie appeared. Apparently, we need friction.

The sex habit

Don’t take sex too seriously. It is, after all, just a habit. Habits can be indulged, cultivated, hung onto, detached from or broken. Whatever seems right and natural, that’s the thing to do.