DUNS SCOTUS: THE DEATH OF SEX

If there is a problem, it is only logical to yearn for its solution. If your house is on fire, who would not wish for the flames to be doused? If you have a disease, who would not crave an appropriate antidote, even if there were none available. A problem always implies a solution, even a hypothetical one, and even when the solution is worse than the problem, or the cure worse than the disease – that too is simply a problem calling for its own solution.

One of the most intractable problems of humanity is sexuality and its various aspects.

Firstly, it has been essential to human propagation, and for this reason it has been exempt from any truly radical critique – except on the lunatic fringe. Secondly, it has been associated with some of the highest and noblest aspects of human nature, and inextricably intertwined with them. When purified, rarefied, and sublimated, the crude sexual instinct becomes the foundation of such laudable elements of human nature as chivalry, family feeling, masculine honour, and even feminine chastity. Indeed, many of our traditional virtues have developed in symbiosis with – or more accurately in direct opposition to – our sexual natures. To strike at sex, therefore, is to a certain extent to strike at humanity.

But while it has been a major defining force of the human condition, sexuality is not equivalent to, or interchangeable with, humanity. It remains something separate and, indeed, something that can even be antagonistic to it, especially in the toxic conditions created by modernity.

Polymorphous perversity: The
Temptation of St. Anthony.

In the last few decades, we have seen sexuality increasingly alienated from the human condition, monetized, and turbo-charged. Rather than being a vital and healthy force of procreation, it has been turned into a deathlike caricature, a conduit for “social diseases” and aberrant forms of carnality that have nothing to do with procreation. Indeed, there is an iron rule: the more sexualized a society is, the further its birth rate drops. Quite literally sex is death, and not the petite mort the French talk about, but the grande mort of nations.

But modernity itself is not to blame. Modernity is merely our efficiency, our ultimate logic, our reductio ad absurdum; that which pushes things to reveal themselves in all their truth, paradox, and difficult choices. Fascism, as the most modernistic of intellectual viewpoints, pushes things in this direction with particular dynamism, and this is the reason it is so detested – much more so than Communism, which remains depressingly earthbound to the banalities and trivialities of the human condition.

Fascism, divorced from its immediate political utility, which obviously comes and goes, zooms in with uncompromising brutal honesty on the most radical and fundamental levels of human existence, posing the grand questions. So it is with sex. A Fascistic view looks at it in a much more profound way, as something with essential flaws, rather like St. Augustine of Hippo’s disparaging view of human existence: “inter faeces et urinam nascimur” (We are born between shit and piss).

A Conservative, fearing his ability to deal with anything at a radical and essential level, slowly backs off behind a wall of cant and denial. A Communist, as a fellow modernist, feels driven to engage with the issue, but in contrast with the Fascist, sees the problem differently, as one of equalization between man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual, adult and child, or even human and animal.

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