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Lust

The Role of Sex in Nature
Of course, it [the sexual impulse] is perfectly natural and all
men have it. Nature has put it as part of her functioning for the
purpose of procreation, so that the race may continue. In the
animals it is used for that purpose, but men have departed from
Nature and use it for pleasure mainly — so it has taken hold of
them and harasses them at all times.
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Certainly, Nature gave it [sexual pleasure] to encourage her aim
of procreation. The proof is that the animal does it only by sea-
son and as soon as the procreation is over, drops it. Man having a
mind has discovered that he can do it even when there is not the
need of Nature — but that is only a proof that Mind perverts the
original intention of Nature. It does not prove that Nature cre-
ated it only to give man a brief and destructive sensual pleasure.

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The terrestrial sex-movement is a utilisation by Nature of the
fundamental physical energy for purposes of procreation. The
thrill of which the poets speak, which is accompanied by a very
gross excitement, is the lure by which she makes the vital con-
sent to this otherwise unpleasing process — whatever X or oth-
ers may feel, there are numbers who experience a recoil of dis-
gust after the act and repulsion from the partner in it because of
the disgust, though they return to it when the disgust has worn
off for the sake of this lure.
CWSA 31: 485

Samyama
SaWyama is unseasonable and would be fruitless when a
force, quality or tendency is in its infancy or vigour, before it
has had the enjoyment and full activity which is its due. When

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