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So, we can have too much or too little sexual desire. But however intense or otherwise desire is, we can view the process of passing on our genes to future generations as our organism’s quintessential expression of its will to survive. It’s our evolutionary impulse to leave an imprint of ourselves behind when we are no longer around. It’s through the “selfish gene” that we hope to attain immortality, and the sex act is symbolic of regeneration and the transmission of life.
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© 2009 Manfred Kets de Vries
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De Vries, M.K. (2009). The play of sexuality. In: Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death. INSEAD Business Press series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-24036-0_5
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