The far-right Juan Manuel de la Prada recommends a new(ish) book on the perversion of human sexuality in today’s world by a left-wing Italian author Diego Fusaro.
Fusaro explains that starting with ancient Greeks, humans saw the sex drive as something that could make them nobler, more civilized. Standing in awe of beauty brought people closer to the divine. In Middle Ages, the ideals of courtly (or romantic, as we know it today) love valued the capacity to control our instincts. Love was a way for humans to come closer to God and for God to reveal himself to humans.
We, on the other hand, have been persuaded that throwing all this away and turning sex and love into a competition in consumerism is liberating when it’s the worst prison of all. The new erotic order that we are living in turns our love lives into meat markets. Those who don’t want to put their bodies into circulation on these meat markets are called oppressive, patriarchal, sexist and something-phobic.
More on Fusaro later.
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