In its psychedelic view of the West, Sexual Personae is like Mantegna's Procession of Caesar , a crowded triumph bristling with strange symbols but observing classical order and form. History moves on, but art never forgets. . . . . . In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against which our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature.
Sex is a subset to nature.
Sex is the natural in man. Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power. Without society, we would be storm-tossed on the barbarous sea that is nature. Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.