First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a
key, perhaps even the
key, component of the quality of being human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan
aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and
psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.