Eros and Thanatos
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- "Human sexuality is, quite apart from Christian repressions, a highly questionable phenomenon, and belongs, at least potentially, among the extreme rather than the ordinary experiences of humanity. Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself." --Susan Sontag in the The Pornographic Imagination
See also
- Erotic asphyxiation
- Liebestod
- Little death
- Love and death
- Necrophilia
- Sex and death
- Sex and violence
- Eros and Thanatos
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- Death and eroticism in Norse paganism
- Erotic horror
- Eros and Thanatos
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