This last is particularly eloquent. No man desires everyone on earth. Only with such a partner can he experience the reality of the values he is seeking to celebrate, including his own value. The same kind of sexual selectivity is exercised by a rational woman. This is why Roark is attracted only to a heroine like Dominique, and why Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged is desperate to sleep with John Galt, not with Wesley Mouch.
Romantic love is the strongest positive emotion possible between two individuals.
Sex is to love what action is to thought, possession to evaluation, body to soul. Sex is the preeminent form of bringing love into physical reality. The subject of sex is complex and belongs largely to the science of psychology. I asked Ayn Rand once what philosophy specifically has to say on the subject. Copyright 2001-1991 Leonard Peikoff.