Eroticism resists integration into any social or state community

Evidence

Although totalitarian or authoritarian regimes may all try to ban psychoanalysis and declare that personal emotional conflicts have no place for citizens loyally integrated into the community, eroticism is an experience where individuality always prevails over generality. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 147

Categorization

• DEFINE: Eroticism as the site where the individual defeats the universal — a defining existentialist claim about sexuality.
• XREF: connects to: All interpersonal conduct reduces to desire, love, and hate as fundamental projects; Sade’s sexual orgies prefigure and mirror the regimentation of modern sport; Mass culture has absorbed the erotic outsiders who once provided irregular bliss (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Erotic desire fundamentally resists social regulation and institutions #corroborates (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406