Ep 232: Romance, Sex, Orthodoxy

“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he ‘wants a woman’. Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want. He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude to her five minutes after fruition (one does not keep the carton after one has smoked the cigarettes). Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.” - C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves This week on SOI: - What is romance? - Sex as a part of Eros - G.K. Chesterton - “'I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.’” - Sex after marriage - Polyamory - The hiddenness of soul wounds - Memory is like a vibrating string - Peterson w/ Katy Faust - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?i=1000698177286 - Aella on Triggernometry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shB6ovnjYEs Find us here: x.com/mattmccloskey x.com/michaelvaclav All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A