Nothing will stop sex being tragic and comic. It is above all the area of our lives where we can be rejected in our body entirety, where we can venture into the “exposed spontaneity” that Nagel talks about and find ourselves looking foolish or even repellent, so that the perception of ourselves we are offered is negating and damaging. And it is also where the awful incongruity of our situation can break through as comedy, even farce…

[Sex] is potentially farcical–no less for being on the edge of pain.

–Rowan Williams

This quote is taken from a blog post on human sexuality by Richard Beck. Read it here.

Painting by Cecily Brown

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