In the name of safety, we have strangled the Erotic impulse in the very free thinkers who rely upon and express it most vividly, steadily draining our world of genuine power, vitality, and equality. Yet instincts never vanish; they are only forced underground, hidden from view, until they erupt with even greater force.
The price we refuse to pay today—the uncomfortable ownership of our power and responsibility—we will inevitably pay tomorrow, with interest. Society now draws ragged breaths from a respirator of its own making.