This is the consequence with respect to bodily acts, of the celestial purge effected by Chritianity. The condition of the created being is to acquire the Creator's knowledge and power and, like him, establish oneself through pleasure. One aspect of the love act is the confusion between the gesture and pleasure. But appropriation of the world is accomplished only through the mediation of signs . So it's through substituting silence, necessary to sexual function, that christian occultation operates and becomes radical.
Language frees sex .
It is precisely this inner language that our culture does not transmit either discredited or impoverished, and it is at the heart of the family that these obstacles are at the same time the most present and the most insurmountable. Thus, the family's silence renforces the culture's silence, and everything connected to sex is sent back to the notion of transgression. Erotisation becomes pornography and pleasure, if it doesn't become vice, is confined to the domain of secrecy, lies and dissimulation. The familiar embarrassment felt in the face of childrens'questions comes from this cultural rupture. The secret, which is a component of modesty, surrounds the activities of the members of the household.