Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.