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Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The 'inner enemy' of ascets is caused by abstention from or great irregularity in sexual intercourse
The Most Usual Means by which the ascetic and the sanctified individual seeks to make life more endurable comprises certain combats of an inner nature involving alternations of victory and prostration. For this purpose an enemy is necessary and he is found in the so called…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
Aphrodisia, eros and philia
Sexual intercourse was aphrodisia, "the things of Aphrodite"...sexual desire could be denoted by general words for desire, but the obsessive desire for a particular person was eros... Plato finds it philosophically necessary in Phaedrus and Symposium to treat eros a respons to…