Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (ed. Vintage, 1990) - ISBN: 9780679735793