Put The Veil Over My Eyes

Ancient wisdom agrees that sexual emission depletes man's vitality. Freud affirms that all works of culture result from sublimation - the rerouting of sexual energy. In a culture that celebrates unrestrained sexuality, the most radically liberating move is chastity.

Self-flaggelants will be the old-new exhibitionists.

Free porn makes the challenge greater than for any previous generation. But the rewards for self-restraint are potentially all the greater. Sexual frustration is a primal power. He who conquers himself may conquer the world.

The Middle Ages produced saints. Modernity will produce gods.

Sex is samsara, futile desire, post-coital sadness, pre-coital ensnarement. Sex empowers others and depletes our selves. The Muslims have it right but totally backwards. We need blindfolds for men (ocular veils), not burqas for women.

Sluts will walk. The chaste will rise.