Erotic desire fundamentally resists social regulation and institutions

Evidence

Eroticism implies a claim of the instant against time, of the individual against the collectivity; it affirms separation against communication; it rebels against all regulation; it contains a principle hostile to society. Social customs are never bent to fit the rigor of institutions and laws: love has forever asserted itself against them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406

Categorization

• DEFINE: Beauvoir’s definition of eroticism as inherently anti-institutional — instant vs. time, individual vs. collectivity.
• XREF: Relates to the de-prioritized essay themes of custom vs. law, and to marriage-as-death-of-love debates from courtly love onward. — connects to: All interpersonal conduct reduces to desire, love, and hate as fundamental projects; Eroticism resists integration into any social or state community — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 147; The institutionalization of monogamous bourgeois marriage created the demand for prostitution — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 214 (+10 more)
• SEED: Angle: what modern institutions recreate the marriage trap — e.g., legal cohabitation contracts attempting to socialize romance.

Broader Connections

• Sexual attraction arises from socially conditioned images, not raw nature #contradicts (0.90)
• Oedipus encodes desire flows into repressive social structures #contradicts (0.85)
• Dystopia can rule through engineered desire rather than repression #complicates (0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2380