Re: Marshall

I can't necessarily refute everything that you said, but you had some great points!

As far as the dolphins are concerned, I did consider that some mammals probably mate for pleasure, but that is still perceiving sex as a physical act. My point was that they are (probably) not able to sacralize sex, or assign some sort of higher meaning to it. True, many animals do mate for life, but sadly, as far as we know, this is not some sort of symbol of enduring love, it is merely a mating tactic. Females prefer to stick with one male who can protect their offspring, and monogamous males stick with one female so as to make sure that she doesn't mate with other males. Blah, blah, blah, enough fun animal facts! All I was trying to say is that some humans, particularly Miller, may view sex as purely physical, as many other mammals do. This does not make it meaningless, it just means that he has stripped it of its societal construct. 

I'm not sure about your taboo topic assertion. Are you sure there aren't words to appropriately describe emotional sex? How about "making love"? And even if there aren't words that can truly do it justice, why does something like "indescribable" not at least begin to portray the emotions felt? 

In my opinion, we don't talk about strong emotions as much because then they would become more common and ordinary. If everyone was going around telling all of their friends how "fantastically indescribable" or "emotionally life changing"their sexual experience was, those words would sort of lose their merit. We would adjust to them. They would no longer be as effective. Sex would no longer seem as important. 

It's like the word "love." We don't just toss it around, because then it wouldn't seem as important. 

Maybe I'm totally wrong here. :)